This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review AgileFall is an ironic term for program management where you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techn…

Neo4j Backs Launch of GQL Project: First New ISO Database Language Since SQL SAN MATEO, Calif. – September 17, 2019  – Neo4j, the leader in graph databases, announced today that the international committees that develop the SQL standard have voted… Read more →

Sun-soaked Egypt’s first utility-scale PV power plant—one of the world’s largest solar installations—is coming online

YugabyteDB 2.0 released. Read to learn about production-ready YSQL, performance benchmarks, Jepsen results, and Beta feature previews

Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research - microsoft/AirSim

Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway.

The dominant costs of processing JavaScript are download and CPU execution time.

GoCardless, the London fintech that aims to become the one-stop shop globally for businesses that want to let customers pay via recurring bank payments, has launched a U.S. debit solution. The company has also opened an office across the pond in San Francisco’s…

One neuron’s take on how 300 million people can think as one.

IBM continues to push its quantum computing efforts forward and today announced that it will soon make a 53-qubit quantum computer available to clients of its IBM Q Network. The new system, which is scheduled to go online in the middle of next month, will…

Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records. One expert warned about it for years.

Warming waters and a series of dams are making the grueling migration of the Chinook salmon even more deadly — and threatening dozens of other species.

A technical walk-through of how we hacked Blackboard and changed our grades.

India’s government has announced an immediate ban on e-cigarettes — citing youth-focused public health concerns. In a news statement following a cabinet meeting today, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the ban covers production, manufacturing, import…

Twitter took down nearly 1,000 accounts that it said were part of a state-directed effort to undermine protests. Here is a look at their activities.

A new edition of the book Modern C and much more are now available under a CC license via the following page  This edition is the result of a collaboration with Manning, and improves a lot ove…

Today we’re announcing a big step in securing the open source supply chain: we’re welcoming Semmle to the GitHub family.