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There's another Chinese-manufactured product – joining the likes of TikTok, cars and semiconductors – that poses a national security risk to Americans: Electronic locks, such as those used in safes. Who needs to pick the locks when you've made them?
I just love this quote, "It would be one thing if these backdoors were only available to US government agencies, but they are not". Ah, priorities.
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But people don't learn...
If something is for free, you are the product.
Corolary: If something is for free, you are the Troy horse.
  
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Well, they do say that locks only keep honest people honest.
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Microsoft is once again injecting pop-ups into Google’s Chrome browser in a bid to get people to switch to Bing. Are you really, really, REALLY sure you don't want to try Bing?
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Injecting, as in 'injecting from the OS', or as 'putting popups on MS sites'? An entire article, and that simple point isn't clarified...  If it is from the OS, wouldn't that be a class actionable offense?
edit - it is the former - the linked article kinda addressed it... Wow! The hubris!
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Yeah, sorry. I should have used the Windows Latest[^] version of the story. They went into a bit more detail:
"In our tests, we noticed that this Bing pop-up isn’t part of a Windows update, and it is possibly linked to either BCILauncher.EXE or BingChatInstaller.EXE, which were added to some systems on March 13.
"Microsoft signs the two files, and you’ll find them inside the c:\windows\temp\mubstemp folder."
TTFN - Kent
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And Microsoft will surely allow Google to drop some signed files into the Windows folder, to do whatever they want. Right? Right?
/s
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Remember when Microsoft was kinda cool? Now they're acting like your aging drunk uncle Bill who can't get any attention anymore.
modified 18-Mar-24 8:32am.
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So - Google pops up everywhere. The only offender worse is Meta.
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Boiling down guidelines to one-sentence rules has drawbacks that make your code harder to understand. "By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist."
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In Spain we say: "Learn all the rules, this way you will know which ones you might break"
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A classic historic example: "Do no evil!"
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For those unfamiliar, Visual Studio App Center is a set of cloud tools and services that help developers create, test, distribute, monitor, and maintain applications on Windows, iOS, Android, and other platforms. I suspect that "for those unfamiliar" is quite the majority
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Is Microsoft getting inspiration from Google?
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Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute, offers some thoughts on the artificial-intelligence-meets-biotech ‘supercycle’ we’re in today. Do we get to decide which one is the evil twin?
I know, I know: both
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Frederik Pohl already saw that in the 70s[^]
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KB5035853 is a new update rolling out as part of the Windows 11 March 2024 Update, and it comes with some notable improvements. Meet the new KB, same as the old KB
I know it's hard for them to test across all the various combinations of hardware out there, but  (besides, isn't that what the various standards they've defined are designed to prevent?)
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Saving money, rather than innovation or modernization demands, is now the leading reason why organizations use open source software, according to OpenLogic's latest report. Cheaper, better, faster - pick one
At least I know which one management picks
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Kent Sharkey wrote: At least I know which one management picks
If you give them the possibility to choose 2 of them, they will probably try to get twice the same 
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Open source is generally cheaper up front but comes with significant maintenance costs that no one likes to talk about. For individuals or small businesses, this is probably ok but for large enterprises those maintenance costs get us the Equifax breach.
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Discover how Zod can help improve your code’s type safety, leading to better software and a smoother development experience. Code before ZOD!
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OpenAI's GPT-2 running locally in Microsoft Excel teaches the basics of how LLMs work. Never mind SkyNet, fear the VLOOKUP
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An impractical bragging-rights CPU tops Intel's 14th-gen desktop lineup. Fastest is not necessarily bestest
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CricLang is a fun programming language created for cricket enthusiasts. I'd add a joke here, but I don't understand cricket well enough
Does anyone? (outside of the UK, Australia, NZ, and India)
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