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Phones / Google Camera App Will Stop Creating Folders For Each Portrait Shot by gavinhallton: 11:26am On Aug 24, 2020
Google's Camera app has a few fascinating idiosyncrasies that anyone who's dealt with Pixel phones has had to come to terms with. One of them is its file management policy for handling Portrait mode shots - for each one of these, it creates a dedicated folder to hold two images, one with the applied blurred background processing and one that is as shot. This has proven problematic for viewing in basically any app that's not Google Photos, on desktop too.

As reported by AndroidPolice, starting with v7.5, that's no longer going to be the case - Portrait mode shots will be saved in the base Camera folder. If you're a smartphone reviewer that means no longer having to go through hoops to compare two portraits on a PC. If you're a regular person it means your portraits will observe the chronology of all your other photos.

Further helping with this is the fact that files will be named differently altogether. According to the new convention, portraits will now be named PXL_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.PORTRAIT-01.COVER.jpg with the 01 replaced with 02 for the pre-blur image. Compare that to the old-style 00100*PORTRAIT_00100_BURSTYYYYMMDDHHMMSS_COVER.jpg nonsense (what's behind the asterisk seems to vary between versions). We're also appreciating the added clarity from a simple underscore separator between date and time.

Meanwhile, regular non-portraits will be named PXL_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.jpg. Motion photos will add an 'MP' before the .jpg extension, while Night Sight shots will manifest themselves with a 'NIGHT', letting you more easily recognize what's what. Another new development is that the 'PXL' prefix replaces the 'IMG' of old, revealing to everyone you share photos with that you're on #teampixel (is that still a thing?).

The changes appear in v7.5 of the Google Camera app which only works on Android 11 for the time being, itself still in beta.

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Webmasters / Github Acquires Semmle To Help Developers Spot Security Vulnerabilities by gavinhallton: 7:37am On Nov 14, 2019
Popular software hosting service GitHub has acquired Semmle, a code analysis platform that helps product developers and security researchers discover potential zero-days and critical vulnerabilities in large codebases.

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by the two companies. But GitHub intends to make Semmle’s automated code review products available via GitHub Actions.

The San Francisco-based firm — founded in 2006 — counts Uber, NASA, Microsoft, Google, and Nasdaq as some of its clients.

Semmle offers tools like QL that codifies logical programming errors as queries to spot mistakes, find variants of the same bug elsewhere in the code, and prevent them from occurring in the future.

QL also powers Semmle’s second product, LGTM (short for “Looks Good to Me”), a software engineering analytics platform that combines deep semantic code search with data science insights to let teams get feedback, recommendations, and uncover vulnerable versions of third-party library dependencies.

GitHub is positioning Semmle’s offerings as a means to “investigate, address, and propagate security issues” in open-source projects, as it seeks to incentivize developers in securing software.

In addition, GitHub revealed it’s now a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority, thereby allowing the company to assign identifiers to new security flaws as and when they are discovered on the platform.

With Semmle integration, every CVE-ID can be associated with a Semmle QL query, which can then be shared and tracked by the broader developer community.

To date, hundreds of CVEs in open-source projects have been uncovered using Semmle, spanning across Google Chromium, Linux, Ubuntu, and Microsoft’s Edge browser.

The Microsoft subsidiary’s acquisition comes months after it purchased Pull Panda to beef up its portfolio of code review tools and provide developers an infrastructure to create secure software that follows the best software practices.

In the year since the tech giant acquired GitHub, the latter has grown into a full-fledged version control system, in addition to becoming one of the largest repositories for hosting open-source software.

Viewed in that light, Semmle is a cog in the grand GitHub wheel that fits right into its software development workflow.

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