A relatively tiny code change by penguin premier Linus Torvalds is making a measurable improvement to Linux's multithreaded performance.… The code commit has the catchy name of x86/uaccess: Avoid ...
Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...
Google's John Mueller shared on Twitter a story at ACM named Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository. It says that of the Google employees, 25,000 Google software developers ...
In the latest attack to target software supply chains, attackers managed to slip in malicious code updates to hundreds of GitHub repositories by using stolen passcodes to commit changes and then used ...
A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...
Chromebooks currently don’t offer any means to be unlocked using biometrics. A new code commit in Chromium hints that facial recognition might be implemented soon. Unfortunately, only future ...