Software Stories

Software Update Makes HDR Content 'Unwatchable' On Roku TVs 28
Google Play Sees 47% Decline In Apps Since Start of Last Year 69
Google Is Killing Software Support For Early Nest Thermostats 39
AI Compute Costs Drive Shift To Usage-Based Software Pricing 25
Cursor AI's Own Support Bot Hallucinated Its Usage Policy 9
Teen Coder Shuts Down Open Source Mac App Whisky, Citing Harm To Paid Apps 56
Over 100 Public Software Companies Getting 'Squeezed' by AI, Study Finds 37
Companies Are Slashing Their SaaS Spends, UBS Says 55
Vibe Coded AI App Generates Recipes With Very Few Guardrails 76
Zelle Is Shutting Down Its App 18
'Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia' 85
Microsoft's Many Outlooks Are Confusing Users 64
Software Maker SAP Becomes Europe's Largest Company 34
FaunaDB Shuts Down But Hints At Open Source Future 13
VW's Cheapest EV Is First To Use Rivian Software 64
Dutch Parliament Calls For End To Dependence On US Software Companies 106
Software Startup Rippling Sues Competitor Deel, Claiming a Spy Carried Out 'Corporate Espionage' 10
GIMP 3.0 Released 52
Apple Set To Unveil Boldest Software Redesign In Years Across Entire Ecosystem 138
New Zealand's $16 Billion Public Health System Runs on a Single Excel Sheet 95
Asana CEO Announces Retirement, Stock Plummets 25% 19
COSMIC Desktop Alpha 6 Released 29
An Appeals Court May Kill a GNU GPL Software License 74
'My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation' 85
Dutch Software Firm Bird To Leave Europe Due To Onerous Regulations 33
Software Engineering Job Openings Hit Five-Year Low 61
Microsoft Reminds Admins To Prepare For WSUS Driver Sync Deprecation 35
'Uber For Armed Guards' Rushes To Market 72
The Future of GPLv3 Hangs In the Balance 66
Software Flaw Exposes Millions of Subarus, Rivers of Driver Data 47
The 'Super Bowl for Nerds': Scenes from the Microsoft Excel World Championship 28
Governments Call For Spyware Regulations In UN Security Council Meeting 13
Software Revenue Lags Despite Tech Giants' $292 Billion AI Spend 69
RIP Delicious Library 37
Musi Fans Refuse To Update iPhones Until Apple Unblocks Controversial App 103
Twenty Is Building an Open Source Alternative To Salesforce 22
The Team Behind GitHub's 'Atom' IDE Build a Cross-Platform, AI-Optional 'Zed Editor' 29
Europe's Largest Local Authority Slammed For 'Poorest' ERP Rollout Ever 71
Even Microsoft Notepad Is Getting AI Text Editing Now 78
'Just Have AI Build an App For That' 75
Pixel Phones Are Getting an Actual Weather App In 2024 44
Android 16 Will Launch Earlier Than Usual 11
Siemens To Buy Altair For $10.6 Billion In Digital Portfolio Push 10
Can the EU Hold Software Makers Liable For Negligence? 132
Delta Sues CrowdStrike Over Software Update That Prompted Mass Flight Disruptions 78
JetBrains Offers Free Use of WebStorm and Rider IDEs 13
Adobe Made Its Painting App Completely Free To Take On Procreate 27
Encrypted Chat App 'Session' Leaves Australia After Visit From Police 87
Google's NotebookLM Now Lets You Customize Its AI Podcasts 9
Samsung's 'One UI' Is Expanding To All of Its Consumer Devices 24
Enel X Way's JuiceBox EV Chargers About To Lose All Connectivity Features 101
Car Software Patches Are Over 20% of Recalls, Study Finds 73
CISA Boss: Makers of Insecure Software Are the Real Cyber Villains 120
Patents For Software and Genetic Code Could Be Revived By Two Bills In Congress 66
IBM Acquires Kubernetes Cost Optimization Startup Kubecost 9
Linus Torvalds Muses About Maintainer Gray Hairs, Next 'King of Linux' 45
Can AI Really Replace Salesforce and Workday? 67
Android Earthquake Alerts Now Available Across All 50 States, 6 US Territories 29
The Search For the Face Behind Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 56
How Do You Define 'Open Source AI'? 37
Ryzen 9 9950X Performs 16% Faster On Intel-Optimized Linux Distro 21
Sonos CEO Says the Old App Can't Be Rereleased 106
Smart Sous Vide Cooker To Start Charging Monthly Fee For 10-Year-Old Companion App 122
Intel and Karma Partner To Develop Software-Defined Car Architecture 53
Deep-Live-Cam Goes Viral, Allowing Anyone To Become a Digital Doppelganger 17
Agile is Killing Software Innovation, Says Moxie Marlinspike 184
Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped 98
