On Thursday patches were submitted for bringing Rust infrastructure to the Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) framework (within Linux’s media subsystem) by Collabora’s Daniel Almeida.

Phoronix reports:

This provides just enough for working with a prototype Virt…

Multiple employees of Samsung’s Korea-based semiconductor business plugged lines of confidential code into ChatGPT, effectively leaking corporate secrets that could be included in the chatbot’s future responses to other people around the world. PCMag r…

The ACM’s software engineering magazine Queue delves into the latest draft for “a new major revision of the C language standard, C23… due out this year,” noting the highs, lows, and several useful new features.

The most important, if not the most ex…

Gabi Dobocan, writing at auditing firm Sandworm: More than half of all new packages that are currently (29 Mar 2023) being submitted to npm are SEO spam. That is – empty packages, with just a single README file that contains links to various malicious …

GitHub, the popular developer platform, has laid off virtually its entire engineering team in India as the Microsoft-owned firm cuts its expenses amid weakening global market conditions. From a report: The developer firm has eliminated over 100 jobs in…

An anonymous reader shares a report: Back in 2019, Amazon announced Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless network that uses the 900 MHz spectrum to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It does this by creating a mesh network between Ama…

InfoWorld reports that TypeScript 5.0 is smaller, faster, and simpler:

TypeScript 5.0, an update to Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, is now available as a production release, Microsoft announced March 16. With the upgrade, TypeScript has…

Anyone have career advice for this anonymous Slashdot reader?

I’ve had a great career from 1992 to today. I’ve been a front line coder for most of that, but also a team lead, a supervisor, a project manager, a scrum master, etc.. My career has been ma…

Alex Ellis: Earlier this month, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an “organisation”, telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a …