In the early days of C, you’d occasionally see someone — probably a former Pascal programmer — write something like this: #define BEGIN { #define END } This would usually initiate complaints about ...

Back in the olden days, if you wanted to learn how to program a computer, you used the BASIC interpreter stored in ROM. This is how an entire generation of devs learned how to program. Now, home ...

An apparently school-age hacker based in Verona, Italy, has become the latest to demonstrate why developers need to pay close attention to what they download from public code repositories these days.