The language of computing is changing in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Twitter is dropping the terms “master,” “slave” and “blacklist” from its code after two engineers lobbied for the use of ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co is eliminating terms like "blacklist," "master" and "slave" from its internal technology materials and code as it seeks to address racism within the company, said two sources with ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has approved removal of terms like ‘blacklist/whitelist’ and ‘master/slave’ in source codes. Linux is the latest to join the list ...

Twitter has pledged to use more inclusive language in its programming code, dropping terms like "master," "slave," "whitelist" and "blacklist." The social network's engineering team said Thursday the ...

GitHub is working on replacing the term "master" on its service with a neutral term like "main" to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday. The code-hosting portal is just ...

Raleigh technology company Red Hat said Tuesday that it would take measures to remove contentious terms like “master/slave” from its source code and other areas, in an effort to make its products more ...

On Wednesday evening, ZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens submitted what should have been a simple, non-controversial pull request to the OpenZFS project: wherever possible without causing technical ...

Google has instructed employees to stop using politically incorrect terminology, and to edit existing code in order to remove offensive language. The master/slave example is specifically cited in the ...

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