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Splunk to lay off 4% of its workforce to reduce costs
The data observability software provider will incur $28 million in charges on the planned downsizing plan, primarily related to severance payments.
What’s new in Rust 1.67
Rust was designed to make it easy to develop fast and safe system-level software. Here’s what’s new.
Red Hat Linux comes to Oracle Cloud
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now certified and fully supported on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure virtual machines.
Privacera connects to Dremio’s data lakehouse to aid data governance
The integration of open-source based Privacera into Dremio’s data lakehouse is designed to allow joint customer enterprises to manage and organize secure data access.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux arrives in Oracle’s cloud
Old rivals Red Hat and Oracle have teamed up for RHEL-based virtual machines running in Oracle’s OCI service.
C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup defends its safety
US National Security Agency recommends using memory safe programming languages instead of C/C++ when possible, because hackers frequently exploit memory issues.
Oracle per-employee Java pricing causes concern
New pricing plan for Oracle Java SE starts at $15 per employee per month and scales downward based on number of users.
TypeScript 5.0 retools decorators
Forthcoming upgrade to Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript, now in beta, promises to be smaller, faster, and simpler.
Google Flutter previews new renderer on iOS
The Impeller renderer precompiles a smaller set of shaders at engine build time to reduce early-onset jank. Android support for Impeller is also in the works.
Canonical security subscriptions for Ubuntu Linux now available
Security maintenance service for Ubuntu LTS releases offers CVE protection and security updates for some 23,000 packages beyond the main OS.
Google pulls the plug on Optimize
Google’s Optimize and Optimize 360 website testing and analytics tools will be phased out later this year in favor of Google Analytics 4.
CodeSandbox adds Rust support
Cloud development environment allows users to spin up Rust development environments ‘within two seconds’ and access them in iOS or Visual Studio Code.
Google V8 API bridges WebAssembly and asynchronous web
The WebAssembly JavaScript Promise Integration API suspends a Wasm application when it issues a synchronous API call and resumes it when the asynchronous I/O operation is completed.
.NET Community Toolkit 8.1 enhances MVVM capabilities
MVVM toolkit updates include new diagnostic analyzers and performance optimizations for improved developer user experience.
JavaScript and Java both loved and hated
JavaScript and Java scored high as both most liked and most disliked programming languages in JetBrains’ State of the Developer Ecosystem survey. Perl was far and away the most disliked language.
Couchbase’s managed Capella database now on Microsoft Azure
Capella, earlier known as Couchbase Cloud, is already available on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.
Researchers warn of malicious Visual Studio Code extensions
Attackers could easily spoof popular Visual Studio Code extensions and trick developers into downloading them, Aqua Nautilus researchers report.
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