GitHub Overhauls Code Search Using New Search Engine

GitHub has introduced its new code search feature, including a redesigned search interface, a new code view, and a search engine rebuilt from scratch to be faster, more capable, and to better understand code, says GitHub software engineer Colin Merkel.

GCC 13 Supports New C2x Features, Including nullptr, Enhanced Enumerations, and More

At Google I/O 2023, Google has previewed Studio Bot, an AI-powered coding bot integrated in Android Studio latest version, codenamed Hedgehog. Studio Bot aims to help developers generate code, unit tests, and fix errors.

New Downfall Attack Could Lead to Sensitive Data Leakage on Intel Processors

Security researcher Daniel Moghimi discovered a new side-channel vulnerability affecting Intel processors that could be exploited to steal data from other users or apps running on the same computer. Dubbed Downfall, the vulnerability has been patched by Intel and mitigated by most major OS vendors.

Keeping Go "Boring" in Go 1.21: How Google Grants Backward Compatibility

In a recent article, Google engineer Russ Cox detailed what Google does to make sure each new Go release honors Go’s backward-compatibility guarantee. This includes generalizing GODEBUG in Go 1.21 to cover even subtle incompatibility cases.

Ngrok Starts Offering One Static Domain to All of its Free Users

To make it easier for developers to expose their local services to the Internet while developing them, ngrok is now providing them the possibility to create and use one static domain for free, instead of relying on time-limited, random domains.