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The Week’s Technology News – Monday, November 28, 2022 to Sunday, December 04, 2022

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This week in technology news contains links to articles of interest to software developers, UI/UX designers, hardware developers, devops team members, product owners, project leaders, engineering managers, software architects, QA engineers, business managers, business analysts, company executives and anyone interested in technology and programming.

IDEs/Editors

Cesium brings geospatial data to Unity via free plugin Read the Article

Emacs 29 is nigh Read the Article

Removing out-of-support components from your Visual Studio installations Read the Article

Securing Developer Tools: Argument Injection in Visual Studio Code Read the Article

Two million Java developers on Visual Studio Code! November 2022 Update Read the Article

Building a new JavaScript linting experience in Visual Studio Read the Article

Programming Languages

Introduction To C Programming In 2023 Read the Article

Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale Read the Article

The Audacity of Piping Curl to Bash Read the Article

5 Easy Steps To A Simple Game Programming in C++ Read the Article

Mike Shah’s Modern C++ YouTube Series — Mike Shah Read the Article

Code Analysis Tools for C++ Read the Article

C++ template parlor tricks: Using a type before it is defined Read the Article

A Compiler Writing Journey Read the Article

How To Use MQTT in Dart Read the Article

Latest updates in Python4Delphi and PythonEnvironments in Delphi-Python EcoSystem Read the Article

Delphi With Statements and Local Variables Read the Article

Clang is better than GCC Read the Article

High-Performance Go HTTP Framework Tasting Read the Article

PHP vs. JavaScript: Comparisons and Applications Read the Article

AWS Lambda kickstarts Java functions Read the Article

Eclipse Adoptium is becoming the leading OpenJDK-based Java runtime Read the Article

What’s the deal with humongous objects in Java? Read the Article

Code Intelligence introduces new command line tool for Java Read the Article

Donald Raab: Experimenting with Java Records, DatePicker, and TableView in JavaFX Read the Article

15 Best JavaScript Frameworks To Choose in 2023 Read the Article

Java vs. JavaScript: A Complete Comparison Read the Article

Java on Azure Tooling Update – November 2022 Read the Article

Diagnosing & Troubleshooting 4 Common Client-side Issues in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL with Java SDK V4 Read the Article

Testcontainers With Kotlin and Spring Data R2DBC Read the Article

Kotlin 1.8.0 beta introduces experimental functions Read the Article

Laravel vs. Yii: Best PHP Framework for Web Development Read the Article

Snack Stack: If Programming Languages Were Desserts … Read the Article

Building an interpreter for my programming language with ChatGPT Read the Article

Selenium With Python Tutorial: Adding Extensions in Firefox for Testing Read the Article

Microsoft Graph Python SDK is now available for public preview Read the Article

Elliptic functions of a complex argument in Python Read the Article

Simulating and Troubleshooting StackOverflowError in Scala Read the Article

Libraries

Amazon boosts Code Whisperer, AI and ML tools Read the Article

Hashtag Jakarta EE #153 Read the Article

Software Development

7 Skills To Look For When Hiring An API Developer Read the Article

I’ve fuzzed parts of the GitHub API. Here are my findings (2020) Read the Article

API monetization models for software developers – A guide to monetizing APIs Read the Article

Fast and Efficient Image Labeling via an API Read the Article

Pangea Cyber wants to simplify security for developers with an API approach Read the Article

Wasmer 3.0 revamps API, memory management Read the Article

Learn With Practice: API Versioning Snags Read the Article

New Amazon QuickSight API Capabilities to Accelerate Your BI Transformation Read the Article

Akamai: Financial service API and web application attacks are up by 257% Read the Article

Introduction To API Products Read the Article

November Extensions Roundup: Kubernetes Observability, API Testing, and More Read the Article

To infinity and beyond: enabling the future of GitHub’s REST API with API versioning Read the Article

Twitter API security breach exposes 5.4 million users’ data Read the Article

Better together: Offsetting cybersecurity’s labor challenges with API integrations Read the Article

How penetration testing bolsters API security Read the Article

Principles for monetizing selected Microsoft 365 APIs Read the Article

How To Create an Effective Agile Software Development Plan? Read the Article

19 Best Agile Project Management Tools In 2022 Read the Article

New – Amazon Redshift Integration with Apache Spark Read the Article

AWS Re:Invent Updates: Apache Spark, Redshift and DocumentDB Read the Article

BugHerd Review 2022: Bug Tracking Tool & Visual Feedback Software Read the Article

Forrester: Jobs market will continue to favour developers Read the Article

How to Become a Front-End Developer [Guide] Read the Article

How empowering developers helps teams ship secure software faster Read the Article

