Software Development

Open-source oriented RISELab emerges at UC Berkeley to make apps smarter & more secure

5-year collaborative research lab taking open source approach, backed by Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, VMware and more

New Year’s resolution: Donate to 1 free software project every month

Donating just a little bit helps ensure the open source software I use remains alive

Tricentis scoops up mega cash to help enterprises test software

Software: You just build and put it out to the world, right? Not quite, there’s a whole heap of testing involved, and there is gold to be made there.

Want to be a software developer? Time to learn AI and data science

Data science skills will become more important for coding as software is 'trained' via AI

The CSO guide to top security conferences

CSO Online’s calendar of upcoming security conferences makes it easy to find the events that matter the most to you.

Ransomware takes a nasty turn

Stratoscale shows you how to run your own Amazon ‘region’

Q&A: The CEO of Stratoscale makes the case for his company’s datacenter OS replacing VMware and OpenStack, thus transforming your servers into an AWS region

Microsoft’s new Linux option for Azure is Clear in the cloud

The state of the IT contractor job market in 2017

Trends toward higher pay and demand for specialized skills continue apace, creating opportunities for contractors across the industry.

Microsoft buys Simplygon to simplify rendering VR and AR models

Simplygon simplifies 3D models to speed rendering on low-powered hardware