Tag: software category

March 27, 2020

Apple has launched a new screening tool for the US in partnership with CDC (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The tool, available both as a website and an iOS app, acts as an information center for people across […]

March 27, 2020

Introduced in Git 2.18, Git wire protocol version 2 is now used by default in Git latest version, 2.26. Git 2.26 also improves configuration option handling and sparse-checkouts, among other things. Git’s wire protocol defines how Git clients and servers […]

March 23, 2020

Microsoft is previewing F# 5, an upgrade to the company’s open source, “functional-first” language that emphasizes interactive, analytical programming. The preview is available via the .NET 5 Preview SDK or Jupyter Notebooks for .NET. Visual Studio users on Windows will […]

March 19, 2020

It came out much later in March than we expected, but yesterday Google launched the second developer preview for Android 11, the next big version of Android due out at the end of the year. Despite the coronavirus disrupting just […]

March 12, 2020

Microsoft on Thursday released an unscheduled fix for a critical security bug that makes it possible for attackers to remotely execute malicious code that can spread from vulnerable machine to vulnerable machine without requiring any interaction from users. The flaw, […]

March 2, 2020

Did Lincoln say that we hate all software at least some of the time and we hate some software all of the time? He would have. Thank goodness we can’t hate all of it all of the time because, after […]

February 27, 2020

Mozilla is using WebAssembly-based memory sandboxing technology to improve security in the Firefox browser. Called RLBox, the technology allows Mozilla to quickly convert Firefox components to run inside a WebAssembly sandbox. Developed by university researchers, RLBox is a toolkit for […]

February 24, 2020

The truth is out there. When I was a kid, my brother and I made a UFO out of paper plates, tin foil and marbles. Then we got on the roof with our spaceship dangling from a fishing line and, […]

January 27, 2020

Startup Launchable, with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of the Jenkins CI/CD platform, as a co-founder, is applying machine learning to software testing. The company’s technology predicts the likelihood of failure for each test given a change in the source code. Still […]

January 9, 2020

If you’re using Firefox as your go-to web browser, you might want to update it as soon as possible. Earlier today, Mozilla rushed out version 72.0.1 (and ESR 68.4.1) to fix a vulnerability that is actively being exploited in the […]