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If you’re a professional software developer – which is likely since you’re reading this article – you’re probably on Reddit. A lot.
And why wouldn’t you be? It’s a magical place where you and your tribe can exchange pearls of wisdom like this one:
If you're one of the more than ten million developers who downloaded the official Docker images for OpenJDK 8 and 11 from mid April until about a month ago, you'll really want to make sure you get those updated stat.
Due to innocent enough confusion over tagging protocols, Debian volunteers populated their repos with unreleased versions of the JDKs some weeks before the final versions were ready to go, but failed to clearly label them as such.
Since mid-May, Microsoft has been warning Windows admins of a potentially catastrophic vulnerability: Now known as BlueKeep, this "critical" vulnerability exists within the Remote Desktop Protocol used by older Windows operating systems, including 2000, Vista, XP, 7, Server 2003 (including R2), and Server 2008 (including R2).
As the company explained in a security update guide last month:
The opening scene from the 1993 Michael Douglas film Falling Down (above) could very well have been shot yesterday. No, I'm not talking about the 90s buzz cut or the short sleeve collared shirt, but I am talking about its spot on depiction of the hell that is gridlock.
Traffic is at a standstill, the weather is sweltering, and Michael Douglas just can't even -- to the point where he actually abandons his vehicle under an overpass to alleviate the stress of it all. And let's be honest, we've all dreamt about doing the exact same thing at one time or another.
In a quiet move that likely reflects Microsoft's growing concern over the misuse of facial recognition technology, the company deleted its own MSCeleb database, a collection of 10 million images that has been used to train facial recognition systems across the globe since its release in 2016.
As the BBC points out, "the deletion comes after Microsoft called on US politicians to do a better job of regulating recognition systems" due to their "broad societal ramifications and potential for abuse."
As many of you may already know, I am not a fan of the open-office plan.
(For those of you who aren't familiar with my crusade against this hellscape of a work environment, allow me to direct you to this piece I wrote a few months back. And this one. Then there's this one, which is tangentially related. As is this one.)
As anyone who has been on the Internet any time in the last decade can tell you, Twitter is certainly a mixed bag. On one hand, it's an absolute cesspool of humanity; but then on the other, it's a magical place full of connection and cat memes.
This latter category is where the following bits of wisdom were found. It turns out, there's a handle entirely devoted to helping developers stay on their game, one inspirational quote at a time. Here are a few of my favorites:
According to the Mayo Clinic, job burnout is "a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity."
The reasons for this unfortunately common condition are varied, though it generally arises out of the inevitable despair that accompanies a spectacularly terrible career choice.
GitHub today announced the beta launch of Sponsors, a new tool that allows you to lend financial support to your favorite open-source project on the site via recurring monthly payments.
While projects like Beerpay already integrate with GitHub for this very purpose, GitHub is hoping their own tool will make this funding model much more prevalent across the site. The mission, the company explained to TechCrunch, is to "expand the opportunities to participate in and build on open source."
Well, it’s official: Silicon Valley isn’t going anywhere, at least any time soon. That’s according to jobs site Indeed.com, which recently published a report outlining where the majority of US tech jobs are calling home these days.
It’s certainly no surprise that San Jose, CA, saw the largest increase in per capita tech positions, or that postings of so-called “hot tech titles” – such as cloud engineer and data scientist – were seven percent higher here than the national average.
I have nothing more to add. This pretty much sums it up.
It’s been more than 10 years since Gartner reported that between 60 and 80 percent of all IT budgets were being spent on simply “keeping the lights on,” and according to a new report from OutSystems, this is still very much the case today.
The low-code development platform company released their 2019 State of Application Development Report earlier this week, and their findings, reached with the insight of more than 3,300 IT professionals in the app development space, “broadly concur with industry analyst reports which estimate that ‘keeping the lights on’ activities consume around 75 percent of most IT organizations’ resources.”
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According to a recent survey, a striking number of Europeans believe AI models could govern mankind better than actual humans.
Most AI stories in the news these days are, let’s be honest, pretty damn terrifying. Not only are machines about to steal all of our jobs, but they may also end up killing us. Literally.
Thankfully, though, this is not one of those stories, because Google has given me something decidedly less anxiety-inducing to write about: The company has just announced that its AI-based flood detection and alert system will now cover millions of people living in India in time for this year’s monsoon season, which begins next month.
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a unicorn wrangler, followed closely by princess. Because of course I did. I was five years old.
It seems, though, that had I done a little more digging when I was first starting out my career, I could have been both.
Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she teaches and studies what the above TED Talk is all about – how we can all overcome our innately human fear of vulnerability so that we can truly lead our best lives.
Now, I’m sure you’re wondering what this has to do with DZone, since it’s obviously not overtly tech related. But it just so happens that tech companies from all over the world pay Dr. Brown a whole lot of money to advise them on building cultures where innovation can thrive.
Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has reportedly lost around $40 million dollars worth of Bitcoin to hackers.
“Hackers were able to obtain a large number of user API keys, 2FA codes, and potentially other info,” said CEO Zhao Changpeng in a press release. “The hackers used a variety of techniques, including phishing, viruses and other attacks. We are still concluding all possible methods used. There may also be additional affected accounts that have not been identified yet.”
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It’s no secret these days that AI is a big deal in the world of business. According to Gartner, the percentage of enterprises using the technology has jumped astronomically over the past several years, tripling in the last year alone.