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Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite — a critical technology validation for the company, potentially opening the door to connecting millions more devices anywhere in the world. The hardest part was pressing the pairing button on both satellites at the same time
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The United Kingdom has introduced a new law that bans generic passwords on smart devices in order to protect consumers from cyber attacks. Let the users set the generic passwords instead
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How do you enforce that? And what constitutes a "generic" password? Is "generic" itself a "generic" password.
I guess they could require password checks like the DoD does. We had to compare passwords to a dictionary and then make sure they had the "Two Upper, two lower, two digits, two specials" stuff and then make sure there weren't certain pattern like more that 3 consecutive ascending or descending digits, no set of three or more single characters ("aaa" or "lll" or "777").
STiGs was the DoD name for those type rules. It was a pain.
Also reminded me of the Howie Mandel cartoon Bobby's World. Their last name was spelled Generic but pronounced Jen-ur-ick.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Artificial intelligence engineers at top tech companies told CNBC that the pressure to roll out AI tools at breakneck speed has come to define their jobs. Have they tried using an AI assistant?
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Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI – a developer that uses an AI chatbot to generate infrastructure – and the rotten recipes are already appearing at the top of search results. Who could have foretold this happening? AI Dev Edition
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Good, more job security for the real programmers among us.
I wish. I am one of the 8000 "effected employees" of the SAP restructuring. They wiped out the entire office of developers where I am, because they didn't want micro-sites. That was the entire team that supported one of the products that was generating 9 figure revenue for the company.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Using the generic architecture you saw at a conference for your company's unique business needs is a surefire way to waste money and time. But it worked in PowerPoint!
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Microsoft’s security overhaul and goals are now linked to leadership compensation. Fool me once, etc.
“We will instill accountability by basing part of the compensation of the company’s Senior Leadership Team on our progress in meeting our security plans and milestones.” <-- the Windows VP may end up paying the company for their continuing employment
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CISA and the FBI urged software companies today to review their products and eliminate path traversal security vulnerabilities before shipping. Security is the path least travelled
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Andrej Karpathy muses about sending a LLM binary that could "wake up" and answer questions. Let the aliens get all the 'authoritative, but wrong' answers about us
It should keep them from coming to investigate
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It should keep them from coming to investigate
ISTR a short story about aliens who picked up one of the Voyager probes, discovered the naked sketches of humans on the data disk, and sent an armada to destroy those perverted creatures who dare expose their bodies to the Universe. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Bad enough they want Skynet here, now they're suggesting SkyNetToGo?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Quote: Microsoft on Friday provided a peek at a comprehensive framework that aims to sort out the Domain Name System (DNS) mess so that it’s better locked down inside Windows networks.
Ars Technica [^]
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All your URL are belong to us!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A new report shows that CISOs find it difficult to communicate threats to the C-suite, which is leaving gaps in the organization’s understanding of cyberrisk. Suddenly, our current situation makes more sense
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where is that vocabulary "management <> nerd <> management" when you need 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?
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Standardizing review terms avoids miscommunications. todo: Add to-do statement here
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Think of it as Hungarian notation for code review comments.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Shouldn't you just be able to read the comments, kinda like the idea that code should be self documenting? (Which I do not ascribe to in all cases.)
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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In my student days (long ago), I was an intern in a company that was in the process of replacing their medium level (slightly below K&R C) system implementation language with a (proprietary) higher level systems language. The senior developers were eager to adopt it, for one primary reason: It was self documenting, so there was no need to waste time on writing comments.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Just as the initial influx of do-everything large language models (LLMs) have been advancing along with smaller and more specialized AI constructs, the same could happen to Microsoft's coding-specific GitHub Copilot. Coming soon: a Copilot for writing Copilots
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And it began to learn exponentally... 
 
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I can’t see a post about Rust or C++ without comments about Rust replacing C++ If it ain't broke, don't replace it
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We still have VB6 around... haven't we?
M.D.V. 
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