Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending Friday, July 21, 2023
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, July 21st, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few minutes David Shipley of New Brunswick’s Beauceron Security will be here to discuss some of the headlines. But first a review of headlines
Read MoreDefensive Programming and the Use of TypeScript
TypeScript is helpful at scale, but after using it for several years, it becomes evident that it’s not sufficient on its ownIllustration by authorUnlike languages such as Java, which have type safety that extends into the runtime, TypeScript is relieved of its type safety duties at compile time. This means your code
Read MoreLeave sex workers out of your NPC TikTok discourse
Every time a woman monetizes the absurd, she’s accused of making fetish content. It’s a symptom of the anti-sex moral panic sweeping pop culture — and this time, it’s coming for TikTok’s NPC creators. Snippets of these creators’ livestreams keep going viral, and because the internet loves to hate on
Read MoreAMC scraps plan to charge more for better seats
AMC Theaters has announced that it’s dropping plans to charge more for preferred seats and less for front-row ones through a tiered pricing system. The plan, called “Sightline,” was being tested in three U.S. markets since March. The company says it saw “little or no increase in patronage of front
Read MoreFedNow is finally live in the US
The U.S. government’s instant payment system, FedNow Service, went live this week. Here’s a quick refresher on what that is: FedNow is an instant payment infrastructure for transferring money that promises to be a faster payment rail for financial institutions, offering immediate access to funds no matter the day or
Read MoreTechCrunch+ Roundup: Generative AI marketing, European edtech report, falling fintech valuations
Maintaining a full content pipeline is a laborious, subjective process, and with so many people involved, it can be hard to remain data-driven. Generative AI tools speed up this work dramatically: Once a system is trained on your content, it will churn out keywords and ideas by the bushel, but
Read MoreTesla’s margins remind us that it’s an automaker, not a tech company
Tesla’s stock is worth more than that of Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen and Stellantis combined. Even though Tesla is an automaker, it’s valued as more of a tech company, with a share price that puts it in the camp of companies like Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft. But that share
Read MoreA Pure Swift Library To Find Favicons Used by Any Website
Designed for iOS and macOS applicationsgithub.com/will-lumley/FaviconFinderSome time ago, I was working on an iOS application that required me to fetch and display the favicon of a given URL.Easy right? Well, not so much.About 15 to 20 years ago, you’d be fine to set up a simple HTTP GET request at the server's
Read MorePandas Internals Explained
Explaining the pandas data model and its advantagesPhoto by La-Rel Easter on UnsplashIntroductionpandas enables you to choose between different types of arrays to represent the data of your dataframe. Historically, most dataframes are backed by NumPy arrays. pandas 2.0 introduced the option to use PyArrow arrays as a storage format. Additionally,
Read MoreRed Hat saved IBM’s bacon this quarter
IBM reported earnings this week, and if we’re being honest, the results were rather uninspiring. The company generated revenue of around $15.5 billion, down a disappointing 0.4% from its year-ago result. However, even inside its less than stellar report, there were some favorable tidbits for the well-known tech giant. On
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