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Developers think these five technologies will be the next big thing

SlashData's 2022 State of the Developer Nation report takes a look at what technologies are piquing the interest of the world's programmers. Here's what it found.

1 day ago by Owen Hughes in Developer

Software Freedom Conservancy wins big step forward for open-source rights

SFC v. Vizio lawsuit ruling shows the GPL acts both as a copyright license and as a contractual agreement.

3 days ago by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Business

FBI: North Korea's tech workers are posing as freelance developers, helping hackers

US government warns local businesses that North Korean IT workers are posing as US contractors to gain remote work.

3 days ago by Liam Tung in Developer

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6: Better security, more options

The headlines went to the long-anticipated arrival of RHEL 9, but for more pragmatic Linux users, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 has arrived as well.

May 16, 2022 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Enterprise Software

DeepMind's 'Gato' is mediocre, so why did they build it?

DeepMind's program is a generalist, to test the notion that over time, greater computing power will win in AI.

May 14, 2022 by Tiernan Ray in AI & Robotics

White House joins OpenSSF and the Linux Foundation in securing open-source software

Open-source software supply chain security is now a vital issue of national security.

May 13, 2022 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Security

Programming languages: Python is slow, but it's about to get faster

Python 3.11 will bear the fruits of CPython's multi-year effort to make Python a faster programming language.

May 13, 2022 by Liam Tung in Developer

Microsoft is enabling Kubernetes for Windows edge-computing devices via 'Project Haven'

Wondering what Microsoft has up its sleeve for Build 2022? Here are a few tidbits gleaned from the hundreds of sessions listed on its website, including a new Kubernetes-at-the-edge effort.

May 12, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in AI & Robotics

Want to run Python code in a browser? Soon you might be able to

Python developers make headway on the goal to run Python code in the browser.

May 12, 2022 by Liam Tung in Developer

Building a new developer workforce: How coding is helping an entire region retrain for the future

Big tech and grassroots initiatives are aiding in efforts to build IT and software development skills in MENA as the region looks towards a more knowledge-based future.

May 12, 2022 by Damian Radcliffe in Developer

Google I/O: Google aims to simplify app development with Firebase updates

App development is getting more complex, so Google is making it easier to use Firebase with other popular Google developer products and third-party tools.

May 11, 2022 by Stephanie Condon in Developer