Tabletop exercise, your major SaaS supplier got hit with ransomware 8 days ago and they're in the US, but you're in the UK, and you haven't had an update in 4 days, and they've gone on holiday as it's Thanksgiving. https://blueyonder.com/customer-update
Bluesky Social Dataset (235M posts from 4M users)
Link: https://zenodo.org/records/11082879
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42261804
"But average people like AI poetry better than real one"
(Original title: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Poetry)
After 6 years, I made a blog thingy again.
This time about MmScrubMemory. An innocuous looking function that has bitten my ass several times in the last several years. And if you're developing a hypervisor, it might've bitten yours, too.
Google is required to include any search engine that meets specific criteria, such as having an app with over 5,000 installs, in the default list for Android and Chrome.
We'd love it if you install the Kagi app and help us meet the criteria! We're almost there:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kagi.search
23 years old, and if you replace a few hyped things with today's equivalents, the article is 100% fresh. Things have gotten even worse since then it appears. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/
“CrowdStrike Earnings: Cybersecurity Firm Posts Higher Revenue Amid Swing to Loss - WSJ”
So, I've long argued that all of software dev's dysfunctions can be traced to the fact that business outcomes do not depend on software quality, design, or reliability. As long as this dynamic continues the software we use will only get worse
New PE Vulnerability in Windows OS! https://ssd-disclosure.com/ssd-advisory-ksthunk-sys-integer-overflow-pe/
Earlier post, but in recent talks I'm encountering more and more organizations that are losing their last technical people. You can outsource a lot, but most places have a core thing that they should really own. And once your own technical department is no longer viable, you are hosed. The longer story: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/your-tech-my-tech/