A Guide to Machine Learning App Development Read the Article

React.JS: The Best Technology for Application Development Read the Article

Review: Appsmith shines for low-code development on a budget Read the Article

The Guide to Software Development Lifecycle Read the Article

Anyscale Platform updated with new unified development environment Read the Article

Amazon CodeCatalyst provides blueprints for collaborative app development Read the Article

DevSecOps and Digital Transformation: Bridging the Security Gap Read the Article

JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization Read the Article

Geospatial Queries With Oracle JSON Database Read the Article

AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps Read the Article

How to Use MQTT in Flask Read the Article

4 Key DevOps Metrics for Improved Efficiency and Performance Read the Article

Measure the Impact of Your Data Platform With These Metrics Read the Article

DevOps and Open Source – Why Does This Duo Work so Well? Read the Article

How Donating Open Source Code Can Advance Your Career Read the Article

Why SaaS Vendors Need to Give Back to Open Source Read the Article

Garage: An open-source distributed object storage service Read the Article

Taiga: A free and open-source project management tool Read the Article

PyTorch 2.0 release accelerates open-source machine learning Read the Article

Validating Programming File formats using Regular Expressions Read the Article

New programming tool turns sketches, handwriting into code Read the Article

Agility and Scrum According to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Read the Article

How to Secure Source Code and Protect It from Theft Read the Article

Change Management

GitHub, accessibility, and the disability divide Read the Article

Trust just enough: Veza opens platform to GitHub to foster authorization management Read the Article

Introducing Gitlab Dedicated, our new single-tenant SaaS offering Read the Article

Frameworks

What’s New in .Net 7? Read the Article

What’s new in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Read the Article

Angular 16 to improve server-side rendering Read the Article

Flutter AI Integration: Is It the Best Choice? Read the Article

AWS Glue upgrades Spark engines, backs Ray framework Read the Article

Informatica data science framework connects with Amazon SageMaker Read the Article

Meta introduces PyTorch 2.0 as it builds toward next generation of the framework Read the Article

Deno vs. NodeJS: A Must-Have Comparison Read the Article

UI/UX

Microsoft Teams just got another game changing accessibility feature Read the Article

Apple’s latest accessibility video is one of its best, but it also gives me hope for VR Read the Article

10 Key Principles of User-Centered Design Read the Article

OS Platform

How Apple can fix iOS 16’s messy lock screen customization in iOS 17 Read the Article

Top iOS Automation Tools and What Their Code Looks Like Read the Article

Apple releases iOS 16.1.2 with improved crash detection and carrier upgrades Read the Article

Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 Read the Article

Google announces new Android features just in time for the holidays Read the Article

Google says Google should do a better job of patching Android phones Read the Article

Android 13 is now available for Android TV Read the Article

Rust Is Paying Off in Android, Cutting Memory Safety Vulnerabilities Read the Article

The Linux Foundation unveils new RISC-V certification course Read the Article

Report: Apple’s upcoming VR and AR operating system has a new name Read the Article

Mastering Multiple Monitors in Windows Read the Article

Microsoft Fixes Windows 11 22H2 Gaming Issues, Resumes Updates Read the Article

Cloud Computing

AWS gets data clean rooms for analytics data Read the Article

AWS Unveils ‘AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge’ Read the Article

AWS launches new cybersecurity service Amazon Security Lake Read the Article

AWS launches DataZone, a new ML-based data management service Read the Article

AWS releases Wickr, its encrypted messaging service for enterprises Read the Article

AWS now supports natural language forecasting queries in QuickSight Q Read the Article

What AWS customers really care about Read the Article

Amazon used AWS on a satellite in orbit to speed up data analysis in ‘first-of-its kind’ experiment Read the Article

5 new data privacy laws coming into effect in the US next year Read the Article

Amazon Web Services Teams Up with Okta to Deliver Secure Access to Applications Read the Article

Confidential Compute on Azure with Kubernetes Read the Article

Make 2023 the year of cloud computing optimization Read the Article

Top Cloud Computing Trends in 2022 Read the Article

Researchers found security pitfalls in IBM’s cloud infrastructure Read the Article

Realizing the Dream of Cloud Native Application Portability Read the Article

Manufacturers Turn to Cloud Services to Improve Production Read the Article

The quandary of Kubernetes: How Rafay is helping curb cloud spending Read the Article

