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Answering the question: How'd we get to this breeding ground of meh--and how can you crush it before it crushes you? You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well, you might find you get what something mediocre that gets jammed into everything
OK, those lyrics might not work as well as the original
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A new report from Imperva finds that 49.6 percent of all internet traffic came from bots in 2023, a two percent increase over the previous year, and the highest level since the company began monitoring automated traffic in 2013. And most of that is just me
...beep...beep
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Microsoft's third preview of .NET 9 sees a lot of minor tweaks and fixes with no earth-shaking new functionality, but little things can be important to individual developers. In the future, .NET will provide features targeting individual developers
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The XZ Utils backdoor that recently sent ripples of concern through the Linux community may have only been the beginning. Who will maintain the maintainers?
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.NET 8 is a big step forward for building and using containers, with improvements for performance, security, and usability. dotnet wrap -add bow
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This article is a distraction. You should get back to your work! Or not? Allow me to distract you for a moment
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Return with me to the Glory Days of Windows XP, which apparently some people, somehow, are still using even though support for it ended in...2014. If it is broke, why fix it?
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The real XP percentage might be higher than reported. The figures are probably based on information gathered from the web. In the days when I was using XP, the great majority of my PC use was offline. Essentially, I read email, not much more. We frowned at those spending hours jumping from one web page to the other; we didn't have time for that (and didn't see much value in it).
I wouldn't be surprised if there are lots of XP systems around that never connects to the internet. The tasks they do have no need for it. They are completely invisible in statistics based on web counting.
XP marked a revolution in stability and functionality. It was a good system. There are good reasons why so many stuck to it for a long, long time. (I did myself, not switching to Win7 until I got the need for a software package available only in 64 bit version.)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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A new report from AND Digital suggests hundreds of CEOs based in the United Kingdom are now afraid of artificial intelligence (AI) taking their jobs, but remain on the fence about exactly what to do next. Bring in the Boss-o-matic 3000!
Who would have thought that the face-eating leopards would come for our faces?
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Now that humanoids are all the rage in the robotics industry, Boston Dynamics on Tuesday officially retired theirs. Put them down before they come for us
Especially the guy with the hockey stick that keeps poking it to test if it will fall over
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Users watching YouTube videos through an ad blocking app could encounter performance issues or an error message. You WILL stay tuned for this message from our sponsor
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The company explains that someone used AI voice-cloning tech to spoof the voice of its CEO in an attempt to trick one of its employees. Fortunately, the CEO wasn't Stephen Hawking
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In recent years, Microsoft has been hit with a series of embarrassing hacks that have exposed corporate and government customers. Even the bugs have backward compatibility
I mean, it's almost like it's the #1 OS and productivity software suite so that most of the hackers attack their software. Almost.
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Those aren't bugs, they're features.
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The blinder leading the inept. We're so dead.
Legislators drafting measures "to make it all stop, we're unhappy" 
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A nifty HDD disassembly tool, sure, but we also have a larger global need for magnets. Shake, shake, shake. Shake your boot disc
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Generative AI has advanced and developed so rapidly that even Bill Gates believes it could eventually take his job. Poor guy. I hope he has enough saved up to retire
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Only deranged AI would try to do Gates's current "job".
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Ohh! Great idea! AI fully animating (and vocalizing) Bill's avatar in the Metaverse! Nothing like a crappy experience in a crappy environment!  (Or two avatars, playing both lead roles in Dumb & Dumber, or a Beavis and Butt-Head sketch.)
(Would be one more reason to not join the Metaverse! )
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Microsoft has announced the upcoming end of support (EOS) date for Office 2016 and Office 2019 apps, along with related productivity servers. All of those apps will no longer be supported after October 14, 2025. They were still supported?
I could also ask, "There are newer version of Office?"
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Microsoft has finally lifted a compatibility hold blocking Windows 10 users from updating to Windows 11 on systems with Intel Smart Sound Technology (SST) audio drivers and Intel 11th Gen Core processors. For those about to reboot, we salute you
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A new report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), which studies AI trends, found that global investment in AI fell for the second year in a row in 2023. How nice of them to join us
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The culture that promotes innovation and helps engineering teams to move fast Don't blame me if you disagere
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Finding and correcting root causes, rather than assigning blame, makes for a good working environment (and good software) as long as incompetence is not overly tolerated.
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