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Top business & technology journalist with a fondness for dogs, cats, music, theater & books.

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Keir Starmer and Labour won the election, but Larry's the real winner.

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Then: Don't sit too close to the TV, it will ruin your eyes. Today: ...

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This week brings more research, showing the problem’s almost four times as big as we thought. And major public websites are still using it—including government services.

It’s quite a worry. In #SBBlogwatch, we daren’t even breathe on this house of cards. At #TechstrongGroup’s #SecurityBlvd:

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The Linux User Group party may have been a little too rowdy last night.

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All efforts by the US government to make people’s lives better are now unenforceable

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The dream of the Internet was that we'd share our best; the reality of the Internet is that it shows us at our worst.

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For writers as well, this is all too, too apt.

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Today's software dad joke.

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Time for a Zoom Room upgrade? "Participants tended to judge faces appearing against backgrounds featuring houseplants or bookcases as more trustworthy and competent than faces with a living space or a novelty image behind them." phys.org/news/2023-0...

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You see an old truck; Henry #Cat sees a fine lounging spot.

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A dependency manager used by millions of #Apple iOS and macOS apps suffered secret critical flaws since 2014. If they’d been exploited by hackers, the consequences could have been disastrous.

And maybe they WERE exploited. In #SBBlogwatch, it’s hard to be sure. At #TechstrongGroup’s #SecurityBlvd:

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I wish this were funny.

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#TeamViewer says “compromised employee account” led to a #Russian breach. While TV makes reassuring noises about its segmented network, it also said the tool was installed on more than 2.5B devices.

That’s a worry, despite calming PR. In #SBBlogwatch, we wonder why TeamViewer didn’t enforce #MFA.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "The court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president. ... “Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. "

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FSF might be getting itself back on track as the watchdog for copyleft and FOSS with the appointment of free software activist and pioneer John Gilmore to its board": Free Software Pioneer and Activist John Gilmore Is Among Three New Board Members at FSF buff.ly/4cENu1F

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This is Not fine.

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Friends don't let friends go to Microsoft tech conferences.

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Dear copy editors, if Meta and X are Facebook and Twitter to the Supreme Court, that's good enough for me, and it should be good enough for you.

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Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voters wapo.st/3KYyorV
WTF, America? WTF!?

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It's official. They're Twitter and Facebook

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Getting me out of the van afterward is another problem entirely.

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venturebeat.com/data-infrast...

Oracle is now doing something no other database vendor (that i know off at least) is doing - it is directly integrating LLMs as an in-database feature.

->Oracle bakes LLMs and vector support directly into HeatWave GenAI database

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#Microsoft really wants to slurp up all your data. It’s given up nagging you to back up your PC to its #OneDrive cloud—now it’s simply turning it on without warning.

In #SBBlogwatch, we wanna wake up from this #privacy nightmare. At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd:

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7 upgrades Apple Vision Pro needs to succeed in business:
How can Apple's XR headset become an indispensable enterprise tool across various industries? Expert insights from one VR leader show the way forward. www.zdnet.com/article/7-up...

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This is not. I repeat, "Not!" how Power over Ethernet works.

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Personally, I won't vote for someone who threatens to put me in jail for disagreeing with him.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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