Sonos Delays Two New Products As It Races To Fix Buggy App 24
macOS Sequoia Makes It Harder To Run Apps That Aren't Properly Signed or Notarized 82
Cyberattack Knocks Mobile Guardian MDM Offline, Wipes Thousands of Student Devices 17
WordStar 7, the Last Ever DOS Version, Is Re-Released For Free 57
Mac and Windows Users Infected By Software Updates Delivered Over Hacked ISP 68
Bending Spoons Buys File Sharing Service WeTransfer 9
Switzerland Now Requires All Government Software To Be Open Source 60
Little-Known Tool Is Giving Instant Access To Vast Amounts of Homebuyer Data 98
OW2: 'The European Union Must Keep Funding Free Software' 15
Linus Torvalds Says RISC-V Will Make the Same Mistakes As ARM and x86 73
Nike Is Killing the App for Its $350 Self-Tying Sneakers 102
Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect Co-Creator, Dies At 76 56
Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Tracked Sex Toy Shoppers With 'Recording In Real Time' Software 36
Mechanic's Viral TikTok Highlights Right To Repair Issues With Newer Car Models 71
Slack Will Begin Deleting Older Content From Free Workspaces 18
X Window System Turns 40 52
Plan for New Accounting Rules on Software Costs Moves Forward 35
KDE Plasma 6.1 Released 42
Waymo Issues Software and Mapping Recall After Robotaxi Crashes Into a Telephone Pole 69
Boeing Passenger Jet Nearly Crashes Due To Software Glitch 106
VMware Customers May Stay, But Broadcom Could Face Backlash 'For Years To Come' 25
Study Finds 268% Higher Failure Rates For Agile Software Projects 265
Popular Mac App Bartender's New Owner Has Burnt Years of Good-Will With a Lack of Transparency 25
Russia Mulling Charging Companies To Use Foreign Software 34
VMware Giving Away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro Free For Personal Use 90
Lightweight Dillo Browser Resurrected: TLS But No JavaScript 39
Ten Years Ago Microsoft Bought Nokia's Phone Unit, Then Killed It As a Tax Write-Off 82
Systemd Announces 'run0' Sudo Alternative 320
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 78
Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville 67
Android Gets a New Software-Based AV1 Decoder 13
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash 19
Broadcom Throws VMware Customers On Perpetual Licenses a Lifeline 40
Framework's Software and Firmware Have Been a Mess 18
VMS Software Prunes OpenVMS Hobbyist Program 60
Rickroll Meme Immortalized In Custom ASIC That Includes 164 Hardcoded Programs 9
Developer Hacks Denuvo DRM After Six Months of Detective Work and 2,000 Hooks 37
Google Brings Keyboard Shortcuts, Custom Mouse Buttons To ChromeOS 15
Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps 37
Proxmox Import Wizard Makes for Easy VMware VM Migrations 39
'Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab' 120
Software Industry Calls for More UK Government Support 47
Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event For June 10 24
Broadcom Is 'Holding the Sector To Ransom' With VMware License Changes, Claims CISPE 110
Cloud Software Group Snubs GPL Obligations, Say Critics 31
Motorola Spoiled a Good Budget Phone With Bloatware 56
Formula 1 Chief Appalled To Find Team Using Excel To Manage 20,000 Car Parts 187
Cognition Emerges From Stealth To Launch AI Software Engineer 'Devin' 95
Trying Out Microsoft's Pre-Release OS/2 2.0 98
Ethereum Network Completes Cost-Cutting 'Dencun' Software Upgrade 15
Apple Releases visionOS 1.1 With Improvements To Persona, EyeSight, Virtual Keyboard and More 26
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36
Court Orders Maker of Pegasus Spyware To Hand Over Code To WhatsApp 53
Self-Pay Gas Station Pumps Break Across NZ As Software Can't Handle Leap Day 92
KDE Plasma 6 Released 35
Firefly Software Snafu Sends Lockheed Satellite on Short-Lived Space Safari 25
New Bill Would Let Defendants Inspect Algorithms Used Against Them In Court 47
VMware Admits Sweeping Broadcom Changes Are Worrying Customers 79
Waymo Recalls and Updates Robotaxi Software After Two Cars Crashed 41
Superlist is the New Wunderlist, After Microsoft Killed the Original 18
John Walker, Founder of Autodesk, Dies At 74 19
Apple Officially Splits iTunes For Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps 31
