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The Chameleon Android banking trojan has re-emerged with a new version that uses a tricky technique to take over devices — disable fingerprint and face unlock to steal device PINs. Good olde 'password' deemed secure
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The new assistant provides help using artificial intelligence. It just returns, "that's cancelled" for every query
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The tech giant plans to use the Creuziger family’s land to build a multi-building data center, all part of a $1 billion investment in the village of Mount Pleasant. "The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him!"
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By understanding and leveraging these four metrics, Engineering Managers can make more informed decisions and lead their teams to higher performance levels. Missing KLoC/fortnight
Monitors per dev?
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For documents: buzzwords/page?
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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A big percentage of so-called experts today only know how to configure tools, but they understand nothing about how things work at the deeper level Time to bring back realism? Surrealism?
I know some code I've seen is surreal
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Oh sh*t! They are forgetting to feed the hamsters! That's gonna smell.
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Quote: Everything in the tech industry is driven with a very hardcore eye for profit and very little interest in anything else.
This is axiomatic for pretty much any business that focuses on its shareholders, but the rest of the article is a good read. Its main point is
Quote: So what is going to happen when the level of understanding in the tech industry reaches such a low point in which the majority of people don't even know how to fix the tools they are using?
Well, it'll be an opportunity for those who are curious about how things work under the hood (and the article admits that they exist). Just apply the Pareto principle: 80% of everything is excrement, and 20% is good, meaning that only 4% is excellent. The author likely has job security.
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Well, DevOps is too much for one person, but we have to drop the abstractions... I am wondering if the author fixes Spectre in microcode, anyway.
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Microsoft is rumored to release the next-gen Windows client somewhere in the second half of 2024, with a big focus on AI-powered experience. Despite that, the company has at least one more "Moment" update in store for Windows 11. Just a moment
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A groundbreaking new ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence system trained with the life stories of over a million people is highly accurate in predicting the lives of individuals as well as their risk of early death, according to a new study. Especially if it's the one planning your death
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Such an AI can only work on the assumption that no life-extending technologies will enter into broad use within the expected lifetimes of the victims individuals. Given the major advances in medical technology over the past 50 years, I'd say that's a sucker's bet.
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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 I need to go back and read all his old stuff.
TTFN - Kent
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I have all of his science fiction, and have to ration myself on re-reading it. I've probably read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, my favorite, more than a couple dozen times.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The quest for the einstein tile—a shape never seen before in mathematics—turned up even more discoveries than mathematicians counted on I see really hard puzzles in the future
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The upcoming end of Windows 10 support may lead to hundreds of millions of devices becoming obsolete, potentially contributing significantly to electronic waste If only there were some OS that could run on those machines
What could it be? Oh, maybe CP/M?
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PCs are generally obsolete the moment they leave the factory. Just because Microsoft won't be updating Windows 10 after October 2025 doesn't mean that Windows 10 will cease to function.
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Microsoft could fix this with close to zero effort but someone in management has a ____ for TPM
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It's not the TPM that's the problem. It's the Core Isolation option. Windows 10 would do this in software if the hardware didn't support it. Microsoft removed this code in Windows 11, forcing Windows 11 to only run on machines with processors that support this feature.
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Why do I regularly get the impression that my current Win10 PC(s) will abruptly stop working the day MS ends its support? It didn't happen with my Win95 PC when Win95 support ended. It didn't happen with with my XP PC when that support ended. And I really cannot see how MS can transfer my current PC into e-waste when support ends.
For me, going from 3.1 to 95, further to 98, and then to XP, was driven by a need for the new functions - most certainly, the 32 bits of XP. There were some 'nice to have' to Win7, so I took that one as well. Win10 was like 'Well, why not, just in case, but it certainly is no real need'.
It still isn't. I could still have been running Win7; I have no needs beyond Win7. I guess that there are few new Win7 viruses nowadays, so I would be quite safe if I went back to Win7. Most likely, there will be few new Win10 viruses when support ends, so that is reasonably safe as well.
Real religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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trønderen wrote: Most likely, there will be few new Win10 viruses when support ends, so that is reasonably safe as well.
That is probably the crux of the matter. And I suspect that if a new power strain of virus comes into being, MS will update Win 10 boxes to combat it. If they don't though, there may be a class action suit...
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trønderen wrote: Most likely, there will be few new Win10 viruses when support ends, so that is reasonably safe as well.
The questions are whether viruses written for Win11 or later will be "backward compatible" with Win10, and whether anti-virus programs running on Win10 will be updated to catch them.
Both questions depend on the market share of Win10 post-support. Given that most home users will be reluctant to throw away perfectly good hardware just to get Win11, I expect the market share to remain significant.
(Businesses may be able to treat replacing their computers as a deductible expense, but I'm not an accountant.)
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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