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Traven West

Traven is the lead author for programming and cybersecurity topics. He also dives into application development, web development, and Linux.

Kotlin 1.7.20: Better K2 Compiler

Kotlin 1.7.20: Better K2 Compiler

JetBrains has published a beta of Kotln 1.7.20, a planned upgrade to the programming language that introduces an operator for creating open-ended ranges and includes more work on the high-performing K2 compiler, which is still in development. A new ..< operator previewed in the beta enables creation of open-ended

Go Lang 1.19: Refines Generics and Memory Model

Go Lang 1.19: Refines Generics and Memory Model

Go 1.19, the latest version of Google’s Go (Golang) programming language, has reached production availability. The update improves recently added generics and debuts an enhanced memory model. With Go Language version 1.19, released August 2, generics development focused on addressing subtle issues and corner cases reported by

Bye bye! It's Finally the End of Life of Java 7

Bye bye! It's Finally the End of Life of Java 7

The end is near – just about 24 hours left– for Java 7, it's a nearly 11-year-old release of standard Java. Oracle is set to discontinue extended support for the platform officially at the end of July 2022. With the cessation of official Extended Support, Java 7 goes into Sustaining Support

Solana Blockchain & Proof of History

Software Development

Solana Blockchain & Proof of History

As the blockchain concept expands beyond cryptocurrency into software applications, improving transaction-throughput performance has become a critical area of research and development. One of the more visionary improvements in this area is the Proof of History, introduced by the Solana blockchain. This article introduces Solana and the Proof of History

Deno 1.24: Better Type Checking

Web Development

Deno 1.24: Better Type Checking

A recent upgrade to Deno, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime positioned as a rival to Node.js, improves performance for transpiling, type checking, and more, proponents say. Prior to the Deno 1.24 release, Deno internally converted TypeScript code to JavaScript using the TypeScript compiler when the --check flag was

Java 19: Even More New Features

Java 19: Even More New Features

Java Development Kit 19, due this September, is now feature-complete, and is now in a second rampdown phase. Seven features target the release including structured concurrency, record patterns, a preview of a foreign function and memory API, and support for the open source Linux/RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). With

Why is it named Java?

Why is it named Java?

When Time magazine called Java one of the 10 best products of 1995, a new American marketing legend was born. Who's to say whether Sun Microsystems' prized technology would have fared so well if its name had remained Oak or Greentalk, two of the earlier choices. We all know the

PyScript: Running Python in the Web Browser

Web Development

PyScript: Running Python in the Web Browser

PyScript, created by Anaconda, is an experimental but promising new technology that makes the Python runtime available as a scripting language in WebAssembly-enabled browsers. Every modern, commonly used browser now supports WebAssembly, the high-speed runtime standard that many languages (like C, C++, and Rust) can compile to. Python's reference implementation

GitHub Open Sources Entitlements IAM

GitHub Open Sources Entitlements IAM

GitHub is making available a new IAM (Identity and Access Management) tool, dubbed Entitlements, which leverages the company's own Git framework to parse, track and approve access to a business' systems. The basic idea of Entitlements is to use a dedicated Git repository as a way to provide a centralized

Angular 14 is Now Released

Web Development

Angular 14 is Now Released

Angular 14, the latest version of the Google-developed, TypeScript-based web application framework, has arrived, featuring typed forms and a developer preview of standalone components. Standalone components simplify the development of Angular applications by reducing the need for NgModules. With standalone components, directives, and pipes, the standalone: true flag allows developers

Making Java Better: Enhancement Proposals

Making Java Better: Enhancement Proposals

Java is widely used and heavily relied on, to put it mildly. It is a major part of our software infrastructure. Despite having a weighty obligation to stability, the Java platform has managed to remain responsive to changing circumstances. The creativity of the people who use Java is part of

TypeScript 4.7 is Now Released

Web Development

TypeScript 4.7 is Now Released

TypeScript 4.7 became generally available as a production release on May 24. The latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript, TypeScript 4.7 arrives with ECMAScript module (ESM) support for Node.js 16 as well as a multitude of coding enhancements. ESM support for Node.js 16 was

