Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet operation called SSHStalker that relies on the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) purposes. ...

If you’ve ever used a 3D printer, you may recall the wondrous feeling when you first printed something you could have never sculpted or built yourself. Download a model file, load some plastic ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

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 ...

At the graduate level, Purdue Agriculture provides a fully online Graduate Certificate in Spatial Data Science. Build expertise in spatial data science, GIS analytics, and geospatial data ...

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive ...

Did you know Python powers platforms like Instagram and Spotify, while Perl is the backbone for many legacy systems in finance and telecom? In 2025, scripting languages like Python and Perl continue ...

Before Donald Trump became US president and the UK left the EU – both arguably the result of a new kind of online politics – a rather nervous-looking Mark Zuckerberg shuffled out onto a Harvard ...

Microsoft recently decided to rewrite the TypeScript tool chain using Go. This has caused a stir as folks wonder why Microsoft chose the Go language instead of their own C# or even TypeScript itself.

The Perl programming language was created in 1987 and started as a tool for working with text. Over the years, it has become a flexible language used in many areas, like building websites, managing ...

Perl is one of the cornerstones that web development and automation have taken into use, slowly losing the ground that has held for years. Newer languages such as Python, Ruby, and JavaScript have ...