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I wanted to loo smart and sassy saying that this is the year of Linux desktop but apparently ZDNet preempted me.
Linux has become such a joke. Worst part? It's starting to become as unpredictable as Widows in term of kernel loading and driver initialization.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Chrome might be the most popular browser in existence, but that doesn’t make it the most secure. I guess the Google security engineers need to spend more time looking in house before throwing stones?
By being the most popular, I would expect it to be under the heaviest attack.
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It comes with built-in spyware and methods to track the user to fuel G's bottom line, what would you expect?
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I find it interesting that MS-Edge, which is built on the same Chromium rendering engine has one third the vulnerabilities as Chrome. Compare this to Google's claim that Chromium Edge wasn't as secure as Chromium Chrome when Microsoft released Chromium Edge. Sounds like my response, "If Edge isn't secure then Chrome isn't secure." was prophetic.
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Does edge really only have 1/3rd the vulnerabilities of Chrome, or do 2/3rds of the common vulns just not get reported to Edge or any of it's forks?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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This is actually a good question. I suspect the answer is that the Chromium rendering engine is relatively bug free as it's used by several browsers now. It's the code around the rendering engine that's different for each browser and frankly, based on memory usage Google's is atrocious and bloated, which frequently translates into more bugs. These differences are why Google initially claimed that Edge wasn't as secure as Chrome because Edge doesn't use Google's security services.
The flip side of this is how many bugs in Edge are reported as bugs in the underlying Windows OS?
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Celsius Exposes User Information in Public Court Docs - Blockworks
Quote: A filing submitted to court on Wednesday contains over 14,500 pages that include co-founders Alex Mashinsky, Dan Leon and Nuke Goldstein’s financial transactions. But it also lists customer names, date of transaction, type of account, which cryptoasset and how much of it was involved.
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I can't see how secrecy could have been touted here. Celsius was subject to KYC (Know Your Customer) laws, so they had to vet all their customers. They wanted the names to be redacted from the documents that they filed with the court but were refused. The doxing is therefore the fault of KYC laws and the court.
The crypto crowd says this is a problem with CeFi (centralized finance), the model under which Celsius operated. DeFi (decentralized finance) is supposed to be immune to this. But even the names behind its anonymous "wallet" addresses can slowly be revealed by getting someone to disclose who they transacted with. This allows a growing network of transactions to be traced whenever another user in the skein can be coaxed into cooperating with investigators.
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Blockchain is public. You are anonymous as long as nothing links a wallet to a person (orders, exchange, NFTs, whatever).
I'm following many investigations where scammers are getting caught due to the publicity of blockchain. Services like Torn***C*** (sorry but I won't explicitly advertise it) are well known money laundering services but the chances of them not being already infiltrated by public officials are slim. And as anybody who ever had to do with organized crime knows, it's better to do a large scale operation once because after that everyone would escape and lie low, wasting the cost of investigation.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
modified 10-Oct-22 10:22am.
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Low-code has many benefits, and they’ve been widely discussed in a number of articles here on SD Times, but one area in which they don’t really have an edge is security. Obvious statements are obvious
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"Lower the drawbridge" code! 
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Low code means more security risks because the tools that build the code from models use the same algorithm and same codebase so a single vulnerability in the generated code will propagate to all products using that technology.
Many environment require strict (and expensive) validation procedures for every software version, massive product recalls and may have issues on no longer supported platforms. Low code on other systems (i.e. web pages) is even worse due to the lack of all of the above, leaving many sites lying around unsecured for ages until a massive data breach is discovered.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Microsoft has found that some Windows 11 virtualization features can impact gaming performance, and is providing instructions for gamers to disable them — at their own risk. If your pew-pew is more important than your safety
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Meaningfully measuring performance is one of the hardest tasks for team managers in Agile environments. (KLoC/fortnight)-([bugs in backlog]*e)
Because every good equation needs 'e'
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Quote: A recent survey by BCG found that 70% of digital transformation projects fail because of three main reasons: unrealistic expectations, lack of technical documentation and forgetting about customers.
Digital transformation projects?! Reason #4: Managers who can't communicate in plain English.
And it links to the article that reports on the survey, so let's take a look:
Quote: Digital transformations are an imperative as today’s leading corporations need to build bionic capabilities in order to harness the potential of disruptive technologies and integrate them into new processes, organization models, and ways of working.
Bionic capabilities?! That's yet another link, but I'm out already.  is wrong with these people?!
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Greg Utas wrote: Bionic capabilities
Oscar Goldman Quote: We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better, than he was. Better, stronger, faster.
For those old enough to remember.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Sadly, I'm old enough, which may partly explain why I found it so jarring.
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Quote: A recent survey by BCG found that 70% of digital transformation projects fail because of three main reasons: unrealistic expectations, lack of technical documentation and forgetting about customers.
so basically nothing has changed for the last 20 years...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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The half dozen companies have signed an open letter pledging not to weaponize their platforms. One Law of Robotics down, three to go
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Yeah, I think they're already out of the horse pen, or however that expression is supposed to go.
TTFN - Kent
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But... have they asked it with "please, please, please"?
as if the ones that would abuse it would "listen" to such an open letter...  
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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Like Google's "Don't be evil"?
That lasted until Mammon turned up
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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So what will they do when the Chinese and Russians build war robots?
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The data in this survey tried to gauge the number of systems out there in the enterprise space that were actually ready for Windows 11 and its stringent system requirements. I just can't imagine why there's such a lack of urgency
Without looking it up, tell me 3 features of Win11 that aren't in Win10. (OK, diminished task bar and start menu features. I guess they count?)
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