How to Monitor Container Memory and CPU Usage in Docker Desktop Read the Article

Snowflake 101: 5 ways to build a secure data cloud Read the Article

Docker versus Kubernetes: Start Here Read the Article

Kafka JDBC Source Connector for Large Data Read the Article

Secure Kubernetes With Kubescape Read the Article

Liquibase on Kubernetes Read the Article

The Industrial Metaverse Gets Real Read the Article

5 design principles for keeping event experiences human in the metaverse Read the Article

Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision Read the Article

The open enough, multicloud enough, serverless enough cloud Read the Article

How CISOs get multicloud security right with CIEM Read the Article

Data/Databases

Melissa’s automated data management capabilities Read the Article

Top 5 data migration trends Read the Article

Best practices to follow for data migration Read the Article

Goodbye, data science Read the Article

How to Predict Customer Churn Using Machine Learning, Data Science, and Survival Analysis Read the Article

Why Is It Hard to Define Data Science? Read the Article

Pre-Labeled Datasets Are Key to Building High-Quality ML Models Read the Article

Key Findings From the 2022 State of GraphQL Report Read the Article

When to use gRPC vs GraphQL Read the Article

GraphQL Vulnerability Analysis: The Top Threats Read the Article

DevOps

How to Keep CEOs Deeply Invested in DevOps Read the Article

What is DevSecOps? Securing devops pipelines Read the Article

Create Point-to-Point Integrations Between Event Producers and Consumers with Amazon EventBridge Pipes Read the Article

Artificial Intelligence

5 risks of AI and machine learning that modelops remediates Read the Article

The future of AI and medical imaging, from Nvidia to Harvard Read the Article

Why the future of AI is flexible, reusable foundation models Read the Article

Google’s best app of 2022 is an AI art generator, which sounds about right Read the Article

NASA Researcher’s AI ‘Eye’ Could Help Robotic Data-Gathering Read the Article

Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the Rescue of Cybersecurity Read the Article

The ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI is amazing, creative, and totally wrong Read the Article

Optimize Business KPIs by Making Effective Actionable Decisions Using Causal Machine Learning Read the Article

MIT Is Working on Self-Assembling Robots Read the Article

Hardware

What the future of AR looks like Read the Article

Top 7 IoT Trends That Are Spinning High in the Market Read the Article

Think Outside the Wallet: 5 Unexpected Places to Put Your Apple AirTags – CNET Read the Article

Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer Read the Article

Drone Technology Soars Into 2023 Read the Article

Top 5 challenges of implementing industrial IoT Read the Article

Three-quarters of people over 10 own a mobile phone: UN Read the Article

Your iPhone Might Call the Police on You for Skiing Read the Article

Security

Whoops! Researchers accidentally crash botnet used to launch DDoS and cryptomining campaigns Read the Article

5 top qualities you need to become a next-gen CISO Read the Article

Why CISOs need to make software bills of materials (SBOMs) a top priority in 2023 Read the Article

Cyber Security: How to Identify Vulnerabilities Read the Article

Gartner analysts reveal 8 cybersecurity predictions for 2023 Read the Article

Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-side encryption Read the Article

Google Messages app starts offering end-to-end encryption for group chats Read the Article

1Password announces passwordless authentication add-on for Chrome, Firebox and Edge Read the Article

Implementing Shift Left Security in the Cloud Read the Article

Continuous delivery, meet continuous security Read the Article

The Week’s Technology News – Monday, September 12, 2022 to Sunday, September 18, 2022

Posted on by davidi

This week in technology news contains links to articles of interest to software developers, UI/UX designers, hardware developers, devops team members, product owners, project leaders, engineering managers, software architects, QA engineers, business managers, business analysts, company executives and anyone interested in technology and programming.

IDEs/Editors

Grab this intuitive app builder on sale Read the Article

BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE Read the Article

Emacs 28.2 Released Read the Article

Turbocharge Windows Development With RAD Studio 11.2 Read the Article

Lota – An online ePub reader with VS Code style Read the Article

Dev Containers for C++ in Visual Studio Read the Article

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – September 2022 Read the Article

The Future of C++ Compiler Diagnostics in MSVC and Visual Studio Read the Article

Arduino IDE 2.0 brings autocompletion, code navigation, and live debugger Read the Article

