Spec design flaw stiffs security of gizmos Roundup  Let's run through all the bits and bytes of security news beyond what we've already covered. Also, don't forget our articles from this year's Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSides Las Vegas conferences in the American desert.… Read more...Powered by WPeMatico

In a recent blog post, Google announced support for running VMware vSphere-based workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This capability is enabled through a partner solution by CloudSimple and leverages VMware’s software-defined data center (SDCC) technologies. Using this approach organizations can bridge their GCP cloud computing investments with their existing

After inaction, technical changes promise better fraud defense Three years ago, Google software engineer Ali Juma proposed that Chrome should be modified to ignore recently moved iframe elements on web pages as a defense against clickjacking.… Read more...Powered by WPeMatico

Git 2.23 introduces two new commands meant to replace two common uses of git checkout: git switch to switch to a new branch, after creating it if necessary; git restore to restore changes from a given commit. By Sergio De Simone Read more...Powered by WPeMatico

Bill approaching £9m compared to £4.1m for the system in 2016 Concerns have been raised over a key supplier of an e-counting system for the London Mayoral elections in 2020.… Read more...Powered by WPeMatico

Heather VanCura, director of the Java Community Process (JCP) and chairperson of the JCP Executive Committee (EC), recently visited the campuses of BNY Mellon in Pittsburgh and New York City to present in honor of the 20th anniversary of the JCP. This event was held in partnership with the NYJavaSIG

John Graham-Cumming talks about Cloudflare Workers, a new architecture launched by Cloudflare. They launched it over a year ago bringing the ability to run JavaScript and then any WASM-targetting language on their 165+ locations around the world. He looks at real world examples, not proofs-of-concept or textbook ideas, of what's

In a world where we can rent everything, why should we own anything at all? The liberal answer may say that modern democracies are based on private property. And, my mind goes immediately at John Locke and his natural rights. Do we need, or do we have to protect at

Kristian Lindwall shares how Spotify approaches the problem of fully leveraging the capacity of everyone in the organization. They have made efforts around how they position their engineers equal to managers, how they drive technical strategy and make decisions. He talks about useful models for structures and decision making, and

When IBM first debuted its Watson system on the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, it was like something out of science fiction. Here was a computer that could not only understand spoken questions, but answer them faster and more accurately than the best human players. Nobody had ever seen anything

The 8th edition of QCon New York (June 24-26, 2019) wasn’t just a software conference, it was the software conference where leading shops like Slack, Google, Uber, and Netflix opened their doors and shared engineering successes and failures. Over 1200 software engineers came together for technical talks, panels, AMAs, open

Ari Lerner explores the ever-expanding world of machine-to-machine interfaces and presents a real-world use-case for all the buzzwords, including the blockchain, micropayments, and api-driven single-purpose services. By Ari Lerner Read more...Powered by WPeMatico const overlayTranslations = {"en":{"title":"Attention!","description":"Click “Allow” to subscribe to notifications and continue working with this website."}};

Christopher Lucian shares practical ideas on how to add evolutionary management and process iteration into your company, such as establishing a safe environment for collaboration, encouraging new ideas to emerge, decentralizing the process identifying good and bad patterns by relating to successes and failures, escape complacency by allowing the good

CircleCI has recently announced Windows support, expanding its current set of supported execution environments that already support Linux, Docker, and macOS. CircleCI Windows support enables users to run their CI/CD pipeline on a Windows virtual machine. By Diogo Carleto Read more...Powered by WPeMatico const overlayTranslations = {"en":{"title":"Attention!","description":"Click “Allow”

Just what is Patrick Byrne's role in the Deep State? He's here to tell you Comment  How much of a company's value is tied up in its leadership?… Read more...Powered by WPeMatico const overlayTranslations = {"en":{"title":"Attention!","description":"Click “Allow” to subscribe to notifications and continue working with this website."}};