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Adobe gave permission to the Computer History Museum to release the source code for an early version of its PostScript programming language, first released in 1984...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | December 13, 2022
Semiconductor giant Intel claims its FakeCatcher technology can detect whether videos are genuine or deepfakes with 96% accuracy in real time.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | November 18, 2022
Researchers at cybersecurity software company SentinelOne reported two high-severity bugs in Avast and AVG antivirus products that have gone undetected for a decade...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | May 9, 2022
Python has topped software testing outfit Tiobe's programming language list for the second year in a row, as it was awarded the title of programming language of...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2022
SlashData's 21st State of the Developer Nation Report listed JavaScript as the most popular programming language in the third quarter.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2021
Google is investing $1 million in the Linux Foundation's Secure Open Source pilot program to make open source projects more secure.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2021
Technology training company O'Reilly surveyed U.K. and U.S. software developers to assess trends in the data and artificial intelligence sectors.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2021
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks Labs have identified five vulnerabilities in Mitsubishi's safety programmable logic controllers, centered on the...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2021
Microsoft security researchers are warning customers about the LemonDuck crypto-mining malware that attacks Windows and Linux systems.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2021
Programmer community Stack Overflow's 2021 survey of 83,439 software developers in 181 countries found the vast majority (86.69%) named Mozilla's Rust their "most...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | August 4, 2021
While data scientists might be creating clever data visualizations, many decision makers still don't understand stories told through data.
ZDNet From ACM News | July 26, 2021
Microsoft offers a workaround to a bug that could give attackers the ability to copy an organization's password hashes for offline cracking.
ZDNet From ACM News | July 23, 2021
One 'boring but really important' change could improve your security posture significantly. But not everyone does it.
ZDNet From ACM News | May 12, 2021
A Microsoft security research unit discovered a number of poor memory allocation operations in code used in Internet of Things and operational technology.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | May 3, 2021
Apple's Objective-C finally exits the top 20 list of popular programming languages tracked by Tiobe, but a 'dinosaur' language has had an unexpected boost.
ZDNet From ACM News | April 6, 2021
HackerOne's 2021 Hacker Report reveals a 63% jump in the number of ethical hackers submitting vulnerabilities to bug bounty programs during the last year.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2021
A new report found that the hardest and perhaps most promising work of deep learning may lie in the realm of robotics,
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2021