Software Development

Raise Your Hand and Ask: What’s an ‘N-Body Simulation’?

Easy on the Eyes: Free and Effective Graphic Performance Analysis

Oracle sets priorities for Java 9 bug fixes

Only P1 or P2 bugs that are critical and can be fixed before the July 27 release date will be addressed; all others will be deferred for now

Oracle sets priorities for Java 9 bug fixes

Speeding toward the Java 9 release date, Oracle will address only the highest priority bugs before July 27

PyPy powers up Python 3.5

Latest version of the just-in-time compiler can run Python 3.5 scripts with asynchronous syntax and bolsters support for 2.x apps that use C-accelerated modules

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10

Abusing users via in-OS ads, secretive monitoring, and iffy upgrades is a bad strategy, especially given the doubts fostered by Windows 8 and Vista

Pwn2Own hacking contest ends with two virtual machine escapes

Two teams of researchers chain multiple vulnerabilities together to escape from a guest OS running inside a VMware Workstation virtual machine

Apple’s Swift cracks RedMonk’s top 15 in record time

Rust, Go, and PowerShell also gather steam in the analyst firm's biannual language rankings

IBM chases Google, Microsoft with Kubernetes in the cloud

IBM follows Google and Microsoft in offering hosted Kubernetes as a service, with direct access to the container orchestration system's APIs

C# 7 in depth : Exploring local functions

Local functions enable you to define a function within the scope of another method to help in promoting encapsulation and bring local variables into scope