Data Science Going Mainstream: Python and R Lang are also

Data Science Going Mainstream: Python and R Lang are also

“When [Netflix’s data science team] started, there was one single kind of data scientist,” says Christine Doig, director of innovation for personalized experiences at Netflix. “Now the role has been integrated into the organization.” This isn’t just a Netflix thing. Across all industries, enterprises are embracing data science

Understand the Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan

Understand the Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan

The Linux Foundation and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) have introduced the Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan. This is in response to attacks on the software supply chain and an uptick in interest in securing them. Supply chains are appealing targets to malicious actors because they can compromise

What is WebAssembly?

Web Development

What is WebAssembly?

For a little over two decades now, we’ve had only one programming language available to use natively in a web browser: the famous and infamous JavaScript. The slow death of third-party binary plug-ins has ruled out other languages, such as Java and Flash’s ActionScript, as the old first-class

The New Features of Python 3.11

The New Features of Python 3.11

The Python Programming Language releases a new version every year, with a feature-locked beta release in the first half of the year and the final release toward the end of the year. The feature set for Python 3.11 [https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html] has

Rust Release 1.60 and 1.61

Programming Languages

Rust Release 1.60 and 1.61

Rust 1.60, introduced just this April 7, 2022, stabilizes support for LLVM-based coverage instrumentation in rustc. This provides for source-based code coverage. Developers can try this out by rebuilding their code with -Cinstrument-coverage. Afterward, running the resulting binary will produce a default.profraw file in the current directory. The

JDK 19: The New Features

JDK 19: The New Features

Java Development Kit 19, which is due just this September, has just had a sixth feature proposed for it: a preview of record patterns, for data navigation and processing. Record patterns joins five previous features, ranging from a preview of a foreign function and memory API to support for the

JDK 19: New Targeted Features

JDK 19: New Targeted Features

Java Development Kit (JDK) v19 is due this September. It has a second feature officially proposed to target it. This includes a vector API to express vector computations, which would undergo a fourth incubation in the next Java release. The other proposed feature is a port of the Java Development

Hacktivism: Social Justice by Data Leaks and Defacements

Hacktivism: Social Justice by Data Leaks and Defacements

Around the end of February, a hacktivist that calls himself JaXpArO and My Little Anonymous Revival Project breached the far-right social media platform named Gab. They managed to gain seventy gigabytes of data from the backend databases. The data contained user profiles, private posts, chat messages, and more – a lot

Apple and Meta Gave Hackers User Data by Forging Requests

Information Security

Apple and Meta Gave Hackers User Data by Forging Requests

The hackers– who may have links to cybercrime group Lapsus$ – are said to have compromised accounts to make emergency data requests on people's accounts that are using Apple and Facebook services. Apple and Facebook parent company Meta provided user data to cybercriminals last year who requested the information by pretending

Authentication is still a Nightmare in 2022

Authentication is still a Nightmare in 2022

Authentication remains one of the most painstaking challenges faced by cybersecurity professionals and researchers. This ranges from a small startup all th way to the biggest organizations. This longstanding and even fundamental element of security continues to cause everyone to have a headache. For the security leaders seeking to identify

Ronin Hack Goes Almost Unknown for a Week

Ronin Hack Goes Almost Unknown for a Week

A major hack has resulted in approximately just a little over 600 million worth of cryptocurrency being stolen from Ronin. This was the gaming-focused blockchain network used for the NFT-based game Axie Infinity. Ronin said that roughtly 173,000 Ethereum and 25 million USDC – a stable coin linked to the

Attacks of UPS Devices are on the Rise warns CISA

Attacks of UPS Devices are on the Rise warns CISA

Hackers have now begun to attack internet-connected universal power supply devices. They are targeting their control interfaces via multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities. In some of the cases, they changed the default usernames and passwords, according to an important advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)