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C++ programming language and safety: Here's where it goes next

There's been a shift towards 'memory safe' languages. So, can updates to C++ help it catch up in the eyes of developers?

January 20, 2023 by Liam Tung

Stephen Wolfram on the future of programming and why we live in a computational universe

The brains behind Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language talks about how programming languages need to develop.

November 21, 2019 by Nick Heath

GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions

If you use GitHub's online services in a country facing US sanctions, you could be about to be kicked off all but the most basic offerings.

July 26, 2019 by Liam Tung

​Meet 2016's developers, according to Stack Overflow's annual survey

In the largest developer survey to date, Stack Overflow's programmer community reveal what tools and platforms they use in their daily work.

March 18, 2016 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Kaspersky: Duqu Trojan uses 'unknown programming language'

Security firm Kaspersky says the Duqu Trojan was partly written in a programming language it does not recognize. The company is asking the programming community for help to identify the code.

March 8, 2012 by Emil Protalinski

Some new developments we may have missed this week

Electrics: where do you plug in? Our energy future and update on East Anglia hacking.

January 16, 2010 by Harry Fuller

Agile programming power everywhere, no thanks!

Following on from a comment I made in relation to a post by Richard Stobart from Unboxed Consulting last week when he asked whether Agile has done enough to promote itself, I have an additional rant to rave in this general direction.The reasons for my cogitations on this topic are that some vendors appear to think that Agile needs an occasional boost, like it’s already some kind of floundering fish in need of an oxygen boost.

September 27, 2009 by Adrian Bridgwater

Nuclear technology to beat world hunger?

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is known for its inspections of nuclear facilities around the world. But it's quite surprising to learn that the IAEA is collaborating with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to apply nuclear science to food security. 'IAEA scientists use radiation to produce improved high-yielding plants that adapt to harsh climate conditions such as drought or flood, or that are resistant to certain diseases and insect pests.' This mutation induction technique has been used for a number of years -- even if I'm discovering this today. More than 3,000 crop varieties of some 170 different plant species have been released through the direct intervention of the IAEA, from rice to barley, and from bananas to grapefruits. But read more...

December 3, 2008 by Roland Piquepaille

Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation?

Many studies have been conducted about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown of 1986. A large majority of them were focused on the environmental consequences of the radiation release. But, as the San Diego Union-Tribune asks, what happened to bugs? Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a scientific illustrator from Zurich, Switzerland, has collected more than 16,000 insect specimens 'throughout Europe and from every continent except Australia, visiting fields and forests, homes and gardens near working nuclear plants and waste sites.' Her conclusions are clear: 'more than 30 percent of the bugs collected and examined exhibited physical damage.' So what about humans? Are these bugs the equivalent of the canaries used in mines in the past? Read more...

May 25, 2008 by Roland Piquepaille

Browser benchmarks: IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari

Web 2.0, with its complex sites and rich Ajax applications, is an increasingly demanding platform for a browser. In this guide, we look at how the leading browsers measure up.

May 23, 2008 by Kai Schmerer