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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago, Karla Monterroso was at an airport when she noticed a glitch in a computer monitor that would normally display flight information. Instead, the screen showed the text “Master/Slave,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...