Category: Software Development

  • 3D printed ‘suicide pod’ used by a human for the first time

    [ad_1] A highly controversial 3D printed suicide pod has been used for the first time, leading to multiple arrests in Switzerland. The device is so DIY-friendly that you could technically build it at home, assuming you’ve got the right tools and, well, the necessary motivation.  The capsule-shaped pod is designed by Australian pro-euthanasia activist and…

  • Intro to Node’s built-in SQLite module

    [ad_1] Finally, in (6), we create a select prepared statement and then run it with query.all(), outputting the results to the console: $ node –experimental-sqlite physicists.mjs [ { id: 1, name: ‘Albert Einstein’, quote: “I believe in Spinoza’s God” }, { id: 2, name: ‘Marie Curie’, quote: ‘Nothing in life is to be feared, it…

  • AI startup gets green light for stock picking chatbot

    [ad_1] AI has driven the stock market into a hype-fueled frenzy, and an Israeli startup has even convinced regulators to let its chatbot hallucinate an investment portfolio on your behalf. Developed by Tel Aviv-based Bridgewise, the chatbot is set to launch later this month in partnership with Israel Discount Bank after the startup received regulatory…

  • Mandiant gives tips on catching North Korean IT operatives

    [ad_1] Against a backdrop of rising exposure to North Korean agents seeking (mainly) US IT roles, organizations now have a cheat sheet to help spot potential operatives. To understand the common mistakes, threat intel and incident response specialists at Mandiant interviewed “dozens” of organizations that fell victim to the growing trend of North Korean moles…

  • Gleam language reaches 1.5 release

    [ad_1] Gleam 1.5, the latest version of a statically typed language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes, has been published, with productivity improvements such as upgraded compile-time error messages. Launched September 19, Gleam 1.5 can be accessed from GitHub. With this release, compile-time error messages for inexhaustive pattern matching have been upgraded to…

  • Java 23 highlights crypto performance and security

    [ad_1] While the recently released Java 23 features a dozen official features ranging from a second class-file API preview to an eighth incubator of a vector API, it also comes with various security capabilities. Security enhancements include crypto performance updates and additions to Kerberos and PKI. JDK 23 was released on September 17. A same-day…

  • The challenge of cloud computing forensics

    [ad_1] As the digital landscape evolves, so does the difficulty of safeguarding it. This is especially true in cloud computing, which is now the mother of all IT complexity, with security challenges that confound forensic investigators. Lately, I’ve noticed an increasing number of people in law enforcement taking my cloud courses. They are not there…

  • ‘Cybersecurity issue’ blamed for MoneyGram’s ongoing outage

    [ad_1] A “cybersecurity issue” has shut down MoneyGram’s systems and payment services since Friday, and the fintech leader has yet to update customers as to when it expects to have its global money transfer services back up and running. The downed services reportedly include in-person payments as well as online transactions.  The Register has asked…

  • Too much assembly required for AI

    [ad_1] One sign that we’re still very early in the evolution of AI is how much heavy lifting is still left to the user to figure out. As Community Leadership Core founder Jono Bacon laments, even the very act of “need[ing] to choose between [large language] models” to run a query is “complex and confusing…

  • How do you govern a sprawling, disparate API portfolio?

    [ad_1] We continue to see a significant increase in API development year after year. A 2022 report conducted by 451 Research found that the average organization has 15,564 APIs in use, with a growth rate of 201% over a single year. Cloudflare has reported that more than 50% of the traffic it processes is API-based.…