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GitHub users in some regions have experienced hours of downtime from what's been identified as a data storage issue. The problems appear to have started around midnight GMT and some users are still reporting issues. GitHub acknowledged the problem and has been posting regular status updates. At 9:20am, GitHub said its restore operations were ‘still…
Repository giant GitHub has revealed Kotlin for Android is now the fastest growing programming language in the world. As the world’s largest Git repository host, GitHub has a fairly unique ability to discover notable changes in the developer landscape. Last year, Google made Kotlin a ‘first-class’ language for Android in addition to existing support for…
Apple has announced developers can now include Mac and free apps with subscriptions in their App Store bundles. With the new functionality, developers can offer a bundle of up to 10 of their apps. This increases visibility while allowing users potentially discounted access. In its announcement, Apple wrote: “App bundles make it easy for customers…
Amazon has continued its smart home offensive with a set of new APIs for developers targeted at making our front porches smarter. There are three new APIs in total – Doorbell Events Source API, Motion Sensor API, and 2-Way Communication API. Each of their names gives away their use somewhat, but for a full breakdown:…
Microsoft appears to be in a benevolent mood after deciding to make its cross-platform machine learning framework open source. The company’s Infer.NET framework is used for model-based machine learning. It was first born at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK in 2004 and later released for academic use in 2008. Hundreds of papers have since been…
Popular web-based repository manager GitLab has fixed a bug with its API which may have exposed confidential data about projects. An insecure direct object reference within the GitLab Events API made information such as private notes, merge requests, and issues available. In a post, GitLab Director of Security Kathy Wang wrote: “We discovered that this…
It used to be the case that people bought a product, used it until it wore out, and then replaced it. If it had worked well, they went back to the same manufacturer. Today, the separation of product and service means that purchase decisions are much more frequent and that ongoing loyalty is based much…
A startup called Fastai is aiming to help developers carry out AI-related tasks with its deep learning library for Python. Fastai was cofounded by two University of San Francisco employees. Rachel Thomas is a professor at the university, while Jeremy Howard is a research scientist. Python has become almost synonymous with AI development due to…
Apps developed for the Apple Watch transitioned from 32-bit to 64-bit last month thanks to the ‘Bitcode’ feature hidden in Xcode. The feature was added to Xcode 7 three years ago in November 2015. While optional for iOS apps, it was mandatory for watchOS and tvOS. Now we know why, Rather than update and recompile…