“RISC-V is where Arm was in 2010.” If true, there’s about to be a major breakthrough in the market for demand | Challenger to x86 RISEs to Solve the Software Problem
The goal is to create the underlying software tools and middleware that developers will need to write applications for devices or servers with RISC-V chips.
Reddit Communities Go Dark to Protest New App Policy (Gift Article)
Volunteer moderators closed off access to numerous subreddits and denounced the platform’s pricing plan for developers of popular outside apps used to navigate the site.
Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science: Information, Arts, Humanities, and Sciences offer better models for #CSforAll
In April, I gave a talk at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D) “Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science”…
Google Might Owe You Money. Here’s How to Get It. (Gift Article)
As part of a legal settlement, Google agreed to pay $23 million to users who clicked on a search link from 2006 to 2013. Individual payments are estimated to be less than $8.
BMI was widely used in the Air Force. Towards the end with my disabilities I was doing timed walks, BMI and waist, measurement. It was either a 0 or 100 based on your height. Flawed af! | Body mass index gets smack down: AMA calls out harms and “racist exclusion”
The massive medical group says it has some value but called for a better standard.
Oil and gas giant Shell confirms it was impacted by Clop ransomware attacks
Shell confirmed on Thursday it had been impacted by the Clop ransomware gang’s breach of the MOVEit file transfer tool after the group listed the British oil and gas multinational on its extortion site.
It's Recommended To Avoid Using The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver On Linux 6.3
It's recommended to avoid using the open-source NVIDIA 'Nouveau' graphics driver on the current stable Linux 6.3 series as there is a serious bug present that could cause varying issues to your system.
Microsoft has published the latest release of their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) implementation for running Linux distributions within the confines of Windows
Anyone out there using this? | Spectre: A password manager that doesn’t store passwords
Password managers are not without security flaws, as seen in a recent high-profile breach. The database storing all the user's passwords is a very attractive target for hackers. Spectre is a new password manager that aims to solve this problem by using a unique password generation and management approach.
Microsoft’s supply chain is hooked on fossil fuels
Despite Microsoft’s big climate change ambitions, its supply chain depends on fossil fuels, with some large suppliers not even having a single renewable energy source to power their operations.
CISA orders US civilian agencies to remove tools from public-facing internet
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered all federal civilian agencies to remove devices from the public-facing internet in an effort to solve one of the government’s most prevalent security issues.
PostgreSQL now top developer choice ahead of MySQL, according to massive new survey • DEVCLASS
A survey of 90,000 developers shows that PostgreSQL is ahead of MySQL as the choice of database engine, a notable change from the same survey last year. The May 2023 survey, conducted by developer Q&A site Stack Overflow, has 45.55 percent of respondents using PostgreSQL, versus 41.09 percent MySQL and 30.9 percent SQLite. Three years […]
Accenture plans to invest $3B over three years into its data and AI practice, aiming to have 80,000 staff working on AI, after laying off ~19,000 in March 2023
Accenture said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over three years into its data and AI practice, doubling the number of employees that are working with the cutting-edge technology at the IT consulting firm.