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Microsoft has migrated several internal services running on the Azure cloud from .NET Framework to .NET 6, which the company claims has reduced the cost of cloud infrastructure by 29%, while simultaneously increasing performance and latency reduction by up to 50%. Because you know they hate that cloud provider
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Always, always, always trust your salespeople, folks! They only have your best interests at heart.
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Linux 6.0 is a major new kernel number, but doesn't represent big fundamental changes. That's coming in Linux 6.1. And not a new icon in sight
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While some companies are seeing an increase in optical drives sales(opens in new tab), generally speaking the days of the DVD drive are well and truly over—but what to do with those leftover drives? For very small sharks?
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There are all too many examples of Artificial Stupidity in new (and allegedly improved) bureaucratic computer systems, often out-sourced to companies that supposedly know what they're doing, which subject their users to serious difficulties that force weird, time-consuming, and unsanctioned (or even illegal) work-arounds. Validating names deemed difficult
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A new phishing technique using Chrome's Application Mode feature allows threat actors to display local login forms that appear as desktop applications, making it easier to steal credentials. Because we never do learn
"Let's add these features to make automating stuff so much easier! What do you mean, the bad guys are using it?" GOTO 10
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A global survey of 600 C-level executives conducted by CloudBees found that when it comes to building software, more than three-quarters of respondents said it is more important to be secure and compliant than fast and compliant. And anything for the annual bonus
I have the strong feeling this is "response bias" in action - where they respond with the desired result, not how they'd really react.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Business leaders will trade speed for security
..and blame developers for the lack of security.
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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Kent, don't be so cynical; didn't you know that saying "security is important" makes it happen?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: saying "security is important" makes it happen
From "The Mikado":
Koko: It’s like this: When your Majesty says, ‘Let a thing be done,’ it’s as good as done – practically, it is done – because your Majesty’s will is law. Your Majesty says, ‘Kill a gentleman,’ and a gentleman is told off to be killed. Consequently, that gentleman is as good as dead – practically, he is dead – and if he is dead, why not say so?
Mikado: I see. Nothing could possibly be more satisfactory!
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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Kardashian touted EthereumMax on Instagram without revealing she was paid $250,000. You had me at "never listen to 'celebrities'"
I hope the only time I ever have to type that name here
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I thought she was going to get a law degree. Maybe she hasn't got to that class yet.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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She has the degree... now she's trying to pass the CA bar exam. 
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Google Japan has a history of joke keyboard concepts that challenge common notions of computing input. The latest concept, the Gboard Stick Version, places every key in the same row, so hunting and pecking can take a more linear approach. No more hunting and pecking, now hiking and seeking
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If they are shelling out money for implementing joke concepts now, I've got a few...
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Doesn't go far enough, should have had 2 keys for each letter that way you don't need the shift key.
Pianists might not mind the thing though. Which fuels the imagination, Liberace typing a letter or Jerry Lee Lewis.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Doesn't go far enough, should have had 2 keys for each letter that way you don't need the shift key.
I have to say that that might not be such a bad idea, in the right implementation.
I'm off to patent it. What do you mean, you thought of it first?
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I'm always happy to see an overpaid arrogant exec fired, for whatever reason.
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Was I the only one who got the used care salesman vibes?
(And the guy at a party who makes you think, "well, this was a big mistake.")
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Microsoft said it's working on an accelerated schedule to roll out a patch. To be on the safe side, don't send, accept, or read any email until it's fixed
You have my word* that your boss will be OK with that.
* Not valid in any jurisdiction. Do not take my word on anything. Not even this. Really - why are you still reading? Completely worthless words are all I do.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Completely worthless words are all I do.
Not agree with that. There are some monitors that took a coffee shower and some people that were taken as nuts due / thanks to your word here and the newsletter.
And that is worth a lot in the world we live.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft details how hackers are using easily available tools and non-existent job offers to trick developers and IT workers. Beware of hackers bearing jobs
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