Mike on Make:
Make: Executive Editor, Mike Senese, is leaving after almost nine years. He sat down with Dale Dougherty to talk about what he enjoyed about his job. The first issue he worked on was Volume 36, which was quickly followed by an issue on Drones. He ta.....»»
Golang"s Most-Downloaded Beta Ever Brings Support for Generics, Fuzzing
From Mike Melanson's "This Week in Programming" column: The second beta of Go 1.18 was released this week, following up the first beta, which the team writes was "the most downloaded Go beta ever, with twice as many downloads as any previous release.....»»
O"Reilly Reports Increasing Interest in Cybersecurity, AI, Go, Rust, and C++
"Focus on the horse race and the flashy news and you'll miss the real stories," argues Mike Loukides, the content strategy VP at O'Reilly Media. So instead he shares trends observed on O'Reilly's learning platform in the first nine months of 2021: W.....»»
HP wins huge fraud case against Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch
Hours after the ruling, the UK home secretary approved Lynch’s extradition to the US. Enlarge / Mike Lynch, former chief executive officer of Autonomy Corp., departs from his extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court in Lo.....»»
Why 30 out of 32 NFL head coaches are white—behind the NFL"s abysmal record on diversity
A couple of weeks after the close of the National Football League's regular season, there is just one Black head coach and one Latino head coach left in the League—Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Ron Rivera of the Washington Football Te.....»»
Microsoft to gobble up Activision in $69 billion metaverse bet
(Mike Blake, Reuters)Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is buying "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) for $68.7 billion in the biggest gaming industry deal in history as global technology giants stake their claims to a virtual future.The dea.....»»
Tesla investors urge judge to order Musk repay $13 bln for SolarCity deal
REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoTesla Inc (TSLA.O) shareholders on Tuesday asked a judge to find that Elon Musk forced the company's board of directors into a deal for SolarCity in 2016 and wanted the CEO convicted, the electric vehicl.....»»
Do CS Teachers Need To Know CS?
"I'll say it over and over until I retire — CS teachers really do need to know CS," says Mike Zamansky, a coordinator of CS teacher certifications. He was criticizing groups that instead provide teachers with scripted content and short-form "tr.....»»
GitHub Restores Account of Developer Who Intentionally Corrupted His Libraries
What happened after a developer intentionally corrupted two of their libraries which collectively had more than 20 million weekly downloads and thousands of dependent projects? Mike Melanson's "This Week in Programming" column reports: In response.....»»
Spider-Man Comic Page Sells for Record $3.36M Bidding
A single page of artwork from a 1984 Spider-Man comic book sold at auction Thursday for a record $3.36 million. From a report: Mike Zeck's artwork for page 25 from Marvel Comics' "Secret Wars No. 8" brings the first appearance of Spidey's black suit......»»
Microsoft Hires Key Apple Engineer To Work on Custom Chips
Microsoft lured away a veteran semiconductor designer from Apple as it looks to expand its own server-chips efforts, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. From a report: Mike Filippo will work on processors wi.....»»
Mozilla Actually Started Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations Back in 2014
Mike Melanson's "This Week in Programming" column looks at what happened after Mozilla founder Jamie "jwz" Zawinski slammed the group for accepting donations in cryptocurrency (which Zawinski called partnering "with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters.....»»
GameStop jumps after report on NFT trading hub, crypto pact
A GameStop Inc. store is shown in Encinitas, California, U.S., May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mike BlakeShares of GameStop Corp (GME.N) rose on Friday after the video game retailer announced plans to expand its non-fungible token (NFT) market and.....»»
MODERNA CEO SAYS PEOPLE MAY NEED ANOTHER BOOSTER IN FALL OF 2022
A pharmacist holds a vial of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in West Haven, Connecticut, U.S., February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Mike SegarThe effectiveness of COVID-19 boosters is likely to wane in the coming months, and people may.....»»
Biden’s vaccine mandates come before the Supreme Court
Do existing regulations apply, or must Congress step in? Enlarge / The US Supreme Court building in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Mike Kline) On Friday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases that could seve.....»»
Opportunities for 5G O-RAN enterprise private networks closer than public networks
Demand for 5G O-RAN enterprise private networks is expected to grow faster than public networks. Applying O-RAN to a public network requires determination from telecom operators and time for verification, according to Mike Yang, general manager of Qu.....»»
Gov. Parson Says He Believes Prosecutor Will Bring Charges Against Reporter For Using "View Source"
Gov. Mike Parson this week expressed his opinion the Cole County prosecuting attorney would bring charges in the case of a Post-Dispatch reporter who alerted the state to a significant data vulnerability. From a report: "I don't think that'll be the.....»»
AmigaOS 4.1 SDK 53.34 and AmigaOS 3.2.1 Available Now
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: Hyperion Entertainment announced the immediate availability of a new and updated Software Developer Kit (SDK) for the latest version of AmigaOS 4.1 (PPC Amigas). (i.e. after applying all the publicly relea.....»»
Will It Take More Than Open Source Funding To Prevent the Next Log4j?
"While the lack of funding in open source is certainly a problem, could funding have prevented the Log4j vulnerabilities?" asks Mike Melanson's "This Week in Programming" column. "Would funding actually prevent similar vulnerabilities in the future.......»»
Student discovers new shrimp species by chance
When biology student Mike Groenhof was making a phylogenetic tree of fifty shrimp species for his internship, one specimen turned out to be an undescribed species. The animal was collected by Naturalis scientist 18 years ago, and had been under the r.....»»
Emails show what happened before Missouri gov. falsely called journalist a “hacker”
Officials drafted statement thanking reporter, then threatened to prosecute him. Enlarge / Missouri Gov. Mike Parson speaks during a press conference on May 29, 2019 in Jefferson City, Missouri. (credit: Getty Images | Jacob Moscovitch.....»»