Tag: software industry
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Slashdot: ‘Vibe Coding’ is Letting 10 Engineers Do the Work of a Team of 50 To 100, Says YC CEO
Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/18/1428226/vibe-coding-is-letting-10-engineers-do-the-work-of-a-team-of-50-to-100-says-yc-ceo Source: Slashdot Title: ‘Vibe Coding’ is Letting 10 Engineers Do the Work of a Team of 50 To 100, Says YC CEO Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights how startups are increasingly leveraging large language models (LLMs) to generate code efficiently, allowing small teams to achieve significant…
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Hacker News: Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards
Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2025/02/securing-tomorrows-software-need-for.html Source: Hacker News Title: Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines a call for standardization in memory safety practices within the software industry. It highlights the urgency of addressing memory safety vulnerabilities, which have significant implications for security…
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The Register: GitLab and its execs sued again and again over ‘misleading’ AI hype, price hikes
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/gitlab_thrice_sued/ Source: The Register Title: GitLab and its execs sued again and again over ‘misleading’ AI hype, price hikes Feedly Summary: Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim For the third time in five months, GitLab or its execs have been sued over allegedly misleading investors about AI…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Dustin Ewers
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/dustin-ewers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Dustin Ewers Feedly Summary: AI tools create a significant productivity boost for developers. Different folks report different gains, but most people who try AI code generation recognize its ability to increase velocity. Many people think that means we’re going to need fewer developers, and our industry…
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The Register: Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/biden_cybersecurity_eo/ Source: The Register Title: Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it Feedly Summary: Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there’s something for everyone in the presidential directive Analysis Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly…
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Slashdot: Hackers Are Exploiting a New Ivanti VPN Security Bug To Hack Into Company Networks
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/09/1535218/hackers-are-exploiting-a-new-ivanti-vpn-security-bug-to-hack-into-company-networks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hackers Are Exploiting a New Ivanti VPN Security Bug To Hack Into Company Networks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Ivanti has disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-0282) in its widely utilized enterprise VPN appliance, which has been exploited to infiltrate the networks of corporate customers. This…
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Hacker News: Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?
Source URL: https://www.404media.co/are-overemployed-ghost-engineers-making-six-figures-to-do-nothing/ Source: Hacker News Title: Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a viral tweet by Stanford researcher Yegor Denisov-Blanch regarding an algorithm that identifies “Ghost Engineers,” software engineers who perform minimally at tech companies, thus exposing a…