Rust Takes A Major Step Forward As Linux's Second Official Language
- Steven Vaughan-Nichols tl;dr: "Today, not only is Rust, the high-level system language moving closer to Linux, it's closer than ever with the next "patch series to add support for Rust as a second language to the Linux kernel."featured in #275
AI That Reads And Explains Complex Code Naturally, Like A Human
tl;dr: "Denigma explains code in conversational English. Powered by machine learning."featured in #257
The Rise Of One-Time Password Interception Bots
tl;dr: Customers would enter a target’s phone number and name. The service would initiate an automated call that alerts that person about unauthorized activity on their account. The call would prompt the target to enter an OTP token generated by their phone’s mobile app (“for authentication purposes”), and that code would get relayed back to the bad actors.featured in #256
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How Estonia's Management Of Legacy IT Has Helped It Weather The Pandemic
- Robert Charette tl;dr: "Estonia embarked on a program to digitalize government operations and planned the extensive use of the internet to allow its citizens to communicate and interact with the government." Robert discusses how various infrastructure previously set helped the govt battle the pandemic.featured in #239
Stack Overflow Acquired By Prosus For $1.8 Billion
tl;dr: Stack Overflow will continue to operate independently. Prosus is a SA based company and primary shareholder of Chinese gaming mega co & WeChat developer, Tencent.featured in #232
GitHub CLI 1.0 Is Now Available
- Amanda Pinsker tl;dr: With GitHub CLI 1.0, you can run your GitHub workflow from the terminal, from issues through releases, call the API to script nearly any action, and set a custom alias for any command, and more.featured in #206
Laying The Foundation For Rust's Future
tl;dr: As a result of the re-org and layoffs at Mozilla "the Rust Core Team and Mozilla are happy to announce plans to create a Rust foundation," planned to be up and running by the end of the year."featured in #201