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SAGE - Computer of the Cold War
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (274+ words) A research lab was founded in 1951 to create the new system. Known as Project Lincoln and then the Lincoln Laboratory, it drew on developments from other research centres. In particular MIT supplied the computer hardware in the form of Whirlwind…...
Linux Demonstrates That Bugs Can Hide For 20 years!
22+ hour, 16+ min ago (163+ words) A very nice analysis of Linux commits reveals some interesting things about bugs - and how long they take to fix isn't the most interesting." As interesting as the actual time taken is, it seems that we are getting better at…...
Deno 2.6 Adds NPM And JSR Tool
2+ week, 4+ day ago (270+ words) Deno 2.6 has been released with a new tool, dx, that is an equivalent to npx and is a way to run binaries from npm and JSR packages. Deno is built in Rust, and is described as secure by default as…...
Codacy Releases AI Risk Reduction Tool
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (390+ words) Codacy has launched two new products to help control genAI coding." AI Risk Hub and AI Reviewer form a code compliance suite that organizations can use for governance of AI-generated code and smart, context-aware code reviews." Codacy is best known…...
Why Dev Teams See AI Phishing Attacks as a Major Supply Chain Risk
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (872+ words) AI phishing is the use of generative technologies to create hyper-personalized, contextually accurate, and highly convincing social engineering attacks that compromise human credentials and trust. We look at what the risks are and provide some pointers for introducing controls and…...
Secure APIs (Manning)
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (169+ words) Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. In this book Jos" Haro Peralta shows reliable methods you can use to…...
Codacy Provides Free AI- Risk Assessment
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (553+ words) Codeacy'has launched a free benchmarking survey to help engineering teams measure the risk profile of their AI coding workflows when using'tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude and compare it against the industry standard.' Codacy is know for its automated…...
Join The Protest Against The Closing Of Android
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (286+ words) It is taking a surprisingly long time for the importance of the move to effectively close Android to programmers not vetted by Google to sink in. It is effectively a checkmate move to thwart the deregulation of the Play Store....
Scouting America Launches AI And Cybersecurity Badges
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (320+ words) Scouting America, the organization formerly known in the U.S.A. as the Boy Scouts, has announced two new merit badges in artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. The badges are available through the Scouts BSA (Boy Scouts of America) program." Scouting America say…...
Apple Extends Bug Bounty Program
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (355+ words) At the Hexacon offensive security conference in Paris last week,Ivan Krsti, Apple vice president of security engineering and architecture announced a new maximum payout of $2 million in Apple's Security Bounty Program for a chain of software exploits that could…...