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Security researchers are reporting that a “significant volume of data” has been stolen from hundreds of Snowflake cloud storage customers via compromised login credentials, with the incident being linked to massive data breaches at Ticketmaster and Santander Bank. But all the breaches are unique
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Starting on September 16, Outlook personal accounts will no longer support signing into them with what the company calls Basic Authentication, which is the old-fashioned user name and password method. All you're getting is my name, rank, and serial number
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MS has already eliminated basic authentication for Microsoft 365 based email accounts. This is the completion of this process. What the article didn't mention is that Basic Authentication isn't guaranteed to be encrypted.
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Apple debuts new catchall AI branding, generative features during WWDC 2024 keynote. Get it? It's still AI. Oh, what clever elephants.
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A new survey of 1,000 finance and engineering professionals in the US reveals that 58 percent of respondents say their cloud costs are too high. And the pendulum swings back the other way...
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Fear rising life costs could mean... Work harder, not smarter??? 
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So they are saying that they are having a hard time ... keeping their head in the clouds?
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Apple at WWDC today announced a new Calculator app as part of iPadOS 18 that features special Apple Pencil support and a maths notes feature. Sorry all other OSes, you've lost.
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Wonder if theres a setting where you have to write your equation like some of the old HP calculators?
Or how about a learning mode where you have to show your work?
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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As long as it uses perfectly rounded buttons to implement those features.
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What new radical thing is next? WordPad?
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Scientists say there's a one-in-10 chance that these advanced creatures actually exist. Sure, they "may" be, or the scientists "may" be kookoo
We report, you decide.
Let's just say I don't think these folk will be winning the Nobel anytime soon. Probably not even a Hugo.
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The Rust community doubled its number of users over the past two years -- from two million in the first quarter of 2022 to four million in the first quarter of 2024. Rust always wins, in the long run
It never sleeps, for one reason
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A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Beware of Dracula
(or rather Darcula)
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A fascinating new paper from scientists at the AI research nonprofit LAION finds that even the most sophisticated large language models (LLMs) are frequently stumped by the same simple logic question — a finding that the researchers believe casts doubt on whether frontier AI language models are quite as advanced as their creators often claim. "Computer. This is a Class-A compulsory directive. Compute, to the last digit, the value of pi."
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Kirk: Hey ChatGPT, Harry here lies all the time. Now listen to his next statement.
Harry Mudd: I am lying.
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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"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
AI: It has three sisters.
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"What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" 
"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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Asking a bloated T9 to solve anything is asinine in the first place.
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
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Microsoft has quietly frozen the rollout of Windows 11 24H2 to Windows Insiders on the Release Preview Channel. It was only half baked
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I knew the Windows kernel was old, but I didn't think code would rust.
Richard Speed wrote: he update included goodies like Wi-Fi 7 support, Sudo for Windows, Rust in the Windows kernel,
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A study claims to have proof of what some have suspected: return to office mandates are just back-channel layoffs and post-COVID work culture is making everyone miserable. And a quarter of employees want their boss to quit (+/- 75%)
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Layoff = employee goes to competitor. Long term thinking is not a middle manalger strong suit.
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
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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