Day: June 20, 2020

Stack Overflow Explores Why Developers Love TypeScript More Than Python

Stack Overflow asked 65,000 programmers for their favorite programming language, and this year Microsoft’s TypeScript knocked Python from the #2 spot. So they interviewed Microsoft’s principal engineering lead for the language “to find out what about TypeScript makes it so dang lovable.” Q: Do you remember why the team came up with TypeScript, why you…


Save up to $180 on Polar’s best sports training and fitness watches – CNET

Whether you’re training for a half-marathon, full marathon or ultra-marathon, there’s a watch here for up to 30% off. …read more Source:: CNet


Great Badge Concept: A “Geiger Counter” for WiFi Deauthentication Frames

[Nick Price] had a wonderful concept for a DEFCON badge: a device that worked a lot like a directional Geiger counter, but chirped at detecting WiFi deauthentication packets instead of radiation. That’s a wild idea and it somehow slipped past us last year. Why detect such a thing? Well, the WiFi deauth attack is a…


The GMC Syclone by SVE means business – Roadshow

A fitting tribute to the OG. …read more Source:: CNet


The US Government Is Now Stuck with 63 Million Doses of Hydroxychloroquine

The World Health Organization has now halted research on whether hydroxychloroquine could be an effective treatment for COVID-19, reports NBC News, after multiple studies showed the drug “has no impact on the coronavirus.” But now that America’s Food and Drug Administration has revoked permission for using it to treat coronavirus patients, CNN reports that the…


One in four enterprises will be all-cloud companies within a year

Cloud surges, and with it, interest in microservices and Site Reliability Engineering. However, serverless computing remains an open question. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Civil rights groups slam Facebook, call for ad boycott – CNET

Outdoor goods retailers North Face and REI join the groups’ #StopHateforProfit campaign. …read more Source:: CNet


How to watch: Smash Bros. Ultimate director will reveal next DLC fighter Monday – CNET

Masahiro Sakurai will showcase the Arms fighter in a livestream. …read more Source:: CNet


Microsoft’s GitHub Offers Open-Source Developers ‘One Linter to Rule Them All’

“GitHub says it’s open-sourcing its in-house linting tool, the GitHub Super Linter, to clean up code,” reports ZDNet: Having a tool that checks source code for programming blunders and other errors is useful for developers. Now Microsoft-owned GitHub has released the ‘Super Linter’ to help developers avoid the hassles of setting up code repositories with…


Babies: Part 2 arrives on Netflix – CNET

It’s being called the greatest thriller of our time by absolutely no one. …read more Source:: CNet