Links for September 9th through September 10th

Swift Has Reached 1.0 #swift #ios – On June 2, 2014 at WWDC, the Swift team finally showed you what we had been working on for years. That was a big day with lots of excitement, for us and for developers around the world. Today, we’ve reached the second giant milestone – Swift version 1.0 is GA
The Hacker ‘Skills Gap’ May Be More of a Strategy Gap – Hackers are succeeding with what appears to be alarming regularity. But that may not be because they are smarter or even better trained than defenders, but because they think, and attack, more strategically
11 open source security tools catching fire on GitHub – Malware analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics — GitHub hosts a number of compelling tools for securing computing environments of all sizes
iOS 8’s hidden revolution goes way beyond the iPad and iPhone – Handoff, Touch ID, extensions, HealthKit, CloudKit, and HomeKit are all part of a larger plan that moves liquid computing forward
Crosswalk is a web runtime for ambitious HTML5 applications – Crosswalk is a web runtime for ambitious HTML5 applications. It provides all the features of a modern browser, combined with deep device integration and an API for adding native extensions. It is especially suited to mobile devices, with support for both Android and Tizen

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