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A loud sound emitted by a fire alarm system has destroyed the hard drives of a Swedish data center, downing Nasdaq operations across Northern Europe.
The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday, April 19, and was caused by a gas-based fire alarm system that are typically deployed in data centers because of their ability to put out fires without destroying non-burnt equipment.
These systems work by releasing inert gas at high speeds, a mechanism usually accompanied by a loud whistle-like sound. With non-calibrated systems, this sound can get very loud, a big no-no in data centers, where loud sounds are known to affect performance, shut down, or even destroy hard drives.
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One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command. "A fool and his money are soon parted"
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Germany's supreme court has dismissed a landmark case brought by a publisher looking to destroy ad-blocking services in the country. I'd hate to think I was breaking the law (breaking the law. Duh DUH)
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Facebook has taken the lion's share of scrutiny from Congress and the media about data-handling practices that allow savvy marketers and political agents to target specific audiences, but it's far from alone. Search them.
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Did the job offer give you a title of "data scientist" but the work is more like data scullerymaid? Oh, dear, you fell for a shiny bauble of a job description! Here’s how to identify when the job description doesn’t match the job duties. That's when I learned that 'lead developer' has nothing to do with plumbing fixtures
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Okay, though overly long, article with, ironically, an error in the title: it's not about job titles but job descriptions.
I "love" the "must be a self-starter" job description, only to end up working for a micro-manager.
It's not always negative. For my current job, I was hired to write an embedded controller. By noon the first day, that project was cancelled and I took over a graphically intense client application. It's been fun, though, and my current project has long-term potential the original project simply didn't have. I also have more control over the [new] project that I expected on day two.
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We’re currently planning our next major .NET releases and would love to hear your feedback on how you interact with .NET Framework and .NET Core today. Tell them what they want to hear, and you might just get it
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Make C# capable of doing this please!
Hi Compiler.
Create a web application for my startup.
What does it do? Analyzes data.
Thanks;
Thanks MS! 
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Ah! Reminds me of someone who advocated use of "Plain English" programming here at Code Project many years ago. Can't google it now - it's probably purged.
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I guess fixing bugs in System.Drawing/GDI+ isn't sexy?
Wout
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You know the two-factor authentication tokens, the ephemeral, six-digit numbers you use as a second layer of security when logging into, say, your email? They're all written in the same factory as fortune cookie fortunes!
935545 - in bed!
Hilarity!
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A retired professor published a white paper earlier this month proposing a new class of math that could lead to the birth of machine consciousness. "Once you know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means"
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Quote: The algorithm involves a hierarchy of classes, parts of physical objects, and subroutines. The loops of these graphs are eliminated by replacing each by a single “equivalence class” node. Independent subproblems are automatically identified to simplify the matrix operations that implement fuzzy logic inference. Properties are inherited to subclasses, locations and directions are inherited relative to the center points of physical objects, and planning graphs are used to combine subroutines.
Alternatively, we could just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Palantir, Peter Thiel [^]Quote: High above the Hudson River in downtown Jersey City, a former U.S. Secret Service agent named Peter Cavicchia III ran special ops for JPMorgan Chase & Co. His insider threat group—most large financial institutions have one—used computer algorithms to monitor the bank’s employees, ostensibly to protect against perfidious traders and other miscreants.
Aided by as many as 120 “forward-deployed engineers” from the data mining company Palantir Technologies Inc., which JPMorgan engaged in 2009, Cavicchia’s group vacuumed up emails and browser histories, GPS locations from company-issued smartphones, printer and download activity, and transcripts of digitally recorded phone conversations. Palantir’s software aggregated, searched, sorted, and analyzed these records, surfacing keywords and patterns of behavior that Cavicchia’s team had flagged for potential abuse of corporate assets. Palantir’s algorithm, for example, alerted the insider threat team when an employee started badging into work later than usual, a sign of potential disgruntlement. That would trigger further scrutiny and possibly physical surveillance after hours by bank security personnel.
Over time, however, Cavicchia himself went rogue. Former JPMorgan colleagues describe the environment as Wall Street meets Apocalypse Now, with Cavicchia as Colonel Kurtz, ensconced upriver in his office suite eight floors above the rest of the bank’s security team. People in the department were shocked that no one from the bank or Palantir set any real limits. They darkly joked that Cavicchia was listening to their calls, reading their emails, watching them come and go. Some planted fake information in their communications to see if Cavicchia would mention it at meetings, which he did.
It all ended when the bank’s senior executives learned that they, too, were being watched, and what began as a promising marriage of masters of big data and global finance descended into a spying scandal. The misadventure, which has never been reported, also marked an ominous turn for Palantir, one of the most richly valued startups in Silicon Valley. An intelligence platform designed for the global War on Terror was weaponized against ordinary Americans at home.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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We are all waiting for the sequel now! 
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I suppose they have learned from this error.
Next time you won't know about it 
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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BillWoodruff wrote: a former U.S. Secret Service agent named Peter Cavicchia III ran special ops for JPMorgan Chase & Co
Never go against a Sicilian when surveillance is on the line!
(With apologies to William Goldman, The Princess Bride)
Ad astra - both ways!
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Google's Project Zero team reveals Windows 10 lockdown bypass despite requests from Microsoft. The 'S' stands for 'Secure'!
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It’s easy to learn to be a coder. But knowing how to code isn’t enough to get and keep a real job in software development I always knew I was a fake developer (/eyeroll)
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RSA Conference attendee contact data extracted using hard-coded API data. "Do as I say, not as I do"
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Sometimes sensitive data, like passwords or keys that unlock encrypted communications, are accidentally left open for anybody to see. Or, you know, don't do it in the first place?
But I suppose best laid plans, etc.
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Alibaba is developing its own neural network chip, the Ali-NPU, which will be used in AI applications, such as image video analysis, machine learning, and other scenarios Is it open (sesame)?
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Google removed a number of fake ad blockers from its Chrome store after an AdGuard researcher discovered that these extensions concealed malicious scripts. But did they block ads?
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The menu bar has been, and in my opinion remains, the best mechanism for providing familiarity, discoverability, and progressive disclosure in user interfaces on any platform. Not the bar menu
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Even if you really wanted to buy a Windows phone, Microsoft has run out of Windows Phone devices to sell to you. They're now collector's items?
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