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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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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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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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The US bested Pakistan in a nail-biting match at the T20 Cricket World Cup on Thursday, thanks in part to the athleticism of a lead engineer at Oracle. You see what happens when you pay for the support contract?
TTFN - Kent
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 Been making fun of my Pakistani colleague for a couple days now. I know virtually nothing about cricket, but I know that getting beat by the US is pretty cringeworthy.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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A joke being heard in India:
It is actually a team of H1B visa holders in the US, which is currently playing cricket against the other national teams.
Well ... this is not a joke, this is more of a reality.
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Fewer and fewer pages are being printed at home and in the office, posing something of a challenge for HP and its rivals. Breaking news: COVID causes not printing!
Maybe the vaccine will make people print more?
And of course the fact that HP knows just how much people are printing has nothing to do with their ink (and toner) cartridges phoning home.
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Must be time to raise their subscription prices. /s (but not really /s, as it is probably in the works) 
No more HP for me!!!! Ever again!!!!
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Soon, the list of Microsoft apps that can get to newer versions via Windows Update will expand with a new entry: Visual Studio. So you'll have yet another reason to fear Windows Update
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Just wait until some CEO decides to use it to force update old versions to new...
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Microsoft has been quietly publishing quite a few guides on its official website lately. So you can learn how to do something you didn't want to do in the first place
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But you can then use a simple PIN as a password!!! Come on now!!! Who wouldn't want that???
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Six numbers beats any 12 character password with special characters and various case! 
TTFN - Kent
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And 1 + 1 = Apple!
Now you understand! This new math is great! Hive mind uber allas!
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Quote: Blackadder: Right Baldrick, let's try again shall we? This is called adding. If I have two beans, and then I add two more beans, what do I have?
Baldrick: Some beans.
Blackadder: Yes... and no. Let's try again shall we? I have two beans, then I add two more beans. What does that make?
Baldrick: A very small casserole.
Blackadder: Baldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this. Now try again. One, two, three, four. So how many are there?
Baldrick: Three.
Blackadder: What?
Baldrick: ...and that one.
Blackadder: Three and that one. So if I add that one to the three what will I have?
Baldrick: Oh! Some beans.
Blackadder: Yes. To you Baldrick, the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?
"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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Microsoft wants you to stop using the UWP Mail app and switch to the new Outlook as soon as possible, but there’s a catch – the new Outlook doesn’t work offline properly. Like it did in Outlook 97? (and every version since - except the current, of course)
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Don't worry - AI will soon have the problem corrected.
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Researchers are ringing the alarm bells, warning that companies like OpenAI and Google are rapidly running out of human-written training data for their AI models. But if we continue to get dumber, won't they appear smarter in comparison?
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Sprints promise to accelerate development, but often do the opposite. Check out this alternative approach to building software. Try a stroll instead
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We’re excited to share more detailed plans around Microsoft’s collaboration with OpenAI on their official .NET library. All the AI they want you to have, now in a handy C# package
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Following massive customer pushback after it announced the new AI-powered Recall for Copilot+ PCs last month, Microsoft says it will update the feature to be more secure and require customers to opt in to enable it. Just a little bit of complaining is all it takes to do what they should have done in the first place
Of course "in the first place" should have been not bothering to create the feature, but what are you going to do?
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With PoC code available and active Internet scans, speed is of the essence. Good thing no one relies on that language anymore
Just 40% of the internet or something like that
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just 40% of the internet or something like that
According to the article, this bug only affects PHP on Windows, so I suspect the real fraction is rather lower. It also seems to require certain East Asian locales to be active.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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