$> sudo rm /bin/bash

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Or patch it.

A flaw (said more critical than the Heartbleed attack) has been discovered in one of the oldest and most used program in UNIX machines : BASH.

Bash is the default system shell on most UNIX operating systems, including MacOSX and Ubuntu.

Basically the flaw could make a hacker able to access to private user information, and of course this could work remotely through networking (i.e via Internet too).

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29361794

Facebook’s vision of C/C++ source preprocessing : Warp

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Warp is an open-source tool developed in D language to replace the original cpp (understand CPreProcessor, not C PlusPlus) when compiling C or C++ source code.

The main goal is productivity improvement, thanks to faster preprocessing. And for that, Warp relies on caching to achieve better preprocessing times.

Read this interview between Andrei Alexandrescu a Research Scientist at Facebook, and Walter Bright, the writer of Warp (these two guys are also the creators of the D language).

 

Do you want to work in great music software development? Allright, Ableton hires!

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But you may have to move to Berlin!

Ableton Live is one of my favorite music production software, I love the way this product brings intuitiveness and fun into music creation…

The latest innovation of Ableton is called Push, a piece of hardware dedicated to make Live usage even more handy…

This is one of the most exciting job offer I’ve ever read, and I swear that’s not only because they eat organic lunches at their canteen…

Ableton.com

Qt 5.2 : “The Best Qt Yet”

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The scandinavian company Digia has released the version 5.2 of their cross-platform application and UI framework, known by the name of Qt (pronounce “cute”).

This release brings huge improvements in mobile platform support : Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Sailfish and Ubuntu Mobile, making Qt to have one of the widest platform support ever.

The Desktop support have also been upgraded, including improvements for Apple’s OS X Mavericks.

And the cherry on the cake is that this release come with Qt Creator 3.0, the new version of the famous Qt/C++ IDE.

Source : Qt blog