July 28, 2022

Carbon aims to fix C++ memory safety (and other big flaws)

C++ sucks: It’s unsafe, unergonomic, has far too much legacy cruft and suffers from gatekeepers who won’t move with the times. Enter: Carbon.
July 21, 2022

AI ethics for DevOps: Diversity and ‘Kill All Humans’

AI has a big ethics problem—and it’s down to Dev and Ops to fix it.
July 14, 2022

Devs: Prep for PQC — post-quantum cryptography

Experts say we need new key-exchange and signature algorithms, to resist attacks from quantum computing. Orgs have had a go, but now NIST has weighed in.
July 7, 2022

Devs: Don’t do DIY cryptography — Police CyberAlarm shows why

It’s a truism often repeated: Don’t roll your own cryptography! The Police CyberAlarm service deftly shows why.
June 30, 2022

Copilot's rocky takeoff: GitHub ‘steals code’

Should you use GitHub Copilot? “No,” say open-source fans. “Heck no,” say lawyers. “Yeah,” say the sort of devs who do Stack Exchange copypasta.
June 23, 2022

Rejoice, devs and all! Privacy Pass standard nukes CAPTCHAs

Apple is to support the new Privacy Pass standard, to “attest” that its users aren’t robots. Google is expected to be close behind.