What Is The Best IDE For Windows Application Development? Read the Article

Programming Languages

5 Great Posts On How To Develop C And C++ Apps In 2022 Read the Article

Linus Torvalds Signals Support for Memory-Safe Rust Language Read the Article

The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020) Read the Article

Serializing asynchronous operations in C# Read the Article

Safe comparisons in C++20 — Bartlomiej Filipek Read the Article

Integer Conversions and Safe Comparisons in C++20 Read the Article

How To Write A Program In C++ For Beginners Read the Article

Non-standard containers in C++ Read the Article

CppCon 2022 opening keynote: Bjarne Stroustrup, prerelease Read the Article

COBOL application modernization tools and techniques Read the Article

Cake – A C23 compiler frond end written from scratch in C Read the Article

Using GNU GCC 11 Read the Article

Go developers are catching on to generics – survey Read the Article

Java Is Fast, If You Don’t Create Many Objects Read the Article

The Key Distinctions Between JavaScript vs Python Read the Article

Why Racket? Why Lisp? Read the Article

8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot Read the Article

Rust programming language gains dedicated security team Read the Article

The Maze of Python Dependency Management Read the Article

How to Learn Python for Data Science (7 Ways) Read the Article

Metaprogramming in Python Read the Article

Scala isn’t fun anymore Read the Article

The Big Impact of Smalltalk: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective Read the Article

Swift language speeds standard library, reworks generics Read the Article

Method Hiding in Java Read the Article

Download and Parse JSON Using R Read the Article

Libraries

What’s New in Jakarta EE 10? Read the Article

Improving app accessibility with Jetpack Compose Read the Article

React VS Angular VS Vue – Which Framework is the Best? Read the Article

Software Development

10 Best IP Geolocation APIs In 2022 Read the Article

Data Distribution via API – Can a Single Developer Do It? Read the Article

New Hygraph API helps developers federate content from multiple sources Read the Article

How To Build An App That Performs A Whois Query Via Whois API Read the Article

Low-Code: A launchpad for API Development Read the Article

You Are Measuring API Active Users Wrong Read the Article

What Is API As A Service? Read the Article

What Are APIs and How Do They Work? Read the Article

Apache Apisix: Open-Source API Gateway and API Management Platform Read the Article

API security-and even visibility-isn’t getting handled by enterprises Read the Article

Control and Automate Your Testing with ReadyAPI + Zephyr Scale Read the Article

How to Prepare Your Agile QA team for Test Automation Read the Article

Project Quality Management: A Getting Started Guide for Agile Teams Read the Article

Terraform vs. Ansible: Which Is Best For You? Read the Article

4 Talks IoT Developers Won’t Want to Miss at EclipseCon 2022 Read the Article

WebAssembly Users a Mix of Backend and Full Stack Developers Read the Article

The Developer Case for Using Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid Read the Article

ThreatModeler 6.0 now available with features to simplify threat modeling for developers Read the Article

Google introduces new features to identity services library to make authentication easier for developers Read the Article

Low Code Versus Developer Freedom for Data Visualization Read the Article

Top Reasons Software Developers Use Low Code Development Platforms Read the Article

How to Bridge the Developer-Designer Gap Read the Article

Want to change a dysfunctional culture? Intel’s Israel Development Center shows how Read the Article

Web Development vs. Web Design: Which One Do You Need? Read the Article

How IaC Helps Relieve Development Pain Points Read the Article

10 Essential Metrics for Effective QA Process Measuring Read the Article

New open source tools to unlock speech and audio data Read the Article

8 notable open-source security initiatives of 2022 Read the Article

What is CUDA? Parallel programming for GPUs Read the Article

7 Best CI/CD Pipeline Patterns for Deploying Software Read the Article

Top 7 UI/UX Trends That Every Designer Must Know Read the Article

How to use Jira for project management Read the Article

Top 5 edge computing use cases and examples Read the Article

Three Use Cases for Syncing Salesforce and Snowflake Read the Article

What is the Best Container Security Workflow for Your Organization? Read the Article

Ironclad’s new contract platform embeds AI to improve business workflows Read the Article

Change Management

GitHub Actions Security Best Practices [Cheat Sheet Included] Read the Article

Frameworks

Best Practices for Error Handling in .Net 6 Read the Article

Arm64 Performance Improvements in .NET 7 Read the Article

How to create a custom configuration provider in ASP.NET Core 6 Read the Article

10 Reasons to Adopt Eclipse Theia Read the Article

Meta spins off PyTorch Foundation to make AI framework vendor-neutral Read the Article

Intro to Blitz.js: A full-stack framework for Next.js Read the Article

NodeJs Event Loop Explained Read the Article

UI/UX

Diffusion Bee: Stable Diffusion GUI App for M1 Mac Read the Article

After the Figma-Adobe deal, which design startups are acquisition targets? Read the Article

Color fonts on Google Fonts Read the Article

How User Interface Testing Can Fit into the CI/CD Pipeline Read the Article

OS Platform

What’s new in Notifications in iOS 16? Read the Article

You Should Enable These New Privacy Features in iOS 16 Read the Article

The 20-minute Android tune-up Read the Article

Google increases minimum phone spec requirements for Android 13 Read the Article

ChromeOS is copying one of the best video call features from macOS Read the Article

