IT News Digest #10: Kotlin 1.6.20 brings many new features, billionaire Elon Musk’s reversal of his decision to join Twitter’s board, OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures

Last week in news: developer tool releases, Epic Games announced today that it has raised $2 billion in funding from Sony and Kirkbi.

Development:

• Java News Roundup by InfoQ: Virtual Threads, JReleaser 1.0, Project Loom, Vendor Statements on Spring4Shell.

• Kotlin 1.6.20 brings many new features: extended context receivers, native parallel compilation, and definitely non-nullable types.

• GitHub enhances secret scanning for tighter code security. ​​GitHub has updated its Advanced Security service with a “push protection” capability.

Career and IT market:

• Musk backing off Twitter board opens door to hostile takeover.

• OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures. Researchers can sign up to preview it.

• Epic raises $2B at a nearly $32B valuation to build its kid-friendly metaverse.

Online Security:

• Microsoft seized Russian domains targeting Ukrainian media organizations.

• Russian Wiper Malware Likely Behind Recent Cyberattack on Viasat KA-SAT Modems.