This week’s release of Python 3.9 “brings forward significant changes to both the features of the language and to how the language is developed,” writes InfoWorld — starting with a new yearly release schedule and performance-boosting parser improvements:
– Python makes it easy to manipulate common data types, and Python 3.9 extends this ease with new features for strings and dictionaries. For…
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Nintendo Plans Upgraded Switch Console and Major Games for 2021
Nintendo plans to debut an upgraded model of its Switch console next year along with a lineup of new games, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter said, ceding 2020’s holiday spotlight to rival devices from Sony and Microsoft. From the report: The specifications of the new machine have yet to be finalized, though the Kyoto-based company has looked…
Brave Browser Mistake Adds Its Referrer Code For Cryptocurrency Sites
The following report appeared on Yahoo! Finance:
Privacy-focused browser Brave was found to autocomplete several websites and keywords in its address bar with an affiliate code. Shortly after a user published his findings, Brave CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich addressed the incident and called it “a mistake we’re correcting.” Eich said that while Brave is a Binance affiliate [a cryptocurrency exchange], the…
Firefox 75 Arrives With Revamped Address Bar; Mozilla To Stick With 2020 Schedule
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 75 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Firefox 75 includes a revamped address bar with significant search improvements, a few performance tweaks, and a handful of developer features. You can download Firefox 75 for desktop now from Firefox.com, and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. According to Mozilla, Firefox…
Addressing the cloud talent drought alongside AWS with online learning
By Leah Belsky, Chief Enterprise Officer at Coursera As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds around the world, it is disrupting the nature of jobs and the skills that underpin them. The World Economic Forum predicts that the core skills required to perform most roles will change by more than 42 percent by 2020, meaning that […]
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As We Remain at Home Due To Coronavirus, We’re All in Desperate Need of Distraction — a New Movie or Video Game Would Help
The ongoing coronavirus crisis has thrown the release schedule of cultural products into chaos, as now is an exceptionally bad time to drop anything that isn’t a government check for lost wages. Jeremy Gordon, writing for The Outline: Our cultural producers — movie studios, publishing houses, television networks, and so forth — must decide whether to go ahead with previously made…
Oracle Announces Java 14
Java “remains the world’s most popular programming language,” notes ZDNet, reporting on Oracle’s release this week of Java Development Kit (JDK) 14, Oracle’s “reference implementation of the Java 14 programming language spec.”
Rolling out in line with Oracle’s six-monthly release schedule that began with Java 9 in 2017, JDK 14 includes enhancements that Oracle says will improve developer productivity… According to Georges…
Google Cuts Chrome ‘Patch Gap’ in Half, From 33 Days To 15
Google security engineers said last week they have successfully cut down the “patch gap” in Google Chrome from 33 days to only 15 days. From a report: The term “patch gap” refers to the time it takes from when a security bug is fixed in an open source library to when the same fix lands in software that uses that particular…
Python Adopts a 12-month Release Cycle
The steering council of Python said it is adopting a 12-month release cycle as it seeks to bring more consistency to schedule. In their mailing list they announced the change would mean developers would: 1. Know when to start testing the beta to provide feedback.
2. Know when the expect the RC so the community can prepare their projects for the final…
Updated iBrowse Web Browser Released for AmigaOS 3.x
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: The IBrowse Team announced the commercial release of IBrowse 2.5 for AmigaOS 3.x (68k) and an improved PPC native AmigaOS 4.x version. IBrowse was the most popular Amiga web browser of the 1990s when it pioneered advanced features such as tabbed web browsing. “After many years in the making, development has been on a roller…