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A former Amazon engineer who scammed more than $12 million from two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in 2022 was sentenced to three years in prison in a case that the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) called the first conviction for hacking a “smart contract.” He's smarter than the average smart contract (but not smart enough, apparently)
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The internet is carried around the world by hundreds of thousands of miles of slender cables that sit at the bottom of the ocean. It's not all WiFi?
Highly pretentious intro and layout of the article, but a nice look at something that I know I never think of much.
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Very interesting indeed! Thanks for the read!
Quote: “The main issue for me in the industry has to do with hyperscalers coming in and saying we need to reduce costs every year,” said Wilkie, the chair of the ACMA, using the industry term for tech giants like Google and Meta. “We’d all like to have maintenance cheaper, but the cost of running a ship doesn’t actually change much from year to year. It goes up, actually. So there has been a severe lack of investment in new ships.”
They should use the term 'hyperidiots' instead of 'hyperscalers.'
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NASA has confirmed that the object that fell into a Florida home last month was part of a battery pack released from the International Space Station. "Return to sender, address unknown"
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He should buy a lotto ticket. The odds for winning the lotto are better.
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When building apps that connect to APIs, we typically focus on getting the app to work. But what happens when the API is slow, returns errors, or becomes unavailable? When in doubt, add another layer of indirection
Sorry, I'm too lazy to look up the exact quote today.
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The Open Platform for Enterprise AI will spearhead the development of open, robust, multi-provider, and composable GenAI systems that are flexible, scalable, and enterprise-grade. Foundations are the new standards
https://xkcd.com/927/, of course
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Why is it that so many languages use semicolons for their statement terminators Because no one knows how they're supposed to be used?
Or at least few; because I know I'll be corrected by some of you.
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As any Visual Studio Code user knows, the editor's command palette is a powerful tool for getting things done quickly, without having to navigate through menus and dialogs. Who needs THOSE MENUs anyway?
OK, they haven't had THOSE MENUs for years (and they were only around for a short while anyway). But their memory lives on.
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Technically, they still have THOSE MENUS; it's just that the "Apply title case styling to menu bar" option seems to be ticked by default now. 
"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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83% of developers report being involved in devops-related activities, according to the State of CI/CD 2024 report. Most developers would be surprised to hear that, blurb writer says
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It's one of the latest fads and has a nebulous definition, so almost everyone is doing it!
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Another buggy update hit Edge and this time, an 8 KB Microsoft Copilot entry was discovered in the Windows 11 Installed apps list. Methinks the company doth dissemble too much
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FCC plan rejected request to ban what agency calls "positive" discrimination. Pay to play: ISP edition
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Guess someone should blow up ATT again. If they need other ISP addresses, I can google them, hit me up.
If they proceed, I do hope the kids start a massive f***ing riot... electronically.
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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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I believe they have undermeasured significantly.
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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
Edit: fixed link
modified yesterday.
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Thank you. Fixed
TTFN - Kent
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I'm still trying to figure why I should much care about .NET <#odd> if they aren't LTS. Knowing what's coming when it's "real" is good I guess, but they tend towards adjusting it such that you'd have been better off never knowing about it until the final cut so as to avoid future confusion.
I think the release cadence is a bit fast and hope we're not destined for whatever "overdevelopment" in C# that all the C++ gurus were bitching about in their sphere a fair while back.
I've always been a MSFT fanboy. They'd more recently taken .NET a good direction and made some great strides. I hope they're not really going to mess it up by bloating it with nonsense. I also think LTS of 3 years is a year or two short. We're running .NET that's 10 years old in some legacy spots.
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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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Clever boys, put the spotlight on the backdoor and you will never see what's coming from the front door. 
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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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