Less than a week after Apple banned cryptocurrency mining apps from its App Store, a popular PC Android emulator has been caught installing a cryptojacker.
The difference between cryptocurrency mining software and a cryptojacker is the latter uses your device’s resources without your permission.
A perceptive Reddit user noticed Andy...
Britain is leading app development in Europe with more than £2 billion worth of sales on the iOS App Store since it was launched.
According to Apple’s figures, over 290,000 jobs in the UK are linked to the App Store.
London is the hub for app development in Britain, accounting for around 138,000 of the jobs.
Other major cities for development jobs in the UK includes Manchester, Oxford, Bristol, and Birmingham.
The next biggest country in Europe for iOS app development is Germany with around...
Bethesda is establishing itself as the first game publisher to fully embrace omnipresent gaming, and it doesn't mind poking fun at itself for it.
Omnipresence is something which is everywhere. Bethesda has a reputation for making its games available to as many platforms as possible, but the company is taking it up a notch with Elder Scrolls Blades.
Elder Scrolls Blades is a new game in the popular series that features...
Now we’ve received confirmation of Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub, we’ve gathered some views of developers around the web.
GitHub is quite universally beloved in the developer community, but the same cannot quite be said for Microsoft. The company remains divisive; with many either being fans, or believing it’s poison to...
Former executives from Xbox, Atari, Dell, Unity, Uber, and Time Warner have joined forces to create Ultra, a blockchain platform aiming to revolutionise game distribution.
Game distribution is monopolised with leading players take advantage of their position to take large cuts from developers’ work.
Nicolas Gilot, Co-CEO of Ultra. says:
“The success of Steam, Google, and Apple’s app stores over the last decade means that users have grown to expect and demand...
Online developer community Stack Overflow has posted its latest UK and Ireland Developer Hiring Landscape report, providing insights on the nations’ workforce.
The results are based on ‘the largest survey of software developers ever’ with over 100,000 respondents.
Developers in England receive a median salary of £45,000, compared to £42,000 in Scotland, £41,500 in Wales and just £37,750 in Northern Ireland.
DevOps specialists...
Prolific leaker Evan Blass (of @evleaks and Venture Beat fame) produced a rather interesting morsel this week: reportedly, Samsung employees have been spotted wearing smartwatches running Wear OS, rather than Samsung's own Tizen operating system.
Samsung has been committed to its homegrown platform for a few years now, with Gear smartwatches and fitness trackers exclusively using the Tizen OS, so seeing a switch to Wear OS is something of a sea change.
This tweet...
So, you're an intermediate Python programmer. You've earned that title through coming into Python after knowing another language, or by going through Python tutorials or classes until you felt confident enough in the basics. That's great. Now, it's time to really spread your wings and really start thinking in a Pythonic way. Here are ten of my favourite resources to do just that, including fun challenges, must-read books, reference tools and projects.
Lego took to the New York City Toy Fair this week to announce its new line of connected toys. They're called Powered Up, and they stride the line between traditional sets and programming-oriented brands like Boost and Mindstorms. The idea is to make sets that are fun out of the box, with nothing but building required, but to add in smarter elements for kids to take the toys further, like remote controls and programming.
The lead set is the Batman App-Controlled Batmobile, a remote controlled car driven...
If you rely on encrypted email via PGP or S/MIME, you may want to temporarily switch to a new form of communication, as serious issues have been found with how these standards are implemented in many popular email programs on Windows, Linux, macOS and Android.
Following an initial advisory on Monday, European researchers published an exploit called Efail in a paper called Breaking S/Mime and OpenPGP Email Encryption Using Exfiltration Channels.
The paper outlines...
