Neowin News Feed for: Code

Facebook records more than 400 billion Open Graph interactions

Paul Ferson — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:01:36 +0000

Some massive figures have arrived from the folks in Palo Alto, with a huge number of interactions recorded by the service's Open Graph API, responsible for hooking in with different apps on the site. Read more...

Bill Gates and an all-star cast of developers create a video to inspire you to code

Brad Sams — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:39:45 +0000

If you ask someone if they want to learn to code, you are met with a typical response of moans and groans about how it is a tedious and boring process that will take too long to master. Read more...

Microsoft launches Modern.IE, offers up free tools to help make you a better dev

Brad Sams — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Microsoft is again making a large push to help web developers with the launch of Modern.IE to help web developers code more efficiently and is giving away three months of access to Browser Stack. Read more...

Nintendo 64 emulator becomes available via JavaScript

Paul Ferson — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:36:07 +0100

A developer has built an emulator for the N64 console using only JavaScript, allowing you the ability to access it online. Now you can relive your 90s games using only a web browser. Read more...

TextMate 2 open-sourced under GPLv3

Paul Ferson — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:07:45 +0100

TextMate's original developer has open-sourced the project. The most recent edit to the project was an alpha build of a new version, more than two years after it was called 'largely completed'. Read more...

Microsoft physically hands over Windows 8 to OEMs

Brad Sams — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:04:36 +0100

There are several ways to deliver software to clients with secured FTPs being one option but sometimes an old fashion hand-over is warranted to celebrate the occasion. Read more...

GitHub gains $100 million in funding

Paul Ferson — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:48:40 +0100

GitHub has made the decision to switch to outside funding, gaining a cool hundred million dollars from investors to get it started on its new path. Read more...

Microsoft's Visual Studio now has Achievements

Paul Ferson — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:15:16 +0000

In a rather inventive move, a group of coders have added Achievements to Microsoft's Visual Studio application in order to draw more attention to its feature-set. Read more...

Exploit code for Windows critical bug available

Tom Warren — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:13:16 +0100

Security researchers took 2 hours to reverse engineer yesterdays release of a critical patch for the Windows operating system. According to The New York Times, developers of the Immunity security testing tool wrote an exploit... Read more...

Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0

franzon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:13:33 +0100

Just 5 hours after the official release of the latest refresh of Mozilla's flagship browser, an unnamed researcher has sold a critical code execution vulnerability that puts all Firefox 3.0 users at risk of PC... Read more...

Eve Online Source Code Leaked

Marcel Klum — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:32:50 +0100

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Full source code for the client for popular MMORPG Eve Online was made available recently via BitTorrent on The Pirate Bay. Along with the torrent, the user posts a chat transcript with a representative... Read more...

Hackers exploit poor website code

Tom Warren — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:31:58 +0100

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Web designers making very old mistakes are letting malicious hackers hijack visitors to their sites, say experts. Many of the loopholes left in the code created for websites have been known about for almost a... Read more...

Mozilla patched a remote code execution flaw in Thunderbird

franzon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:39:00 +0000

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Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 which fixes a remote exploitation of a vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on Linux and Windows. The vulnerability exists when parsing an e-mail if the "Preview"... Read more...

Source SDK beta with Ep2 game code released

EL1TE — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:50:23 +0000

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The Source engine is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. Its unique features include a large degree of modularity and flexibility, an artist-driven, shader-based renderer, accurate lip sync and facial expression technology, and... Read more...

New attack code crashes Windows XP & Vista

Steven Parker — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:50:49 +0000

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Security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows XP and Vista PCs that are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the operating system. The code was released yesterday to security professionals who... Read more...

SimCity Source Code Is Now Open

EL1TE — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:02:20 +0000

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Tolkien writes "Source code for SimCity has been released under the GPLv3. For legal reasons the open source version was renamed Micropolis, which was apparently the original working title. The OLPC will also be getting... Read more...

Code Testing Tools Could Be Acquisition Targets in '08

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:52:51 +0000

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If application security has to be baked into the development process, source code analysis tools are the technological equivalent of oven mitts—making their providers natural targets for acquisition, some analysts predicted. "There's a lot... Read more...

Microsoft releases new Windows Server, Vista SP1 test code

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:45:36 +0000

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Microsoft released on Wednesday new test versions of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack, two highly anticipated technologies that are scheduled to be released early next year. Microsoft also revealed partner resources to... Read more...

SCO guilty of lying about Unix code in Linux in Germany

mlauzon76 — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:27:49 +0000

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In the United States, SCO's Linux/Unix litigation has been stalled out while the company's bankruptcy trial is being dealt with. In Germany, however, several court cases have found SCO Group GmbH, SCO's Germany branch, guilty... Read more...

Alicia Keys' MySpace Page Sings with Malicious Code

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:04:40 +0000

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The MySpace pages for singer Alicia Keys and other musicians were hacked with a seemingly new type of hack, a security expert said Thursday. Keys' MySpace page and that of others, including a Scottish band... Read more...