Rust is the great hope for a safe low-level programming language. This is often expressed in the motto "fearless concurrency", but who is to say that it really is better. Perhaps it's just as bad in different ways.

GitHub's Security Bug Bounty Program is now five years old and has been updated again with better rewards and a wider remit. Now a Microsoft-owned company, GitHub has also added Legal Safe Harbor terms to its policy to offer researchers better legal protection.

It's not so much a breakout, more a sort of bending of the rules. After Google and Facebook were shamed by Apple because they misused their enterprise developer certificates, it now appears that the practice is fairly common.

For the first time Devskiller is sharing the insights gathered as a result of testing 112,654 developers from over 120 countries for companies in over 40 countries over the course of 2018.

GitHub has added a way to show other developers that a pull request is code that is work in progress or even just an idea on how you're thinking of creating code.

Registration is now open for Kick Start one of Google's three coding contests. Aimed at students and those new to coding competitions, its 24-hour practice round takes place online on February 23-24 and then there are nine three-hour rounds of the contest at monthly intervals.

A new robot con is on the rise - the robot artist that is personified by its promoters to fool the gullible. Meet Ai-Da, a toy with some software designed to be taken seriously by people who should know better.

Google Domains has the rights to the .dev Top Level Domain and intends to make as much money from it as possible - $11,500 just for early access to the scramble to register the most desirable names.

Catch up with everything that appeared on I Programmer last week. Our digest gives links to news coverage plus the week's book review and additions to Book Watch. We start with feature articles, an extract from Harry Fairhead's soon-to-be-published book, C For The IoT and, from our History section, Douglas Engelbart - The Man Who Invented The Future.

DigitalOcean has launched a Managed Database service for PostgreSQL, with plans to add support for other database engines  throughout the year. The service provides fully hosted and managed database engines.

Everyone seems to want to provide an IoT solution, but it's a tough market to crack. Now Arduino has an easy to use cloud solution, but can you trust it? And is it even needed?

Almost three quarters of all vulnerabilities found in Microsoft products come into the category of memory safety issues, according to a talk by a Microsoft Engineer at this year's BlueHat conference.

The European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission has now agreed a compromise text for the EU copyright directive and the process has entered into its final phase in which it will either be adopted or rejected by a plenary session of MEPs.

Why is it important to understand the inner workings of a neural network? Read on to find out and to be introduced to Google's machine-to-human translator tool, TCAV (Testing with Concept Activation Vectors) 

It is hardly surprising, to me at least, that Android Things is being "refocused". It was unimaginative in the extreme, misunderstood the problems of the IoT and security and was unattractive to anyone knowing Google's tendency to drop projects.

Intuit's Small Business Hackathon is back in London for the third time and has a prizes of up to £5000 for creating a brand new solution that saves small businesses time or money.

The team at SQLite has added a Vacuum Into command that lets you back up a database atomically so that the backup is as small as possible and contains no forensic traces of deleted content.

A tool that alerts you if users are running expensive queries on Amazon Athena query engine has been open sourced by the developers.