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Kent Sharkey wrote: What's the term for a feature you discover exists when it gets cancelled?
Google stuff?
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The US government is paying more attention to open source software and memory-safe programming languages, and is requesting input from the private sector. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
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We're taking you to a safe place, it's for your own protection!
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The US Government has been involved in cybersecurity for years. The CIA, FBI, and Secret Service all have cybersecurity divisions that work with companies and in some cases, individuals. CISA is a US Government agency, CERT is funded by the US Government, etc. The only difference now the White House is getting directly involved, which is unfortunately a bad thing in because it'll now bring in even more politics.
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obermd wrote: The US Government has been involved in cybersecurity for years
The question in that is... to help making it safer? Or to find the issues before the rest and exploit it?
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CISA, which is run by the CIA with the support of the FBI and Secret Service assists organizations in recovery from cyberattacks as well as tracking down cybercriminals. CERT maintains a public database of known vulnerabilities and whether or not there are known exploits and/or exploit kits against those vulnerabilities.
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I do not doubt that those help, but there are another parts in the cocktail of letters that are not so nice, aren't there?
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The tool can detect where computer programs waste time and suggest better, more efficient code to speed them up Python exists to create a market for Python speedup techniques
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Python exists to create a market for Python speedup techniques
Is not that what have been happening for centuries with all?
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I think every technology ever invented [has] the potential to become both a tool and a weapon. We have to ensure that AI remains subject to human control. Because no human would weaponize it
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MSFT wrote: We have to ensure that AI remains subject to human control.
As it would be under human control for long... "I, Robot" already shown that even the 3 laws can go south.
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Unlimited GPT-4, encryption, 32K context, and more. Will it become an essential tool? Just like the old ChatGPT, but this one is competing with you for a raise
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just like the old ChatGPT, but this one is competing with you for a raise
Correction: It will be used as excuse to not give you the rise, the money for the license must come from somewhere... and since it is doing part of your job... 
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Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting codes suggests that the task might be slightly more feasible than many feared. So instead of quantum computing being viable in 15 years, it will be viable in about a decade and a half
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So QA will be getting some new 'plz send teh codez' requests?
"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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Quantum style! 
TTFN - Kent
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Actually, I think they'll be "please send or don't send code" requests.
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Cat years. And you know how they like to sleep!
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The error correcting codes relate to a class of 'fault tolerant' algorithms. There are other classes, a bit more heuristic in nature that can run on noisy quantum computers and give reasonable results depending on the actual noise. The community looks first to run this types of algorithms, and indeed in the parallel to create more efficient error correcting codes for the further future
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The research firm anticipates the number of Macs sold to business users worldwide will jump by 20% between this year and 2024. It's The Year of Mac!
Or is it just that it's time for Chris to buy a few new ones for himself?
Have they been smoking what Gartner usually smokes?
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Microsoft no longer offers OneDrive for Business (Plan 2), with new users now capped to 1TB by default When we said "unlimited", we didn't really mean unlimited
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"In response to customer demand ..." What user ever said "Give me less of that for the same money"? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I could think of a few things I'd pay to get less of!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The feature request An option to preview images when they are hovered has gotten some attention lately, and we think it sounds like a great idea. Best of all: it works with icons!
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The Foundational C# Certification is completely free, globally available, and includes a full 35-hour C# training course hosted on Microsoft Learn. Are you certifiable?
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