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Ransomware victims have paid $459,800,000 to cybercriminals in the first half of 2024, setting the stage for a new record this year if ransom payments continue at this level. Just in case you were wondering why the bad guys keep at this
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And tht's only counting the companies that are known of paying...
I do wonder... how many of those companies are every year in the calculations?
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Platform engineering is the latest buzzword in IT operations. And like all other buzzwords, it’s in danger of becoming meaningless—in danger of meaning whatever some company with a “platform engineering” product wants to sell. Meet the new silver bullet, same as the old silver bullet
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Smartwatches might be good for tracking steps and heart rates, but they can also offer hackers a wealth of personal information to exploit, according to a new Charles Darwin University (CDU) study. tldr; Yup
Today I learned that somehow a Charles Darwin University evolved (in Australia of course. It's probably venomous.)
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If it is online, it will get hacked. Period
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The signal, recorded in 1977, was at first suspected to be an alien transmission. It was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with a lead pipe
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Everybody remembers Colonel Mustard, but who remembers any of the other characters?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Mrs White, Miss Peacock, uhm, Professor Plum. Miss Scarlet.
I do forget the blue guy (Oh, wait, that was Miss Peacock? Or was she Mrs.?), and if there are any others...
TTFN - Kent
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"Oh, wait, that was Miss Peacock? Or was she Mrs.?"
After and before the events in question, respectively.
It's never explicitly mentioned that he was a Mr. Peacock but we can make a case thusly.
Mr Green was a bit of descriptive metaphor as nickname. Peacocks have the big green eye at the ends of their feathers.
Mr Green was known to keep an eye on things. This is likely what shortened his time and shuffled him from the mortal coil.
At the funeral, Professor Plum leaned into Miss Peacock and asked if he could say a word. She said "of course!"
So he stood up and said "plethora" and sat back down.
Miss Peacock leaned over to him and whispered, "thanks, that means a lot".
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with a lead pipe
And there I was thinking it was Professor Plum in the kitchen with the badly-shielded microwave.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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UK government believes its proposed "right to switch off" will bring crucial economic and productivity benefits to the country, while also improving the well-being of workers. Less work is good work?
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Less work might not be good work,
but work during work hours and then have spare time... is a different question.
First thing I do when I say "enough for today" is to switch off my work smartphone, even before switching off my laptop
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We’ve added some fantastic new features and enhancements to Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 that will help you find and resolve bugs faster and easier than ever before. Not as many references to AI as I would have expected
"Auto-decompile" sounds helpful. Rude, but helpful.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Not as many references to AI as I would have expected They are probably trying to use other forms to refer to it
Article wrote:: that will help you find and resolve bugs faster and easier than ever before. That sounds pretty implied AI for me
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A website linked to National Public Data’s massive breach was storing passwords for its back-end database in a file that anyone could’ve accessed. Maybe requiring a license to program isn't such a bad idea after all
Or maybe at least leave their personal phone number in the database.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe requiring a license to program isn't such a bad idea after all Maybe hiring good specialists instead of cheap ones isn't such a bad idea after all
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Blocking Alphabet Inc.’s Google the way sites have blocked some of its AI competitors would also hamper a site’s ability to be discovered online. "So you have chosen...death."
I'm sure regulators will be all "OK, fine and dandy" with that.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Blocking Alphabet Inc.’s Google the way sites have blocked some of its AI competitors would also hamper a site’s ability to be blatantly quoted by Google, with pass through links difficult to find.
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David O'Neil wrote: blatantly mis-quoted by Google
FTFY.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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PowerToys Workspaces will get all your apps up and running where you want them with a single click. Feng shui your desktop
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And how does it know how I like my apps arranged?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Oh boy! Can't wait to be told how I like my apps arranged.
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