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You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem - here's how to stop it

Sun, 2025-07-13 11:02
Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another

By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any phony resumes or imposters in your interview queue, you're asleep at the wheel.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

Sat, 2025-07-12 11:38
Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

Comment The new fork of the X.org X11 server is conservative… and we don't mean just technologically conservative.…

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If MCP is the USB-C of AI agents, A2A is their Ethernet

Sat, 2025-07-12 10:58
Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak?

We have protocols and standards for just about everything. It's generally helpful when we can all agree on how technologies should talk to one another. So, it was only a matter of time before the first protocols governing agentic AI started cropping up.…

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Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites

Sat, 2025-07-12 00:00
No reason given for the 6% cull, but the CEO has previously talked up AI taking jobs

Recruit Holdings, the Japanese job site conglomerate that owns recruitment job site Indeed and employer reviewer Glassdoor, has eliminated about 1,300 positions.…

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AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

Fri, 2025-07-11 22:41
Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag

Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite.…

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Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video

Fri, 2025-07-11 21:05
An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration

video Flanked by a pair of buzzing drones that threatened to drown out his voice, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reached up to grab a memorandum hung from a third drone hovering above his head. …

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Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show

Fri, 2025-07-11 20:10
Data poisoning, meet data detox

ai-pocalypse Computer scientists say they've devised a way to remove image-based protection mechanisms developed to protect artists from unwanted use of their work for AI training.…

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