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How Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show sign language interpreter is making history

Celimar Rivera Cosme will be the first Puerto Rican Sign Language (LSPR) interpreter in Super Bowl halftime show history. Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show performance will be the first in the big ...
IEEE

CHARON: Polyglot Code Analysis for Detecting Vulnerabilities in Scripting Languages Native Extensions

Abstract: Scripting languages like Python or JavaScript are extremely popular among developers, in part due to their massive open-source ecosystems that enable smooth code reuse. However, recent work ...
Wired

Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...
InfoWorld

C# rises in Tiobe language popularity index

C#, Microsoft’s object-oriented, cross-platform, open source language for the .NET platform, has become the fastest-growing language on Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. C# may ...
Bleeping Computer

60 malicious Ruby gems downloaded 275,000 times steal credentials

Sixty malicious Ruby gems containing credential-stealing code have been downloaded over 275,000 times since March 2023, targeting developer accounts. The malicious Ruby gems were discovered by Socket, ...
Dark Reading

60 RubyGems Packages Steal Data From Annoying Spammers

For two years now, a Korean threat actor has been publishing malicious open source software (OSS) packages designed to steal credentials from spam marketers. Are you tired of shady, throwaway online ...
Dark Reading

Attackers Impersonate Ruby Packages to Steal Sensitive Telegram Data

Attackers are exploiting a popular code package for the Ruby programming language in a supply chain attack aimed at stealing sensitive data from Telegram chats. The attack demonstrates how threat ...
Nature

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...
InfoWorld

Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity – Tiobe index

Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby have dropped from their top 20 positions in the language popularity index and seem to be in decline, according to Tiobe. The Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby languages have slipped from ...
TechRepublic

March 2025 TIOBE Index: Legacy ‘Dinosaur’ Languages Are Making a Comeback

March 2025 TIOBE Index: Legacy ‘Dinosaur’ Languages Are Making a Comeback Your email has been sent Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their ...
Electronic Design

Do You Recognize These? Programming Language Challenge

This is part of our Do You Recognize These? series. You may use at least one programming language regularly but you have probably used or learned about more along the way. Syntax and semantics of ...