LLD, LLVM’s New Linker, Coming to LLVM 4

LLD, which touts great performance improvements over GCC ld, will be included in LLVM 4 rc1 and enabled by default. Although the new linker is already able to build a running FreeBSD/amd64 base system, its inclusion in LLVM is still experimental and could be set back in rc2 if it causes problems.

GitHub Invites Developers to Contribute to the Open Source Guides

GitHub has recently launched its Open Source Guides, a collection of resources addressing the most common scenarios and best practices for both contributors and maintainers of open source projects. The guides themselves are open source and GitHub is actively inviting developers to participate and share their stories. InfoQ spoke with Brandon Keepers, GitHub’s Head of Open Source.

Bitbucket Introduces Required Two-Factor Authentication and IP Whitelisting

Atlassian has announced two new features aimed to make Bitbucket more secure: IP whitelisting and required two-factor verification.

IBM QISKit Aims to Enable Cloud-Based Quantum Computation

The Quantum Experience team at IBM has started to open source their quantum software QISKit, writes quantum computing and information scientist Jay Gambetta. QISKit allows developers to explore IBM cloud-enabled quantum processor using Python.

GitHub Steps Up to Recognizing Developers' Creative Rights

GitHub’s Balanced Employee Intellectual Property agreement (BEIPA) is an attempt to strike a new balance to assign developers more rights on their intellectual creation outside of work. By making it an open source project, GitHub also hopes to make it reusable and open to outside contributions.