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Yet another bad sounding Intel processor security vulnerability is released and this could be big again. Little over two years ago I wrote about Meltdown and Spectre, and posted links to some following vulnerabilities. Now an article Intel x86 Root of Trust: loss of trust from Positive Technologies details a new vulnerability. Researchers at enterprise →
Did you copy, cut, or paste today? Use a WYSIWIG interface with a mouse? Then take a moment to thank Larry Tesler, the influential computer scientist who died earlier this week at age 74. He was vice president of user experience and design at Yahoo, after he spent nearly two decades at Apple. Read more →
Prediction articles: 2020: A consumer electronics forecast for the year(s) ahead AI Chips: What Will 2020 Bring? CEO Outlook: 2020 Vision: 5G, China and AI are prominent, but big changes are coming everywhere Top 10 Tech Failures From 2019 That Hint At 2020 Trends – Last year’s tech failures often turn into next year’s leading →
Here’s the surprising story behind the software that conquered the world, one slide at a time https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-improbable-origins-of-powerpoint PowerPoint is so ingrained in modern business life that the notion of it having a history at all may seem odd. But it does have a very definite lifetime as a commercial product that came onto the scene →
There is a quite new electrical safety standard you need to know: IEC 62368-1. If you are working with electronics design, you need to notify this new standard. IEC 62368 is an entirely new product safety concept: it isn’t a merger of existing standards, but it does cover the older standards IEC 60065 and IEC →
Things end users care about but programmers don’t | Instadeq Blog https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/things-end-users-care-about-but-programmers-dont/ (And we agree with them, but our tools make it really hard to provide) Colors Themes Integrations UX Compatibility Operations Challenging projects every programmer should try http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/challengingprojects.html Whenever you want to learn a new programming language or framework, you could start with one →
https://www.patreon.com/posts/32306856 1) Influence (and control) over Open Source institutions by organizations and companies who are, in most areas of their business, opposed to Open Source. 2) Influence (and control) of Open Source projects, institutions, and communities by those seeking to harm others. What comes next? If I had to make a prediction for 2020, based →
I saw claim that you can include /dev/stdin in C/C++ code compiled with gcc at Facebook posting https://m.facebook.com/groups/2344226875800424?view=permalink&id=2591966714359771 That post made reference to article https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/898-include-etcshadow.html It looked interesting so here is my version of C code that includes some data/code from stdin at compile time: #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf(“%s\n”, #include “/dev/stdin” ); return →
https://www.reaktor.com/blog/democratizing-ai-finland-offers-free-ai-education-to-every-eu-citizen/ Finland has promised to provide European citizens with free access to the Elements of AI, the groundbreaking online course made by Reaktor and the University of Helsinki. The course will be made available in all the official EU languages. This initiative by the Finnish Presidency aims to respond to the challenges posed by the →
grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. It was originally developed for the Unix operating system, but later available for all Unix-like systems including Linux. I use grep very much on Linux. In this video Brian Kernighan discusses the origin of grep command If you →