A pair of Linux kernel modules using Rust Read the Article

The Linux Foundation wants to tackle digital wallets next Read the Article

watchOS 9 is now available Read the Article

Apple Watch Series 8 review: watchOS 9, crash detection, and temperature sensors are excellent, but needs daily charging and the update is fairly incremental (Victoria Song/The Verge) Read the Article

Cloud Computing

AWS Lightsail: Custom Domain and SSL Setup Read the Article

Manage Redis on AWS From Kubernetes Read the Article

3 cost trends in cloud computing today Read the Article

The Right Tool for the Job: Container Edition Read the Article

Clarifying Misconceptions About Web3 and Its Relevance With Docker Read the Article

Tutorial: Deploy a Full-Stack Application to a Docker Swarm Read the Article

Utilizing Google Cloud to Enable the Future of Intelligent Software Testing Read the Article

Disaster Recovery With Kafka Across the Edge and Hybrid Cloud Read the Article

What Is Kubernetes HPA and How Can It Help You Save on the Cloud? Read the Article

Kubernetes Observability with Logs Read the Article

Into the metaverse: How conversational AI will build its experiential foundation Read the Article

The Real Value of Microservices Read the Article

Modernizing Long-Running Transactions for the Microservices Era Read the Article

Data/Databases

Cloud SQL Guidelines for Cloud Database Administration Read the Article

Why Mutability Is Essential for Real-Time Data Analytics Read the Article

Big data could help deliver sustainability in Web3 Read the Article

Data quality vs data governance: How they impact your business Read the Article

5 data governance mistakes your company should avoid Read the Article

Hot data governance trends in 2022 Read the Article

Cloud security should be data-centric, says data protection provider Theom Read the Article

What are data scientists biggest concerns? The 2022 State of Data Science report has the answers Read the Article

Database Observability: How to Circumvent your Weakest Link Read the Article

The Case for a Federated Data Access Layer with GraphQL Read the Article

How to Connect SuperTokens to a MySQL or PostgreSQL DB Read the Article

Datastream for BigQuery Preview Read the Article

4 Common Questions We Hear about Apache Cassandra Read the Article

DevOps

The Great DevOps Burnout Read the Article

How a DevOps Assembly Line Can Speed up Pipeline Movement Read the Article

Progress beyond on-premises: Managing edge DevOps complexity Read the Article

Finding Value in AI-Augmented DevOps Read the Article

How Is Platform Engineering Different from DevOps and SRE? Read the Article

Comparing Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps for Platform Teams Read the Article

Experts Weigh in on the State of Site Reliability Engineering Read the Article

How to make the case for increased test automation resources Read the Article

Artificial Intelligence

3 essential abilities AI is missing Read the Article

10 years later, deep learning revolution rages on, say AI pioneers Hinton, LeCun and Li Read the Article

Researchers develop an AI model for autonomous driving Read the Article

Does AI Write Better Copy Than Humans? Most Marketers Think So Read the Article

Users trust AI as much as humans for flagging problematic content Read the Article

Study highlights how AI models take potentially dangerous shortcuts in solving complex recognition tasks Read the Article

Nvidia, Arm, and Intel Collaborate on AI Standard Read the Article

Researchers develop a new way to see how people feel about artificial intelligence Read the Article

Artificial intelligence is here in our entertainment. What does that mean for the future of the arts? Read the Article

Building a Computer Vision Model Using TensorFlow Read the Article

Exploiting GPT-3 prompts that order the model to ignore previous directions Read the Article

Collaborative machine learning that preserves privacy Read the Article

Teaching Robots to Laugh at the Right Time Is No Joke – CNET Read the Article

Sharing a laugh: Scientists teach a robot when to have a sense of humor Read the Article

This robot crossed a line it shouldn’t have because humans told it to Read the Article

Hardware

Arm beefs up Arm Neoverse infrastructure platform Read the Article

First-of-its-kind 3D-printed home blends concrete, wood Read the Article

Intel says the company plans to replace its Pentium and Celeron brands, debuted in 1993 and 1998, with Intel Processor, starting with notebooks in 2023 (Abner Li/9to5Google) Read the Article

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC Tipped to Launch With 3.5GHz High-Frequency Variant Read the Article

Arm fills in some gaps and details in server chip roadmaps Read the Article

The clock speed wars are back as Intel brags about hitting 6 GHz with 13th-gen CPUs Read the Article