OpenAI Developing Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks 27
Apple Vision Pro To Launch With Over 600 Apps and Games 83
Microsoft Seeks Rust Developers To Rewrite Core C# Code 77
Dell Terminates Distribution Deal With VMware After Broadcom Acquisition 38
After 32 Years, One of the Net's Oldest Software Archives Is Shutting Down 42
Fujitsu is Sorry That Its Software Helped Send Innocent People To Prison 143
'Technical Glitch' In Payroll Software Sparks Riots In Papua New Guinea 40
Broadcom Ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers 70
Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 135
OpenAI Launches New Store For Users To Share Custom Chatbots 8
Unity Software Cutting 25% of Staff In 'Company Reset' Continuation 25
Ivanti Warns of Critical Vulnerability In Its Popular Line of Endpoint Protection Software 19
Tesla's First Smart Home Partner Is Samsung SmartThings 21
Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor 24
What Comes After Open Source? Bruce Perens Is Working On It 89
The Beauty of Finished Software 174
Remembering 'The Tech That Died in 2023' 117
Meet Kosmik, a Visual Canvas With Built-In PDF Reader and Web Browser 10
Rite Aid Banned From Using Facial Recognition Software 60
Accenture Chief Says Most Companies Not Ready for AI Rollout 33
IBM To Buy Software AG's Enterprise Integration Platforms For $2.3 Billion 11
Study Shows 38% of Java Apps Still Affected By Log4Shell 25
Broadcom Is Killing Off VMware Perpetual Licenses, Strong-Arming Users Onto Subscriptions 196
NotePad++ 20th Anniversary Edition Includes New 'Multi-Edit' Feature 56
Unity Software To Cut 3.8% of Staff In 'Company Reset' 45
Broadcom Lays Off VMware Employees After Closing Its $69 Billion Acquisition 51
Meta's Head of Augmented Reality Software Stepping Down 8
'Make It Real' AI Prototype Turns Drawings Into Working Software 50
Apple Delays Work on Next Year's iPhone, Mac Software To Fix Bugs 74
VW Group's Troubled Cariad Software Division To Lay Off 2,000 Workers 34
Windows 11 Adds Native Support For RAR, 7-Zip, Tar Archive File Formats 85
Google Can Turn ANC Earbuds Into a Heart Rate Monitor With No Extra Hardware 20
Mazda's DMCA Takedown Kills a Hobbyist's Smart Car API Tool 28
Tesla Releases Official API Documentation To Support Third-Party Apps 7
Rebuilt Microsoft Teams App Promises Twice the Speed, Half the RAM Usage 121
Unity Dev Group Dissolves After 13 Years Over 'Completely Eroded' Company Trust 23
Apple Releases OS Updates For iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and HomePod 13
Apple Will Update iPhone 12 in France After Regulators Said It Emitted Too Much Radiation 46
GitHub Alienates Developers By Force Feeding Them AI Recommendations 27
Lockheed Risks $800 Million Withheld Over New F-35 Software 141
Dennis Austin, the Software Developer of PowerPoint, Dies At 76 29
China State-Backed Firm Apologizes For 'Home Developed' Software Based On Microsoft Source Code 44
The Future of Open Source is Still Very Much in Flux 49
Apple 'Punishing' iPad Pro Buyers With New Pencil Software Lockdown 73
NYC Subway Using AI To Track Fare Evasion 61
Meta Is Planning To Let People In the EU Download Apps Through Facebook 28
WhatsApp Kills Off the Electron-Based Desktop App 37
PostgreSQL Reconsiders Its Process-Based Model 54
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Tips For Creating Effective Documentation? 108
Apple Accidentally Releases iOS 17 Developer Beta To the Public 13
Apple Announces macOS Sonoma With Desktop Widgets and Game Mode 23
Apple Announces VisionOS, the Operating System For Its Vision Pro Headset 38
MS Paint Gets Its Long-Promised Dark Mode, Along With Other Improvements 25
Windows 11 Is Getting the Ability To Run Win32 Apps In Isolation 63
Australian Stock Exchange Says Software Overhaul Will No Longer Involve Blockchain 31
Apple Publishes First-Ever App Store Transparency Report 4
CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust 34
Apple Launches Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro on iPad with New Subscription Pricing 49
Meet the People Who Use 'Notion' To Plan Their Whole Lives 119
FSF Calls On the IRS To Provide Libre Tax-Filing Software 111
Why Video Editors Are Switching To DaVinci Resolve In Droves 97
