Thelasko shares an excerpt from FiveThirtyEight: Researchers have spent 50 years studying the way crowds of protesters and crowds of police behave — and what happens when the two interact. One thing they will tell you is that when the police respond by escalating force — wearing riot gear from the start, or using tear gas on protesters — it doesn’t…
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Covid-19 Is History’s Biggest Translation Challenge
Services like Google Translate support only 100 languages, give or take. What about the thousands of other languages — spoken by people just as vulnerable to this crisis? From a report: If we want to avoid a pandemic spreading to all the humans in the world, this information also has to reach all the humans of the world — and that…
Chromium Project Finds 70% of Its Serious Security Bugs Are Memory Safety Problems
“Around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems,” the Chromium project announced this week. “Our next major project is to prevent such bugs at source.” ZDNet reports:
The percentage was compiled after Google engineers analyzed 912 security bugs fixed in the Chrome stable branch since 2015, bugs that had a “high” or “critical” severity rating. The number is identical…
Java Programming Language Celebrates Its 25th Birthday. What’s Next?
May 23rd marks the 25th anniversary of the day Sun Microsystems introduced Java to the world, notes InfoWorld. Looking at both the present and the future, they write that currently Java remains popular “with enterprises even as a slew of rival languages, such as Python and Go, now compete for the hearts and minds of software developers.” Java continues to rank…
Microsoft: Here’s Why We Love Programming Language Rust and Kicked off Project Verona
Microsoft has explained why it’s pursuing ‘safe systems programming’ through efforts like its experimental Rust-inspired Project Verona language and its exploration of the Rust programming language for Windows code written in C++. From a report: The short answer is that Microsoft is trying to eliminate memory-related bugs in software written in languages like C++, according to Microsoft Rust expert Ryan Levick….
C Is Now the Most Popular Programming Language, Claims TIOBE
Charlotte Web writes: Since 2001 the TIOBE Index has been ranking top results for the search query +”<language> programming” on the top 25 search engines. “This month, C moved up past Java and entered the number one position,” reports JAXenter. “There’s a new number one. (Or, should we say an old number one?)” “Java and C were already very close in…
Developers Say Google’s Go is ‘Most Sought After’ Programming Language of 2020
Lots of developers really want to learn Go, a programming language for large systems created by Google, meanwhile most developers are sick of attending meetings, and most of those working at multinational corporations aren’t happy there. From a report: That’s according to the results of a survey of over 16,655 developers from 76 countries carried out by HackerEarth, a company with…
Inkscape 1.0 Released
Inkscape, the free and open-source vector graphics editor, has released version 1.0 for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It comes after three years in development and over 16 years after Inkscape’s initial release. BetaNews reports: “Built with the power of a team of volunteers, this open source vector editor represents the work of many hearts and hands from around the world, ensuring…
Meet Regulus, the Lion’s Heart
The bright star Regulus is very prominent in the evening sky in May. It looks like a single point of light, but is really 4 stars. It’s the brightest star in the constellation Leo the Lion. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/best-regulus-the-heart-of-the-lion…
The Many Languages Missing From the Internet
Imagine your favourite social media platform does not let you post in English. Now think of a keyboard that won’t allow you to type in your own words. You would have two options: either switch to another language or remain digitally silent. This is the reality for most people that speak indigenous languages and dialects. From a report: There are nearly…