Collaborate Disseminate
This is the longest time we’ve spent outside the U.S. I was hoping it would provide some clarity, but I only have some answers and, predictably, even more questions.
As I write this, we’ve been in Mexico City for almost three months, and we still have … Continue reading From the Editor’s Desktop: People Matters (Premium)
As Rust approaches its 10th anniversary, “there is an important piece of documentation missing that many other languages provide,” notes the Rust Foundation.
While there’s documentation and tutorials — there’s no official language specification:… Continue reading How Rust Finally Got a Specification – Thanks to a Consultancy’s Open-Source Donation
On March 26, DataBreaches linked to reporting by the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Their report indicated that the local government had not notified residents of a data breach potentially affecting 14,000 people despite having been notified of the inci… Continue reading Shoot the Messenger, Sunday Edition: Reporting on a leak is not unethical, Hamilton County
A former Facebook director of global policy recently published “the book Meta doesn’t want you to read,” a scathing takedown of top Meta executives titled Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.
But Wednesday RestofWorl… Continue reading What that Facebook Whistleblower’s Memoir Left Out
Anyone will tell you that as hard as it is to create a working system, the real trick is making two systems talk to each other, especially if you created …read more Continue reading Protocol Analyzer Remembered
Well, this certainly isn’t what I expected to be talking about this week! But I think the fact it was someone most people didn’t expect to be on the receiving end of an attack like this makes it all the more consumable. I saw a lot
The New York Times notes that white-collar workers
have faced higher unemployment than other groups in the U.S. over the past few years — along with slower wager growth.
Some economists wonder if this trend might be irreversible… and partly … Continue reading Has the Decline of Knowledge Worker Jobs Begun?
“After a long run, Google is sunsetting two of its signature Nest products,” reports PC World:
Google has just announced that it’s discontinuing the 10-year-old Nest Protect and the 7-year-old Nest x Yale lock. Both of those products will continue to … Continue reading Google Sunsets Two Devices From Its Nest Smart Home Product Line
Cloud providers like the security of running things in virtual machines “at scale” — even though VMs “are not known for having fast cold starts or a small footprint…” noted Microsoft’s Open Source blog last November. So Microsoft’s Azure Core U… Continue reading Microsoft Announces ‘Hyperlight Wasm’: Speedy VM-Based Security at Scale with a WebAssembly Runtime
Another day, another Internet-connected gadget that gets abandoned by its creators. This time it’s Jooki — a screen-free audio player that let kids listen to music and stories by placing …read more Continue reading Can Hackers Bring Jooki Back to Life?