Software Firms Across US Facing Massive Tax Bills That Threaten Tech Startup World Survival 77
Crypto's Ethereum Blockchain Completes Its Key Shanghai Software Upgrade 17
IRS-Authorized eFile.com Tax Return Software Caught Serving JS Malware 32
ByteDance-Owned Instagram Rival Lemon8 Hits the US App Store's Top 10 11
Microsoft Says Its New Version of Teams Is Twice As Fast 86
VW Will Support Software Products For Up To 15 Years 23
Duolingo Is Working On a Music App 8
Microsoft Wants Changing Default Apps In Windows To Be Less of a Mess 80
DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay Renderer Code Published 9
Ask Slashdot: What Exactly Are 'Microservices'? 288
GitLab Loses One-Third of Its Value After Weak Revenue Forecast 40
cURL, the Omnipresent Data Tool, Is Getting a 25th Birthday Party This Month 10
Nearly 40% of Software Engineers Will Only Work Remotely 163
Jack Dorsey-Backed Twitter Alternative Bluesky Hits the App Store As An Invite-Only App 89
Atlassian and Envoy Briefly Blame Each Other For Data Breach 6
KDE Plasma 5.27 Released 18
Viral TikTok Challenge Forces Hyundai and Kia To Update Software On Millions of Vehicles 84
Dashlane Publishes Its Source Code To GitHub In Transparency Push 8
Think Twice Before Using Google To Download Software, Researchers Warn 54
BMW Owner Discovers Car's Software Update Won't Install When Parked on Incline 127
AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices For Abuse 107
Google Releases Flutter 3.7, Teases Future of App Development Framework 24
Android 14 Set To Block Certain Outdated Apps From Being Installed 35
Anti-Plagiarism Service Turnitin Is Building a Tool To Detect ChatGPT-Written Essays 69
Microsoft Has Copied the Best Windows Audio App 41
The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off 202
Discord Acquires Gas, the Popular App For Teens To Compliment Each Other 27
Woman Ordered To Repay Employer After Software Shows 'Time Theft' 167
Native Americans Ask Apache Foundation To Change Name 339
MSI Intends 'To Continue With Afterburner' Overclocking App Despite Not Paying Its Russian Dev 52
Belarus Legalizes Piracy of Movies, Music and Software of 'Unfriendly' Nations 198
'We Found Subscription Menus in Our BMW Test Car. Is That Bad?' 173
Salesforce Guts Tableau After Spending $15.7 Billion in 2019 Deal 16
Southwest Meltdown Shows Airlines Need Tighter Software Integration 59
Sage Accused of 'Strong Arm' Tactics Over Move To Software Subscriptions 98
Police in China Can Track Protests By Enabling 'Alarms' on Hikvision Software 36
Software Engineer Charged For Theft Inspired By the Movie 'Office Space' 99
Waze Tests New Alerts Warning Drivers About Roads With a 'History of Crashes' 35
Ask Slashdot: What Note-Taking App Do You Use? 187
Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Modern Terminal Emulators? 286
AI Art Apps Are Cluttering the App Store Following Lensa AI's Success 7
Poor Software Costs the US 2.4 Trillion 78
UK Arrests Five For Selling 'Dodgy' Point of Sale Software 23
New Winamp Update Adds Features, Fixes, and (Sigh) Support For 'Music NFTs' 47
Microsoft Says Attackers Are Hacking Energy Grids By Exploiting Decades-Old Software 60
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91 16
US Navy Forced To Pay Software Company For Piracy 87
Windows 10 Users With Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Use GUI Apps 101
Authors Offer Free Downloads for New Second Edition of 'Designing with LibreOffice' Book 36
Nearly 50% of macOS Malware Comes From One App 74
Thanks To Open Source, 5G Cracks 50% of the Telecom Market 25
DuckDuckGo's Anti-Tracking Android Tool Could Be 'Even More Powerful' Than iOS 31
How Mem Plans To Reinvent Note-Taking Apps With AI 23
Zoom Is Adding Email and Calendar Features 16
Chrome To Drop Support For Windows 7 In 2023 53
Apple Rumored To Be Testing macOS For M2 iPad Pro 35
New Version of Windows 95 JavaScript App Runs On Basically Any Platform 32
Microsoft's PC Manager Is Like CCleaner For Your Computer 41
Company That Makes Rent-Setting Software For Apartments Accused of Collusion, Lawsuit Says 116
Google Announces GUAC Open-Source Project On Software Supply Chains 2

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