I recommend you move to Firefox or another browser not based upon Chromium.
Source:Google’s Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin
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Secure systems do not have backdoors
There’s no such thing as a backdoor that only works when ‘good guys’ use it.
Brief: A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests.
Source: Exclusive | U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack – WSJ (archived due to paywall)
SRDS Day 1
Notes from the 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2024)
Source: SRDS Day 1
Owning The Software You Purchased Is Not an Innovation
Announcing consumer software that doesn’t require a subscription shouldn’t be treated as an innovation.
This is how it’s supposed to work.
Source: Office LTSC 2024 is now available – Microsoft Community Hub
The Emperor Has No Clothes But It Apparently Doesn’t Matter
“90% of the Bitcoin network’s mining power is well-coordinated enough to show up together at the same conference…
Bitcoin’s blockchain is actually contolled by a single huge mining pool operating through a set of subsiduaries – this pool is controlled by Bitmain.”
An unfortunate perspective on the future of foundation models
“Open-source models empower our adversaries, and will reach increasingly negative ROI for model builders and developers.”
Source: The future of foundation models is closed-source.
gRPC for Windows
I recently posted a comparison of gRPC and REST.
Today Microsoft announced gRPC support for Azure App Service for Windows:
Application Insights for Azure Logic Apps – Correlation Tracking
I remember hacking up a very early prototype of something like this. It’s nice to see this capability finally added to the platform.
The return of UDDI and RegRep
This is nothing new to us old school ebXML geeks
Source: Azure API Center: Your Comprehensive API Inventory and Governance Solution – Microsoft Community Hub
Jared Bernstein, Chair of US Council of Economic Advisers, can’t explain why Gov borrows its own money
This video left me speechless. Everyone needs to see it.
Probably the most frightening clip you’ll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy.
Source: Jared Bernstein, Chair of Council of Economic Advisers, can’t explain why Gov borrows its own Money!
