Deep inside the engine control units (ECUs) of roughly 11 million Volkswagen diesel engines across the world, certain code was executing, which helped the company cheat on their harmful gases emission ratings. It did this by activating the emission control
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Autodesk Competitor Steals Code, Blames Rogue Engineer
Those End-User Licence Agreements on software exist for a reason: to prevent licenced code from unauthorised use. This was true for design software company Autodesk recently when it appeared that a software engineer from Chinese competitor firm ZWSoft had stolen
Press Release: Hyperion Launches First Job Site for Software Developers in South Africa
The South African market for software developers
Software developers are in high demand in South Africa, yet both the job search and candidate search experience are poorly developed for the South African market. General job search portals such as
Dev Survey 2016: Mac OS X More Popular Than Linux?
The most recent Stack Overflow Developer survey has just been released, and it has plenty of interesting stats for developers. Apart from the numbers pegging one programming language against another, the millenial argument of ‘which operating system is better’ has …
Read MoreHow Free Education is Possible in South Africa
The FeesMustFall movement is sweeping across South Africa for a second time, plunging campuses into chaos under the demand of free education for all. In South Africa – and other African countries – it is clear that education is a
Hyperion Development Secures $230,000 (R3.27 million) in Funding from Facebook
South African and UK-based startup HyperionDev, which runs the largest online course platform for programming and Computer Science education in Africa, was announced as the Innovation Challenge Award Winner in a recent press release from Facebook.
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