Google is done making its own Chromebooks Read the Article

IBM builds huge super-fridge colder than space to chill quantum computers Read the Article

Researchers create device to streamline interactions between ultra-cold computers and room-temperature ones Read the Article

Many crypto miners are shutting off rigs and plan to sell their GPUs, as GPU-based mining for most cryptocurrencies becomes unprofitable after Ethereum’s Merge (Michael Kan/PCMag) Read the Article

Security

Trojanized versions of PuTTY utility being used to spread backdoor Read the Article

Twitter Refutes Elon Musk’s Claims of Breach of Agreement Over Whistleblower Payment: Report Read the Article

How data detection and response are becoming cloud security essentials Read the Article

Hands-on cyberattacks jump 50%, CrowdStrike reports Read the Article

Is confidential computing the future of cybersecurity? Edgeless Systems is counting on it Read the Article

Report: Only 10% of orgs had higher budget for cybersecurity, despite increased threat landscape Read the Article

Researchers develop method to protect privacy and safety in encrypted messaging Read the Article

One-third of enterprises don’t encrypt sensitive data in the cloud Read the Article

Kaspersky report: malware attacks targeting gamers increase Read the Article

How to Sign git Commits with an SSH key Read the Article

Rust establishes new security team Read the Article

Excess privilege in the cloud is a universal security problem, IBM says Read the Article

US OMB releases guidance on federal agency software security requirements Read the Article

Survey Surfaces Massive Number of Application Vulnerabilities Read the Article

Vulnerability management: Most orgs have a backlog of 100K vulnerabilities Read the Article

How zero trust can help battle identities under siege Read the Article

The Week’s Technology News – Monday, February 07, 2022 to Sunday, February 13, 2022

Posted on by davidi

This week in technology news contains links to articles of interest to software developers, UI/UX designers, hardware developers, devops team members, product owners, project leaders, engineering managers, software architects, QA engineers, business managers, business analysts, company executives and anyone interested in technology and programming.

IDEs/Editors

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – February 2022 Read the Article

Exploring the Salesforce Mobile SDK Using Android Studio Read the Article

Paul Buck: Coder on Why They Chose the Open VSX Registry Read the Article

Using PWA Studio in Visual Studio Code Read the Article

Microsoft ends support for older Visual Studio versions Read the Article

Programming Languages

Twenty Years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg Read the Article

What Is The Anatomy Of A Great Windows Compiler? Read the Article

Back-end languages are coming to the front-end Read the Article

Java Concurrency and Multi-Threading Read the Article

6 Books About Delphi You Should Read Read the Article

Developing for Android 11 & 12 with Delphi 11 Alexandria Read the Article

What Fortran does better than C-like languages Read the Article

8 new JavaScript features you might have missed Read the Article

Import, Export, and Require in JavaScript Read the Article

Cloud-Native Compilation: Bringing JVMs Into the Modern Cloud World Read the Article

Python remains atop the TIOBE programming language index Read the Article

Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs Read the Article

10 Must-Know Patterns for Writing Clean Code With React and Typescript Read the Article

TypeScript and the Power of a Statically-Typed Language Read the Article

Rust started as a personal project in 2006 Read the Article

Libraries

Spring vs. Jakarta EE: Defining Injectable Beans Read the Article

10 Popular Augmented Reality APIs Read the Article

Google Releases V10 of the Google Ads API as Legacy AdWords API Deprecation Looms Read the Article

Window App SDK Ecosystem Update Read the Article

Library to send and receive using infra-red signals on an Arduino Read the Article

Frameworks

Migration From .NET 5 to .NET 6: Performance Benchmarks Read the Article

Angular 14 to add strictly typed reactive forms Read the Article

A Guide to the Next JS Framework Read the Article

Node.js adds support for direct registry-less HTTPS imports Read the Article

How To Build Web Service Using Spring Boot 2.x Read the Article

Creating Your First Vue App Read the Article

Software Development

Companies plan to spend an average of $23.6 million on APIs and related infrastructure in 2022 Read the Article

How Much does it cost to build your own API? Read the Article

Rapid Application Modernization Using Kong Read the Article

Dual-screen app design walkthrough Read the Article

10 steps to successfully implement citizen development Read the Article

My Thirty Years of Dodging Repetitive Work with Automation Tools Read the Article

Harness the Power of Digital Transformation With the Help of Citizen Development Read the Article

5 Tools Every Windows Developer Should Be Using Right Now Read the Article

RPA: Handling mundane tasks, freeing up developers Read the Article

What CTOs Say vs. What Their Developers Hear Read the Article

Does Low Code Mean More Work or More Freedom for Developers? Read the Article

From Digital Marketer to Developer | How Raden Mantuano Reinvented Himself and His Career Read the Article

