Squared (AKA Gaby) is a French hacker who created edex-ui, a science-fiction inspired desktop “heavily inspired from DEX-UI and the TRON Legacy movie effects,” which gives you a terminal and live telemetry from your system; it looks like it would be especially fun on a tablet (though if you really wanna go sci fi, […]
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Kernel source code for Moto E5 now available
Motorola has already released the kernel source code for most of the Moto E5 variants, including the E5 Plus and E5 Play Android Go Edition. However, the code for the plain E5 has not been available for developers to tinker with — until now. Motorola just uploaded the Android 8.0 Oreo kernel source code for […]
Read MoreEvolutionary Space Invaders: shoot the aliens as a genetic algorithm modifies them
InvaderZ is a Space Invaders variant that incorporates a genetic algorithm that mutates the invaders as you shoot at them, with survival for a fitness function: the longer an invader lasts before being blasted out of the sky, the more its behaviors are carried over into the next wave (here’s a playable live version). […]
Read MoreMicrosoft now officially owns GitHub, a reminder of how much the company has changed
During its earnings call just a few days ago, Microsoft executives promised the company’s $7.5 billion acquisition of the GitHub code repository would be closing shortly. They weren’t kidding — the company announced today that it’s officially a done deal and finally complete, one more example of how the company has been evolving in a […]
Read MoreMoto G5 kernel source code for Android 8.1 Oreo is out
The non-Plus model of the Moto G5 was never released in the US, but for those of you overseas who have one, here’s some good news for you. The Android 8.1 Oreo-based kernel source code for the Moto G5, codenamed ‘cedric,’ has now been published on GitHub, meaning that developers can start cooking. This news […]
Read MoreWhat developers need to do to save the internet from the EU’s looming copyright disaster
[embedded content] On Wednesday, the EU will vote on whether to force all online platforms to filter user-generated content against massive databases of copyrighted works (anyone can add anything to these databases, without penalties for abuse); not only is this a catastrophe for everyone who writes software that will have to comply with this […]
Read MoreGitHub is the key to upping your coding game
If you’re spending too much time debugging your code then you’ve already probably realized the virtues of Git and GitHub. Right now you get get comprehensive training for more than half price. It could save you literally days of error hunting and frustration. We all make mistakes, but when you’re coding they can be infuriating. […]
Read MoreMotorola releases Oreo kernel source code for Moto G6 Play and E5 Play
Back in April, Motorola introduced six – yes, six – smartphones simultaneously. Three belonged to the Moto G6 line, and the other three were in the Moto E5 family. The company has now published the Oreo source codes for the Moto G6 Play and E5 Play. While six phones were announced at that same time, […]
Read More[Oops] DexGuard, a tool to protect Android apps from hacking, has its code leaked online
As you may have figured out from our APK teardowns, it’s pretty easy to look inside most Android apps and figure out what they’re doing. There are a few products designed to obfuscate (hide) app code, one of them being DexGuard from Guardsquare. However, apps protected with DexGuard might become vulnerable in the future, thanks […]
Read MoreA next-gen, multi-switch Useless Machine that unswitches your switches in order
Coffeeman 500’s Useless Box – Multi Switch project is an open-source hardware project that’s an ambitious variant on the beloved “Useless Machine” — 2010, 2010 (Lego)), 2010 Political edition), 2011 (HOWTO), 2012 (politics), 2013 (fancy), 2013 (advanced) (vs human), 2016 (most useless), 2017 (vs twisty vase). In Mr 500’s implementation, the useless machine […]
Read MoreEA Kills “Open Source” Version Of SimCity 2000
Earlier this year, a game called OpenSC2K was released on GitHub, claiming to be a free, open source version of Maxis’ classic. Turns out it wasn’t as open source as it could have been, though, because EA have had the game removed from the platform. As TorrentFreak report, the art assets used in OpenSC2K were […]
Read MoreGitHub and Google reaffirm partnership with Cloud Build CI/CD tool integration
When Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion smackeroos in June, it sent some shock waves through the developer community as it is a key code repository. Google certainly took notice, but the two companies continue to work closely together. Today at Google Next, they announced an expansion of their partnership around Google’s new CI/CD tool, […]
Read MoreMotorola releases 8.1 Oreo kernel source code for Moto X4
The Moto X4 started receiving Android 8.1 Oreo back in May, and it brought with it a couple of issues. Two months later, Motorola has released the kernel source for that update as it’s mandated to do by the GPL whenever there are any modifications to the Android kernel. What this means is that developers […]
Read MoreGentoo’s GitHub was hacked: What you need to know
Popular Linux distribution Gentoo has been hacked, with the company warning that its GitHub repository should be “considered compromised.” Unknown hackers took control of the GitHub account earlier this week, on June 28, and modified both pages and the OS data there. GitHub is a web-based hosting service, used by many thousands of projects to […]
Read MorePentagon furor may have distracted Google in bid to buy GitHub
Google’s Cloud CEO conceded at a Fortune Magazine event in San Francisco Wednesday something many people suspected — that the Mountain View-based computing giant got beaten by Microsoft in a bid to buy GitHub, a $7.5 billion deal between the latter two companies that was announced earlier this month. Speaking at Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women […]
Read MoreEveryTeam raises $3M to create a living internal company lexicon
As companies get bigger and bigger, all the critical information about a company — even its mission and culture statements — can get lost in a massive pile of Google Docs or files strewn across dozens of collaboration tools, making it nearly impossible to find. That’s where the team behind EveryTeam hopes to step in […]
Read MoreSecurity, privacy experts weigh in on the ICE doxxing
In what appears to be the latest salvo in a new, wired form of protest, developer Sam Lavigne posted code that scrapes LinkedIn to find Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee accounts. His code, which basically a Python-based tool that scans LinkedIn for keywords, is gone from Github and Gitlab and Medium took down his original […]
Read MoreMotorola Moto G6 and G6 Plus kernel source code released
With the Moto G6 and G6 Plus slowly becoming more and more widely available, Motorola has published the kernel source code for the Moto G6 and G6 Plus. The G6 Play’s source code was released in late April, but it’s taken over a month on top of that for the G6 and G6 Plus’s for […]
Read MoreThe messy, musical process behind the web’s new security standard
The web is a big place, and changing the way it works isn’t a simple process. But it has to happen somehow or we’d all still be using Mosaic and transmitting our private data in cleartext. A new security standard called TLS 1.3 is the latest big change to how our browsers communicate, but the […]
Read MoreThe largest buys of tech’s Big Five: a look at M&A deals
In startup land, the mandate is to get bought, go public or die trying. And, as far as getting bought goes, one of tech’s Big Five could be a desirable acquirer. They have a lot of weight to throw around. Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft account for a titanic amount of market value — close to […]
Read MoreUS startups off to a strong M&A run in 2018
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Scaling startups are setting up secondary hubs in these cities Here is where CEOs of heavily funded startups went to school With Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub this week, we can now decisively declare a trend: 2018 is shaping up as a darn good year for […]
Read MoreGitHub’s epic exit, Domo’s dicey math, and Dataminr’s big raise
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This time ’round we had Connie and Alex on hand with Brian Ascher, a longtime partner with Venrock down in Palo Alto, Ca. It was a surprisingly busy week, so we had our work cut out us. Without […]
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