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Apple’s MagicPairing for Bluetooth fails to enchant after mischief-making bugs found hiding in the stack • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- May 18, 2020
Apple’s proprietary approach to securing Bluetooth peripherals, known as MagicPairing, has some benefits, but not magical enough to make vulnerabilities vanish. Researchers from TU Darmstadt in Germany examined the MagicPairing protocol and found that its three implementations – in iOS, macOS, and RTKit – contain ten disclosed flaws between them that have yet to be
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Stack Overflow banishes belligerent blather with bespoke bot 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 14, 2020
Online Q&A site Stack Overflow aspires to be “a welcoming and friendly place,” and to make that so, the biz has deployed sentiment-sniffing code to catch unkind commentary lest it drive members of its online community away. Founded in 2008, the Stack Overflow site depends on people posting questions and answering them, something they may
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Developers prefer Rust, Python and TypeScript to JavaScript, according to 2019 Stack Overflow Global Developer Survey 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 10, 2019
The Stack Overflow Global Developer Survey 2019 has found that Python remains the fastest-growing programming language among developers, overtaking Java for the first time. The most-used languages are JavaScript (used by 67.8 per cent of devs), HTML/CSS (63.5 per cent) and SQL (54.4 per cent) with Python rising to 4th place with 41.7 per cent.
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