Cyber Security Today, June 16, 2023 – Beware of fake profiles on GitHub, and are you an optimist or pessimist CISO?
Beware of fake profiles on GitHub, and are you an optimist or pessimist CISO? Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, June 16th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. Some people worry about hackers using advanced techniques to create deepfake audio
Read moreMulti-Language Support in VSCode Text Documents
VSCode does not allow setting several languages simultaneously for a single document.Extension authors can open a text document for a specific language:await vscode.workspace.openTextDocument({ language: 'mongodb', content });Or set the language for an existing text document:await vscode.languages.setTextDocumentLanguage(document, 'javascript');But there are many use cases when a document should contain several languages at
Read more8 Traits of The Best Teams I’ve Worked With
Cover Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on UnsplashThe best teams I’ve worked with are autonomous and extremely customer-focused. You can trust them to do the right thing because they know what the priorities are. Everyone feels empowered to interact with stakeholders to resolve issues and drive projects to success. The individuals
Read moreAmazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition greenlighted by UK antitrust regulator
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has given the go-ahead to Amazon’s proposed billion-dollar iRobot acquisition, concluding that the deal “would not lead to competition concerns in the U.K.” Amazon first revealed plans to buy robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion last August, though the megabucks deal was always likely to
Read moreReddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is not backing down amid protests against API changes made by the platform. In interviews with The Verge, NBCNews, and NPR, Huffman defended business decisions made by the company to charge third-party apps saying API wasn’t designed to support these clients. The Reddit co-founder also talked
Read moreHashtag Trending Jun.16- Google cautions employees using AI; Postgres overtakes MySql as the leading open-source database; What do you do when your smart home locks you out?
Google tells staff to be cautious using AI. Postgres overtakes MySql as the leading open-source database. And what do you do when your smart home locks you out? These and more top tech news stories from Hashtag Trending and Tech News Day. I’m your host Jim Love, CIO of
Read moreCombat Cyberbullying with Kaspersky’s Top 10 tips
Kaspersky is a company dedicated to safeguarding individuals and businesses from online threats. With a wealth of experience in cybersecurity and digital privacy since their establishment in 1997, their primary objective is to develop innovative solutions and services that ensure the security of your information. On June 16, an auspicious
Read moreFrom Code to C-Suite: How to Present Your Engineering Progress Effectively
Photo by Product School on UnsplashIn the often hidden platform engineering world, articulating progress effectively, especially in long-term projects, is paramount. We suffer from the invisible unless it fails syndrome.The challenge, however, lies in translating complex, foundational technical achievements into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with C-Level stakeholders — those who may not
Read more5G: Revolutionizing Connectivity for a Mobile Workforce
In today’s professional landscape, staying connected is essential as individuals and teams embrace mobility, working and collaborating from anywhere. The emergence of 5G technology has become increasingly relevant, especially in the past year. Major mobile network operators in South Africa are expanding their 5G networks, making this technology widely available
Read moreiOS 17 @Observable and the Observation Framework
New in WWDC 23, the new approach to observing changes simplifies SwiftUI and solves the nested observable object problem.WWDC 2023 introduced us to the new iOS-17@Observable property wrapper along with a cleaned-up @State that now supersedes the previous @State @ObservedObject, @StateObject. This is fantastic — it’s always been a source of confusion for
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