GitHub Introduces Dependency Graph and Security Alerts

At its Universe conference, GitHub announced a number of features aiming to make your code more protected. These include a dependency graph and, built on top of the former, security alerts. Additionally, GitHub now provides a recommender to help you discover projects you may be interested in, and a new Explore experience, offering a curated selection of collections, topics, and other resources.

Google Aims to Demonstrate Quantum Supremacy with a 50-Qubit Processor

In a paper published in Nature, Google has revealed its plans to demonstrate that quantum computers can perform a computational task beyond the capability of a classical computer, a claim known as quantum supremacy. Key in Google’s plan is building a 50-qubit processors to solve quantum sampling problems.

Rust 1.21 Improves Language Syntax and Tooling

The Rust core team has just released Rust 1.21, bringing a new language feature making literals more flexible, library stabilizations, and improved support for tools.

C++17 is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter

Last month, the ISO C++ committee formally approved the new C++17 standard, after work on it was finalized in April 2017. InfoQ has taken the opportunity to speak to Herb Sutter, who has been involved for many years with ISO C++ committee activities and is actually its convener.

SciPy Goes 1.0, Gets New Governance Structure

Sixteen years after it was born, SciPy, the leading Python library for scientific and technical computing, reaches version 1.0, which marks the achievement of both technical and organizational goals.