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Researchers have discovered a set of vulnerabilities that can be chained together to perform code execution attacks on Dell machines. Check your updates, people.
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Microsoft is officially confirming the name for the next release of Windows today: Windows 11. After months of teases, hints of the number 11, and a giant Windows 11 leak, Microsoft’s new operating system is official. Yes, there's a Start button (but it's an option in Settings).
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop doing the newsletter (and sniffing glue).
TTFN - Kent
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It was all part of Microsoft's Master Plan
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The design is now about fashion instead of usability.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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What do you mean, now?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Maybe the next WSL upgrade will let you swap out the Windows desktop for different Windows ones
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Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11. And somewhere on the internet someone starts to figure out a way to sideload APKs.
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Facing calls from regulators to open the gates to alternative app stores and sideloaded apps on the iPhone, Apple has launched a substantial public-relations push this week to make the case that sideloading would do harm to the iOS ecosystem and its users. Insert 1984 joke here.
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I'm guessing sideloading would harm the iOS ecosystem 30%.
(Apple may have trade in their Cash Cow to a slightly smaller Cash Cow.)
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GitHub is rolling out new features for the most-used online code repository on the market. Watch out, Azure DevOps?
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Software development is a creative process, understanding this helps everyone involved in project plans is likely to change. You cannot have a fixed plan for changing requirements and a software which needs to be accepted by the users. Where are you on a scale from toddler to Picasso?
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I've worked on software which seemed a cross between Picasso and Pollock.
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John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. You're probably thinking, "some sort of virus got him."
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I'm thinking he used the product bearing his name.
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It sounds like his virus scan detected Covid and quarantined him and later deleted him.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, the University of Naples Federico II, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences has found that making food from air would be far more efficient than growing crops. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
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Awesome!
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You take your protein pills; I want a medium steak with baked potatoes.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: that uses solar energy panels to make electricity, which is combined with carbon dioxide from the air to produce food for microbes grown in a bioreactor.
Sounds like Frankenstein's monster but really teeny-weeny in size.
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Quantum computers still require large, dedicated rooms and complex installations, but now, in a new step towards bringing the technology out of the lab, researchers have designed a prototype quantum computer that is compact enough to fit in ordinary data center racks. If this thing works it will put us right up there with the invention of electricity … first man in space.
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Pro-privacy browser Brave, which has been testing its own brand search engine for several months — operating a waitlist where brave (ha!) early adopters could kick the tyres of an upstart alternative in internet search — has now launched the tool, Brave Search, in global beta. At last I can search "how to kill child, fork, python" in peace.
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Many organizations are now relying on voice assistant systems to handle enquiries, but just as with other forms of information it's important to protect the consumer and the proprietary data that flows through voice. Siri, what is "jealousy?"
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The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG)—parent organization of the better-known Let's Encrypt project—has provided prominent developer Miguel Ojeda with a one-year contract to work on Rust in Linux and other security efforts on a full-time basis. The simplest way to avoid C-language coding traps is to avoid coding in C.
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By the end of 2024, passengers on the London Underground will have mobile reception across the entire network of stations and tunnels, London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. At last, my candy can be crushed while on the Tube.
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