navindra (Slashdot reader #7,571) is a professional coder and an amateur musician. He writes: Music and technology have always been intertwined and this has never been truer with computer technology. I set out on a simple quest to find a better metronome, settled for a digital sample sequencer, but ended up fascinated by the Organelle music computer running Pure Data on…
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Microsoft Announces It Won’t Be the Ones Building PHP 8.0 for Windows
Today I learned that Microsoft “has been providing support for the development and building of the PHP programming language on Windows,” according to Bleeping Computer. “This support includes developing security patches for PHP and creating native Windows builds.” But that’s going to change:
Microsoft has announced that it will not offer support in ‘any capacity’ for PHP for Windows 8.0 when it…
Microsoft Released an Emergency Security Update to Fix Two Bugs in Windows Codecs
Tuesday Microsoft published two out-of-band security updates to patch two vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library, reports ZDNet:
Tracked as CVE-2020-1425 & CVE-2020-1457, the two bugs only impact Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 distributions… Microsoft said the two security flaws can be exploited with the help of a specially crafted image file. If the malformed images are opened inside apps…
Linus Torvalds: ‘I Do No Coding Any More’
The Linux Foundation recently uploaded its video from the Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference: Europe. And there was a poignant moment when Linus Torvalds did his traditional keynote conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VMware’s vice president and chief open source officer. Honndel had asked Linus — his hair now uncharacteristically long — what he spends his time on as a…
‘Adobe Flash Is Actually Going to Die’ In 194 Days
An anonymous reader quotes Gizmodo: Three years ago, long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash would reach its end-of-life. Now we know: Adobe Flash is going to officially die on December 31, 2020. While younger folks should be forgiven…
Study suggests bright patches on Titan are dry lake beds
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in France has found evidence that suggests the bright patches spotted on Titan’s surface 20 years ago are dry lake beds. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group describes their study of data on the bright patches and what they learned from it. Source:…
Windows 10’s Latest Updates Are Causing Havoc On Printers
Windows 10 received its monthly host of security patches earlier this week, and the latest cumulative updates are causing serious problems with printers — particularly Ricoh devices, but also other models. TechRadar reports: The so-called ‘Patch Tuesday’ fixes released earlier in the week which are causing chaos are KB4557957 and KB4560960, which are for the May 2020 Update and the November…
A new catalog of infrared dark clouds
Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are dark patches of cold dust and gas seen in the sky against the bright diffuse infrared glow of warm dust in our galaxy. These IRDCs, massive and rich in molecules, are natural sites for star birth—one of the main reasons why astronomers are actively studying them. IRDCs were first detected by two early space infrared missions,…
Genetically altered human cells can vary their transparency like squid
Humans cells can be genetically engineered to produce a squid protein that changes how transparent they are, which could lead to see-through patches of tissue Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245026-genetically-altered-human-cells-can-vary-their-transparency-like-squid/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Linus Torvalds Argues Against 80-Column Line Length Coding Style, As Linux Kernel Deprecates It
“The Linux kernel has officially deprecated its coding style that the length of lines of code comply with 80 columns as the ‘strong preferred limit’,” reports Phoronix:
The Linux kernel like many long-standing open-source projects has a coding style guideline that lines of code be 80 columns or less, but now that while still recommended is no longer going to be enforced….