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AI code developers work longer hours and don’t produce better code
Published in AI


Still think Copilot helps them

Code developers using Copilot work longer hours and produce less quality code despite thinking that AI helps.

Low code on the rise
Published in AI
Thursday, 15 December 2022 12:24

Low code on the rise


Quake with fear developers

Analyst outfit Gartner believes that spending on low-code development technologies will grow 19.6 per cent year on year to $26.9 billion in 2023 and really low code spending growing super fast.

Toyota left car code exposed for years
Published in Transportation
Wednesday, 12 October 2022 11:39

Toyota left car code exposed for years


User data compromised 

Japanese automaker Toyota and its tech subsidiary Toyota Connected have been forced to issue an apology after discovering that a contractor had left source code relating to its T-Connect services publicly exposed on GitHub.

Tech industry still favours younger developers
Published in News


Experience is a bad thing for engineers

The tech jobs marketplace at Hired.com crunched some numbers on 400,000 interview requests and job offers over the last year to produce their annual "State of Software Engineers" report and discovered that software engineers with more than ten years of experience get 20 percent fewer interview requests than engineers with four to ten years coding.

Apple has another security issue
Published in News
Thursday, 18 January 2018 10:56

Apple has another security issue


Text bomb, text bomb, you’re a text bomb

The brilliant programmers at Apple who have all sorts of problems getting a clock to tell the time have delivered an operating system which can be switched off with a text.

China sends unbreakable cat code from space
Published in News
Thursday, 10 August 2017 11:39

China sends unbreakable cat code from space


Uses the power of potentially dead or alive cats


China has managed to harness the power of cats who may or may not be dead to send an unbreakable quantum code from space.

Indian coders not so hot?
Published in News
Wednesday, 10 May 2017 14:07

Indian coders not so hot?


Can’t code to compile, according to study


Only 36 percent of Indian software engineers can write compilable code, the Indian skills assessment company Aspiring Minds says in a report.

UK finance industry blighted by poor code
Published in News


Developers just not interested

Code penned for the finance industry, particularly in the UK is pants according to a new study.

University shooting was over code
Published in News
Friday, 03 June 2016 11:33

University shooting was over code


Hell hath no fury like a “wronged” developer

The man who fatally shot a UCLA professor in his office before turning the gun on himself was a developer who thought his teacher had nicked his code.

Apple desperate to get into Android
Published in News
Friday, 07 August 2015 12:13

Apple desperate to get into Android


Hiring Android staff

It seems that Android is doing something right and its rival Apple wants to copy it.