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Whatever your job, mentoring is your job – and the one that matters most
Opinion When I started coding for a living 43 years ago, I didn't know shit from Shinola. I'd written a lot of BASIC, some Z80 assembler, and knew my way around floppy drives and a disk operating system. I knew nothing at all about how to operate as a junior engineer in a professional environment.…
China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’
Chinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK.…
Microsoft reveals new cloudy AI PC that’s not a Copilot+ PC
Microsoft has created a new type of AI PC – the “Windows 365 AI-enabled Cloud PC”.…
Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…
Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook
"We love moving packets," declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, "This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down."…
Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’
Microsoft has added a new Windows mode that blanks out the Blue Screen of Death on public displays after 15 seconds.…