Who really benefits from digital development? Read the Article

4 steps to a smarter digital transformation for your company Read the Article

How to Develop Event-Driven Architectures Read the Article

Why Sustainability in Software Engineering Matters Read the Article

Tech Highlights: Best Software For Dev Teams Read the Article

Teach your kids to code without spending a fortune Read the Article

How To Internationalize Your App’s Product Notifications Read the Article

UI/UX

Website Accessibility Testing Checklist Read the Article

Web accessibility is good for your soul-and for business Read the Article

Eye tracking reveals where people look during Zoom, Webex Read the Article

Change Management

How to Trigger GitHub Actions on Submodule Updates Read the Article

Deploy Into Azure Using Pulumi and GitHub Actions Read the Article

OS Platform

Could Unix Happen Today? Brian Kernighan Looks Back and Forward Read the Article

Apple needs to start guaranteeing iOS upgrades like Samsung Read the Article

How iOS Malware May Snoop on Our Devices Read the Article

A deep dive into Android 13’s new features and changes, including a photo picker, per-app language preferences, Quick Settings tiles, a Hub mode, and UI changes Read the Article

Android is finally gonna ask you about notifs before bugging you with them Read the Article

A Linux expert tells why she thinks the kernel is so important Read the Article

20 tips and tricks for Windows 11 Read the Article

macOS vs Windows security: a detailed analysis Read the Article

New PowerToys collection include a variety of tools to tune up your Windows experience Read the Article

Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs Read the Article

Cloud Computing

How We Built Preview Environments on Kubernetes and AWS Read the Article

Edge computing vs. cloud computing? Nope! Read the Article

Make cloud VMs your own with Azure Image Builder Read the Article

Genomic analysis on Galaxy using Azure CycleCloud Read the Article

Report: Cloud spending will soon outpace IT due to COVID-19 Read the Article

How to Share Data Between Docker Containers Read the Article

The top edge computing providers are the public clouds Read the Article

Run Your Apps on Kubernetes One Pull Request at a Time Read the Article

Multicloud Strategy: How to Get Started? Read the Article

5 tips for creating a captivating SAP Analytics Cloud dashboard Read the Article

Data and Databases

BigQuery vs Snowflake: The Definitive Guide Read the Article

Simplifying CockroachDB Kerberos Architecture With a Load Balancer Read the Article

Tools for Querying Logs With SQL Read the Article

How To Build a Data Culture: What Leaders Need To Know Read the Article

What Is Master Data Management? Why You Should Care, and What You Need to Know Read the Article

3 data privacy trends to watch in 2022 and beyond Read the Article

Changing how we approach data privacy to unlock economic opportunities Read the Article

Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution Read the Article

When Postgres blocks: tips for dealing with locks Read the Article

DevOps

How Monitoring and AIOps Delivers the Ultimate DevOps Platform Read the Article

As DevSecOps tools coalesce, IT pros ponder role overlaps Read the Article

Managing Multiple Environments With Weave GitOps Read the Article

8 Penetration Testing Trends You Should Know in 2022 Read the Article

Use synthetic data for continuous testing and machine learning Read the Article

When to Choose Manual over Automated Testing: Podcast Transcript Read the Article

Artificial Intelligence

Can GPT-3 AI write comedy? Read the Article

Darktrace on where security AI goes next: Turning the tables on attackers Read the Article

Teaching AI and robotics concepts in business courses Read the Article

The future of AI copywriting is revolutionary, not rubbish Read the Article

Hyper-Automation – New Age Automation With AI Read the Article

How AI is enhancing aerial imagery to help identify items usually recognized by humans Read the Article

Symbolic AI: The key to the thinking machine Read the Article

Workplace AI will get hella boring before it becomes life-changing Read the Article

Continuous Feedback Is Key To Taking Your AI From Good to Great Read the Article

How values-driven artificial intelligence can reshape the way we communicate Read the Article

Autonomous Black Hawk helicopter makes first flight with no crew onboard Read the Article

Quantum Complexity Tamed by Machine Learning Read the Article

Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better Read the Article

Robotics Likely the Future of Interventional Cardiology, Says R-Evolution Clinical Study Investigator Read the Article

Pegasystems aims for better customer service through AI Read the Article

Hardware

Doomed from the start? Why Nvidia failed to buy Arm from SoftBank Read the Article

