Software Development

Carnegie Mellon hacking contest aims to get IT security talent started young

CMU says 3rd annual picCTF online hacking contest biggest of its kind; open source edition available to teachers

Linux Action Show ends after 10-year run

With Jupiter Broadcasting’s announcement that it is shutting down the Linux Action Show podcast, Bryan Lunduke, who co-created the show, looks back at its origin and its impact

9 lies programmers tell themselves

Confidence in our power over machines also makes us guilty of hoping to bend reality to our code

The Gearhead Toolbox: Dashboards and visualizations

There are an incredible number of products and services in the dashboards and visualizations domain and today I've chosen three particularly interesting projects

FedEx offering $5 and all you have to do is, gulp, reinstall or reactivate Flash

Microsoft delays tools for third-party Cortana integrations

Cortana Skills Kit was expected out in February, but it hasn’t materialized

GNOME 3.24: New Linux desktop is fast, responsive

Hats off to the GNOME team for creating a Linux environment that’s polished, peppy and includes pleasing new features, such as Night Light

The goal of a new machine

At Cebit, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is showing how it intends to reshape computing with The Machine

IBM’s bringing Watson to a whole bunch of new developer tools

Watson is coming to the financial services industry; IBM adds Kubernetes support

Realm ties PostgreSQL databases to mobile applications

Never the twain shall meet? Realm wants to disprove that saying, at least when it comes to corporate databases and mobile applications.