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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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'. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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. More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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"... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
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... More...
Microsoft kicked off a series of technical conferences this week by pledging to release Visual Studio 2008 by the end of November, making the developer IDE the first of three major Windows platform updates scheduled... More...
A hacker has released attack code that could be used to exploit a critical bug in some versions of the Windows operating system. Microsoft patched the flaw, which affects older versions of Windows, on Oct.... More...
A security researcher has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The researcher, known only as 'Cyanid-E', unveiled his creation in a posting to the Full Disclosure security mailing list on... More...
Microsoft is continuing its thrust to help developers write more secure and better quality code. The Redmond, Wash., software company is putting new code analysis features into the next version of its development tools suite,... More...
Mozilla is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine. The flaw lies in Firefox's URL handler component,... More...
Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" helps you to increase the flexibility of your server infrastructure while saving time and reducing costs. Powerful new management tools and security enhancements allow you to have more control... More...
The Free Software Foundation is considering banning Linux software distributor Novell Incorporated from using new versions of a group of programs known as the GNU operating system, to punish the company for signing a patent... More...
New software has been published on the Internet that could be used to exploit a known flaw in Internet Explorer. The code, which was posted Monday to the Milw0rm.com Web site, exploits a recently patched... More...
Technology companies Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Vodafone are in talks with human rights and press freedom groups to draw up an Internet code by the end of 2007 that would counter such trends as the... More...
Visual Studio code name "Orcas" delivers on Microsoft's vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality rich user experiences. This new version enables any size... More...
Taking the next step in its walk toward an on-demand version of its Dynamics customer relationship management software, Microsoft announced Jan. 10 that it's releasing the code for its next major upgrade, Titan, to about... More...
Exploit code for a third, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been posted on the Internet, adding to the software maker's struggles to keep up with gaping holes in its popular word processing program. The... More...
A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code. The entry for the W32.Blaster worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false... More...
As a result of the complexities of decoding HD DVD audio and video content, as well as providing a user interface and DRM, over 4.7 million lines of code went into the HD DVD software.... More...
Microsoft has taken the first step toward addressing complaints made by security vendors Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc., which had feared that the software giant's upcoming Vista operating system would harm their customers. On Monday,... More...
Search engines for searching code bases is nothing new, but this time Google did it with Google Code Search. Obviously, it only searches "publicly accessible source code" but there is plenty of that available. Specifically,... More...
Yahoo used its recent "Hack Day" to springboard its opening of substantial chunks of code to software developers, highlighted by the application programming interface (API) of Yahoo's widely-used Web e-mail. Yahoo said the Web application... More...
Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" delivers on Microsoft's vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality rich user experiences. This new version enables any size... More...
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in supported versions of Microsoft Windows. Customers who are running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 in their default configurations, with the... More...
Hackers have discovered a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and they've released code that could be used to attack users of Microsoft Corp.'s popular browser. The vulnerability is similar to a bug that Microsoft patched... More...
The Development Tools for .NET Framework (RC1) provides developers with support for building .NET Framework 3.0 applications using the final released version of Visual Studio 2005. This support includes XAML Intellisense support through schema extensions... More...
Sun Microsystems plans to publish the first open source Java code by October this year, the company has revealed. Laurie Tolson, vice president of developer programmes and products at Sun, said at a company event... More...
Detailed exploit code for a critical Windows worm hole has been published on the Internet, putting millions of users at risk of PC takeover attacks. The code, which was posted to the Milw0rm Web site,... More...
A new report from Symantec security researchers contends that Microsoft's much-awaited Vista operating system could harbor a range of vulnerabilities that will make it less secure than previous iterations of Windows. According to research published... More...
According to Gamers With Jobs, Hellgate London, Flagship Studios upcoming Sci-Fi themed FPS RPG has taken a page out of the Half-Life 2 book of bad network security. According to the report, the Flagship Studios... More...
Attack code that exploits a flaw in Apple Computer's Mac OS X was publicly released Wednesday, increasing the urgency to patch. The code's arrival comes just a day after Apple made an update... More...
Just a day after Microsoft released patches for vulnerabilities in some of its software, code designed to take advantage of those weaknesses appeared on the Internet. Most of the patches that Microsoft issued were for... More...
Microsoft has taken another step in its effort to bring Windows in the world of supercomputing, having finished development of its computer cluster operating system. The software maker said Friday that it has finalized the... More...
The "Wall Street Journal" has obtained a confidential document sent from European Union (EU) antitrust regulators to Microsoft last month, warning the software giant that a release of its Windows source code would not meet... More...
Security experts are warning Internet users to be careful where they click, thanks to a nasty unpatched bug in the way Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser handles the JavaScript computer language. The bug is of... More...