Habits like testing code, reviewing each other’s work and checking changes before release can both save time and prevent ...

As the world marches into the artificial intelligence era, the role of the programmer is evolving. No longer confined to lines of code and syntax mastery, today's developers are increasingly becoming ...

A large group of organizations led by the SANS Institute has launched a new information security skills assessment and certification program for software programmers. The National Secure Programming ...

Entry-level programming roles are increasingly scarce, with junior applicants fielding fierce competition. Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, a principal architect at Nvidia, discussed the state of the job ...

“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market. By Richard Sandomir Martin Goetz, who joined ...

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A few years ago, the discussion forum Hacker News, where engineers collectively decide what other engineers should read, developed a quirk. A new phrase had entered the coder lexicon, and it seemed to ...

TL;DR: Devin, an AI tool by Cognition AI, claims to autonomously build and fix code but has limitations. Criticized for errors and inefficiency, it completed only a few tasks successfully. Despite its ...

No one has managed to make a fully free software smartphone. Open-source and free software projects have had limited success. The problem is proprietary tech with no public documentation. Zoë Kooyman, ...

In 2020, Google identified that more than 70% of its Chrome browser’s severe security bugs were in fact caused by memory safety issues. “That is,” the Chrome team said, “mistakes with pointers in the ...