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Argues JSON author Douglas Crockford argues that JavaScript, the most popular programming language, has now become an obstacle to progress and should be retired , while acknowledging that there is currently no replacement for the JS language. According to a StackOverflow survey, more than 65% of developers use JavaScript, with Python in second place at […]

Planned obsolescence of electronics has long been criticized, but hard-coded obsolescence dates for hardware are probably never heard of by the vast majority of people. Users of Epson printers have complained on social networks that their printers suddenly stopped working, displaying an error message saying a part had reached the end of its life and

HardenedVault wrote , “Later in 2017, an anonymous hacker suggested that HardenedLinux could attempt to form probabilistic associations between corpora and specific code paths, through HardenedLinux The internal discussion of maintiner believes that syzkaller, as a general framework, still has a lot of room for improvement in the production environment of large-scale QA. If GCP

A building in Zaporozhye, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant , exploded on Friday, with Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of shelling . The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was occupied by Russia in early March, and Russia bombed parts of the building during the attack, causing severe damage . In the latest incident, Ukraine’s state-owned

A cyberattack against the Albanian government in mid-July disrupted government websites and public services for several hours. Russia is considered the most likely suspect in the attack, but a study released this week by security firm Mandiant identified Iran as the perpetrator . The attack took place on July 17 before the Free Iran World

Gitlab was found to have a company policy that prohibits the use of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft’s GitHub is Gitlab’s main competitor. Gitlab says it allows employees to use Linux and Apple’s macOS, while banning Windows on the grounds that it is the desktop system with the highest share, and thus a top target for spyware,

Amazon bought iRobot, maker of Roomba, for $1.7 billion. It’s Amazon’s fourth-largest acquisition to date: Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in 2017; MGM in 2021 for $8.45 billion; and One Medica for $3.9 billion last month. Founded in Delaware in 1990, iRobot designs and manufactures military robots, commercial robots, medical robots and household robots, and

Earlier this year, DuckDuckGo was found not to block all Microsoft trackers because of a search partnership agreement with Microsoft. At the time, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg explained that the DuckDuckGo browser blocked all Microsoft cookies. But if you visit a website that contains Microsoft’s tracking program, the user’s data will be exposed to Bing

Twitter filed a lawsuit in Delaware after Elon Musk announced it was terminating its deal to buy Twitter, accusing Musk of disrupting its operations and destroying shareholder value. Now Musk has accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit made public on Thursday, saying Twitter falsely described the state of its business and key metrics about

Climate change is having a visible impact on human life. Looking to the future, how will the long-term trend of global warming affect the human population itself ? Climate change will alter the inner workings of the human body in small but significant ways, and may lead to noticeable changes in the body’s appearance. Let’s

To search Google for pages related to a specific phrase or word, users can add quotation marks. For example, enter [“wireless phone charger”], and the search engine will only show pages that contain that phrase. The official Google Blog announced Thursday that it has improved search results for specific phrases with quotes: Show snippets of

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the expansion of Instagram’s international support for NFTs. Previously, support for NFTs was limited to content creators in the United States. Now users and businesses in more than 100 countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas will be able to share their NFTs on Instagram. Meta

Theregiste reported Thursday that GitLab plans to automatically delete free user projects that have been inactive for more than a year to save on hosting costs, a move expected to save $1 million a year. The news immediately sparked controversy . GitLab issued a statement via its official Twitter account on Friday that after internal