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Over a century before Allen and Gates wrote their BASIC interpreter, Ada Lovelace wrote and published a computer program. She, too, wrote a program for a computer that had only been described to her. But her program, unlike the Microsoft BASIC interpreter, was never run, because the computer she was targeting was never built. It didn't compile as she forgot a semi-colon on line 15, and misspelled a header filename
And there was no compiler yet
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Microsoft researchers said they’re planning to open-source Open Network Emulator, the system that simulates the entire network that powers the company’s hyperscale cloud platform It's a Post-It note that goes over the power switch (with a big DON'T on it)
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I wonder how long it will take after the make it public until they get the first blackout due to vulnerabilites 
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You can’t afford the salary techies demand? Here are other ways businesses can attract top-quality IT staff—and what job candidates can ask for when "pay me more" is not an option. "Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies!"
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One thing that has worked for 100% of the companies I have worked with in the past is to offer various bonuses based on company performance and so on, talk about how they are usually 2% to 5% of your salary, then every year give out no bonus at all because the company isn't performing well enough, and talking to your coworkers they remember a time back in the 90s when the got about £20.
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Microsoft will stop delivering Windows Phone app updates on July 1st, 2019, and Windows 8 apps are going away on July 1st, 2023. We live in dark times
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ReMix can pinpoint the location of ingestible implants inside the body using low-power wireless signals. Avoid exit in 100 metres
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Security researchers have discovered a new exploitation technique that they say can bypass the kernel protection measures present in the Windows operating systems. As the tables turn, so does my stomach
"Furthermore, since the concept of page tables is also used by Apple and the Linux project, macOS and Linux are, in theory, also vulnerable to this technique, albeit the researchers have not verified such attacks, as of yet."
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Google is facing new scrutiny in the wake of revelations that it stores users’ location data even when "Location History" is turned off. That took longer than expected
But I guess the weekend slowed everything down
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CEO Satya Nadella knew the culture at the world's largest software maker needed a fix. Employees and investors are sold. Now he's got to convince the rest of us. It's your uncle's. Or perhaps that third cousin, twice removed
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Bing’s front-end stack is written predominantly in managed code layered in an MVC pattern. Most of the business logic code is written as data models in C#, and the view logic is written in Razor. "Eat your own dogfood"
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Back in the day Bing was one (only?  ) place where F# was seriously used. Wondering if they switched to C#...
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A security flaw in a pacemaker made by Medtronic makes it possible for hackers to take control of the device and deliver malware to the computers implanted in someone’s chest. "You make my heart beat faster, and that's all that matters"
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Some claims reflect extreme differences in estimated values. In one appeal filed in 2015, Apple said that a cluster of properties in and around Apple Park in Cupertino that the assessor valued at $1 billion was worth just $200. In another, property that the assessor valued at $384 million was, in Apple’s view, worth $200, according to an appeal application. Wow. Just Wow! So they will sell it to the public for that price???
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Just turn it around quickly, of course if apple says it is worth $200, then you should be paying almost no tax anyway.
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David O'Neil wrote: Wow. Just Wow! So they will sell it to the public for that price???
I'll pay Apple 100 times their price! I'm feeling generous today; make that a 1000! Think of the deal they'll get.
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We present FASTER, a new concurrent key-value store designed for point lookups and heavy updates. "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"
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On 31st July 2018, Eric Holmes, a security researcher gained access to Homebrew’s GitHub repo easily Extremely open source (leads to open sores)
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Sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies such as ethereum dried up faster than expected, the Santa Clara company said. Time to buy a new graphics card to do graphics!
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I believe that if we are to solve our security problems, then we must build software with security in mind right from the start. Oh good: it's the language's fault, not mine
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I don't think I can possibly agree less.
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Google has updated the help page for its Location History feature to acknowledge the fact that the company still tracks users through use of its services like Google Maps, weather updates, and browser searches. When caught doing something wrong, update the docs
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"No matter how politely you ask us to go away, we will not. (And it's for your own good!)"
With friends like this, who needs government?
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