I don't know about you, but I love Android tablets. Recently, however, I have given in to pressure from Amazon and use Fire Tablets. Now Google seems to think that it is time to give the format a try. Why did it ever give up on tablets?

The first large scale investigation of the prevalence of JavaScript prototype pollution reveals that more than 2,700 of websites, including ten among the top 1,000 had flaws that could expose them to exploitable vulnerabilities.

Deno has been updated with faster calls into Rust and auto-compression of HTTP response bodies. Deno is the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime from the creator of Node.js.

CircleCi, the company behind one of the most popular continuous integration and continuous delivery platforms, has released the results from its 2022 State of Software Delivery Report.

Vaadin, the versatile full stack Java-based framework that is a competitor to Spring MVC, continues to innovate with its new release of v23 which sees the first release of Hilla, the new name for Vaadin Fusion.

Redis has introduced RedisJSON 2, an enhanced version of the Redis module that implements the JSON Data Interchange Standard as a native data type. The module can be used to store, update and fetch JSON values from Redis documents.

The future of advertising was displayed this week in Austin, Texas to coincide with the South by Southwest festival. Drones created a huge QR code visible for miles around, attracting attention from a much larger audience than just the attendees at the show itself.

Coursera has a limited time offer, lasting until March 28th 2022, for selected Specializations on topics including machine learning and maths, reducing the cost of the first month's enrollment to $3.14. 

Google has released the Google Play Developer Reporting API, providing  programmatic access to app-level data and metrics for internal reporting, analysis and automation.

A Stack Overflow Survey reveals that over 90% of developers feel it is important to be happy at work and 70% of them are currently happy. Almost half of developers think their own home is the ideal place to work - and Stack Overflow suggests that a greenhouse could be the ideal developer habitat. 

Go 1.18 has been released with improvements including support for generic code using parameterized types and fuzzing fully integrated into its standard toolchain. The update is described as the most significant change to Go since the release of Go 1, and the largest single language change they’d ever made.