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A major revision of the C language standard is due out this year, report Terence Kelly and Borer Yekai Pan, and the changes are such that “programmers should not ‘upgrade’ without carefully weighing risks against benefits,” they note.
The latest standard (C23) introduces several useful...
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GitHub has announced a new Export SBOM capability that “allows anyone with read access to a GitHub cloud repository to generate an NTIA-compliant SBOM with a single click.”
According to the announcement, this self-service feature makes it easy to generate SBOMs on demand, and “the...
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TUXEDO Computers has released the new Stellaris series of notebook computers, featuring high-performance graphics hardware. The new TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen5 packs the performance of a cutting-edge gaming desktop in a compact laptop, the company states.
Featuring your choice of NVIDIA's brand-new RTX 40 graphics...
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April is internship month, and if you’re looking for a way to build your open source career skills, internships offer a practical and effective approach.
Internships are not just important to career growth, however, they are also vital in keeping open source projects healthy. For...
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The Slint toolkit lets JavaScript developers create native user interfaces for embedded and desktop applications, says Loraine Lawson, and it supports C++ and Rust as well.
“Slint is implemented in Rust, but the API for it is written in a domain-specific language called the Slint...
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Nearly two-thirds of Europeans (62 percent) say it is important that prospective employers prioritize sustainability, according to the fifth edition of the EIB Climate Survey released by the European Investment Bank.
Among people aged 20 to 29, the percentage is even higher, with 76 percent...
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Twitter has open sourced part of its code, including the algorithm that is used to recommend tweets in users’ timelines, reports Kyle Wiggers.
“The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm is a set of services and jobs that are responsible for constructing and serving the Home Timeline,” states...
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Bloomberg has launched a FOSS Contributor Fund, through which to support open source projects that it uses, and announced the inaugural recipients:
Apache Arrow — A project that speeds data transfer and analytics for data-intensive applications.
Curl — A ubiquitous tool used to interact with web...
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AWS has announced the newest version of its cloud-optimized Linux distribution. According to the GitHub page, Amazon Linux 2023 “provides a stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications.”
Starting with AL2023, Amazon Linux also comes with five years of long-term support...
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Besides the common routing protocols, the Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the longest serving infrastructure protocols on the Internet. As the number of participants on the jointly developed Internet (initially ARPANET and later NSFNET) began to grow, the manual overhead involved in...
