On April 5th, 2021 with 27 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from The Record:
Code-hosting service GitHub is actively investigating a series of attacks against its cloud...
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On March 7th, 2021 with 26 comments
ArghBlarg (Slashdot reader #79,067) shares some research from a senior application security engineer at GitLab:
Michael Henrikson describes his investigations...
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On July 21st, 2020 with 46 comments
An anonymous reader writes: A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a...
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On July 19th, 2020 with 196 comments
An anonymous reader quotes The Register:
People applying for software engineering positions at companies are often asked to solve problems on a whiteboard,...
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On July 14th, 2020 with 34 comments
Cambridge Engineering alumnus Hal Evans has built a fully-functioning replica of a 1930s Polish cyclometer -- an electromechanical cryptologic device that was...
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On May 16th, 2020 with 50 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader bbsguru shares a story from the alternative newsweekly the Arkansas Times. "A computer programmer applying for unemployment on...
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On February 1st, 2020 with 72 comments
Slashdot reader SpaceForceCommander shared Dice's new annual report on America's tech industry salaries based on a survey of over 12,800 "technologists":
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On January 12th, 2020 with 160 comments
Slashdot reader The8re still remembers the Y2K bug. Now he shares a New Scientist article explaining how it led directly to this year's Y2020 bug -- which...
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On December 5th, 2019 with 71 comments
The admission comes from the author of the snippet itself, Andreas Lundblad, a Java developer at Palantir, and one of the highest-ranked contributors to...
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On July 28th, 2019 with 397 comments
DevNull127 writes: Hiring is broken and yours is too," argues a New York-based software developer whose LinkedIn profile says he's worked at both Amazon and...
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On July 21st, 2019 with 34 comments
GitLab's CEO and co-founder says there was one big takeaway from their recent "2019 Global Developer Report: DevSecOps": that early adopters of a strong Devops...
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On May 25th, 2019 with 263 comments
Robert Sweeney spent 10 years working as a software engineer at Microsoft and Netflix, before becoming founder and CEO of the software development agency...
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On May 12th, 2019 with 217 comments
Michael Natkin is the VP of software engineering at the 3D printer company Glowforge. In a recent post on the company blog, he argues that the tech industry...
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On May 6th, 2019 with 198 comments
Windows 10 is getting a new terminal for command-line users, Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference today. The new so-called "Windows Terminal"...
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On May 3rd, 2019 with 213 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Hundreds of developers have had had Git source code repositories wiped and replaced with a ransom demand. The hacker removes all...
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On April 28th, 2019 with 137 comments
An anonymous reader quotes TechCrunch:
Automotive emissions, nuclear power plants, airplanes, application platforms, and electrical grids all share one thing...
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On February 12th, 2019 with 63 comments
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from an Ars Technica report: Researchers have found a way to run malicious code on systems with Intel processors in such...
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On October 4th, 2018 with 39 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Quantum computing represents tremendous promise to completely alter technology as we've known it, allowing...
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On September 8th, 2018 with 224 comments
"Feeling like a hack is more common than you might think," writes CNET:
In fact, 58 percent of people with technology-focused careers suffer from Impostor...
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On June 14th, 2018 with 301 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Although many businesses have begun moving to DevOps-style processes, eight out of 10 respondents to a new survey say they...
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On June 9th, 2018 with 445 comments
An anonymous reader quotes InfoQ:
Ron Jeffries, author, speaker, one of the creators of Extreme Programming (XP), and a signatory of the Agile Manifesto back...
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On February 12th, 2018 with 151 comments
ZDNet reports of a security flaw in Skype's updater process that "can allow an attacker to gain system-level privileges to a vulnerable computer." If the bug...
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On January 18th, 2018 with 60 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A new "text bomb" affecting Apple's iPhone and Mac computers has been discovered. Abraham Masri, a software...
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On December 9th, 2017 with 207 comments
Quoting snydeq:
"In the fast-paced world of technology, complacency can be a career killer," Paul Heltzel writes in an article on 20 ways to kill your IT...
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On November 20th, 2017 with 27 comments
Orome1 shares a report from Help Net Security: Software developers love to reuse code wherever possible, and hackers are no exception. While we often think of...
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On November 9th, 2017 with 102 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: WikiLeaks published new alleged material from the CIA on Thursday, releasing source code from a tool...
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On November 4th, 2017 with 299 comments
An anonymous reader quotes IT News:
Fashion retailer The Iconic is no longer running quality assurance as a separate function within its software development...
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On August 26th, 2017 with 164 comments
As in past years, "Open source is professionalizing, and employers are seeking staff with demonstrable skills," says the executive director of the Linux...
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On June 17th, 2017 with 221 comments
mikeatTB shares an article from TechRepublic:
Software engineers have largely failed at security. Even with the move toward more agile development and DevOps,...
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On June 11th, 2017 with 187 comments
Salon recently talked to Jeffrey Buchanan, who two years ago co-founded a labor rights group "that highlights the plight of security officers, food-service...
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