How IoT Connectivity Models Are Changing Read the Article

5G is finally ready for business Read the Article

An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking Read the Article

Alienware announces x14 – the world’s thinnest gaming laptop Read the Article

Augmented reality finds a foothold in cars via safety features Read the Article

Beyond lithium: A systematic search for candidate materials for calcium-ion batteries Read the Article

AMD Finishes 2021 With Record CPU Market Share Read the Article

IBM Targets Ransomware, Other Cyberattacks with Next-Generation Flash Storage Offerings Read the Article

GeForce RTX 3050 vs. Radeon RX 6500 XT: Which budget GPU should you buy? Read the Article

Which Samsung Galaxy S22 phone is right for you? Read the Article

Researchers discover security vulnerabilities in virtual reality headsets Read the Article

Security

4 alternatives to encryption backdoors, but no silver bullet Read the Article

CISOs are burned out and falling behind Read the Article

Client Secret expiration now limited to a maximum of two years Read the Article

8 Ways To Protect Your Small Business From Cyberattacks Read the Article

Why are cybersecurity asset management startups so hot right now? Read the Article

How to Secure Your Digital Wallet Read the Article

CISA warns about 15 actively exploited vulnerabilities Read the Article

Identifying, Exploiting, and Preventing Host Header Attacks on Web Servers Read the Article

How to Secure a Previously Insecure Cluster in Production Read the Article

A sign of ransomware growth: Gangs now arbitrate disputes Read the Article

AI Biometric Authentication for Enterprise Security Read the Article

Internet

Internet of Things or Machine-To-Machine Connectivity? Read the Article

A Step-By-Step Guide to IP By Location Read the Article

How We Can All Work Together For a Better Internet Read the Article

Interoperability must be a priority for building Web3 in 2022 Read the Article

Teach yourself Web Sockets in 5 minutes Read the Article

Web3 and Decentralization: What it Means for Data Storage Read the Article

Social Platforms

To rival TikTok and Instagram, YouTube plans to double down on more creator tools, including NFTs, live shopping, and more video effects Read the Article

Workers are actually far more obsessed with Slack than Microsoft Teams Read the Article

What is Social CRM, and why should it be on your radar? Read the Article

Twitter complaint-tracking bot reveals most griped about tech products Read the Article

Business

Microsoft vows app store fairness with Activision merger Read the Article

What does the new era of location intelligence hold for businesses? Read the Article

How a Diverse Culture Drives Employee Engagement and Business Growth Read the Article

How to build and maintain a high-performing team Read the Article

Eight years into his tenure, Satya Nadella looks to diversify Read the Article

Learn the marketing skills to back up your products Read the Article

Technology News Worth Reading – Week Ending December 17, 2021

Posted on by davidi

Here are a few technology news stories that I’ve read in the past week.

News Headlines

How developers scrambled to secure the Log4j vulnerability

The first line of defense was Log4j itself. Apache’s Logging Services team is made up of 16 unpaid volunteers, distributed across almost every time zone around the world. “We do this because we love writing software and solving puzzles in our free time,” Gary Gregory, a software engineer and member of the Apache Logging Services Project Management Committee (PMC), told InfoWorld. “Overall, I think despite the horrible consequences of this kind of vulnerability, things went as well as an experienced developer could expect,” Gregory said. “We were notified, provided a patch quickly and iterated on that release. That is something I have seen in professional environments time and time again.” Read more about the team’s efforts in the InfoWorld article.

Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics

The announcement was made in a Go development blog post: “Go 1.18 Beta 1 is the first preview release containing Go’s new support for generic code using parameterized types. Generics are the most significant change to Go since the release of Go 1, and certainly the largest single language change we’ve ever made.” Read additional information in Paul Krill’s Infoworld article.

Your Checklist for Launching a Profitable App Startup

If you can imagine an app, it most likely already exists. This article, by Tetiana Stoyko, says “it is still absolutely feasible to develop an innovative new concept that works effectively, stands out from the crowd, and provides something really beneficial to its customers”. Read Tatiana’s DZone article outlining some of the steps to creating the next great app.

Biggest tech IPOs of 2021 (So Far)

In this second year of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there has still been a number of technology companies that have gone public. Some of the notable IPOs that have happened this year include GitLab, HashiCorp, ThoughtWorks, UIPath, Coinbase, Coursera and Udemy. Is your company next? Read Scott Carey’s ComputerWorld article for more companies and IPO details.

Microsoft reveals plans for Entity Framework 7.0

Entity Framework Core 7.0, a planned update to Microsoft’s open source, cross-platform, object-relational mapper (ORM), will focus on themes such as JSON and SQL queries. You can read the announcement on the Microsoft’s .NET blog post. Read additional information in Paul Krill’s InfoWorld article.