Network World

Info World

• newOnly DevSecOps can save the metaverse
  Defined as a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on enhancing social connections through conventional personal computing and virtual reality and augmented reality headsets, the metaverse was once a f…
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• newKotlin 1.7.0 beta alters builder type inference
  Kotlin 1.7.0, a planned new version of JetBrains’ cross-platform, multipurpose programming language, has reached a beta release stage, featuring changes to the builder type inference and a new memor…
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• newYou’re doing cloudops planning too late
  I often remember fondly the days of the waterfall software development life cycle. Each task had a beginning and an end. One work product was the input for the next documentation or code, and while it…
  - 4 hours ago 17 May 22, 10:00am -
• CNCF launches ethics in open source training course
  The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has launched an Ethics in Open Source Development training course that explores the ethical implications developers should consider when building open sour…
  - 1 day ago 16 May 22, 11:30am -
• Review: YugabyteDB does PostgreSQL proud
  When I reviewed YugaByteDB 1.0 in 2018, it combined distributed ACID transactions, multi-region deployment, and support for Cassandra and Redis APIs. At the time, PostgreSQL support was “on the way,…
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• More money for open source security won’t work
  Here’s the good news. According to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), it will cost less than $150 million to secure open source software. More good news, industry giants Amazon, Intel,…
  - 1 day ago 16 May 22, 10:00am -
• Top technologists have job options: 5 tips for retention
  Developers, test automation engineers, site reliability engineers, and other technologists have more employment options today than ever before. Although there’s been a battle for talent for more tha…
  - 1 day ago 16 May 22, 10:00am -
• Microsoft .NET 7 Preview 4 brings Regex improvements, cache metrics
  Microsoft’s latest preview of .NET 7, the forthcoming next version of its software development platform, features enhancements for working with regular expressions and caching.Downloadable from the…
  - 3 days ago 14 May 22, 10:00am -
• JDK 19: The features targeted for Java 19
  Java Development Kit 19, due this September, has just had a sixth feature proposed for it: a preview of record patterns, for data navigation and processing. Record patterns joins five previous featur…
  - 4 days ago 13 May 22, 7:25pm -
• Cloudflare to take on AWS, Azure, Google with D1 distributed database
  Building on top of its recently launched serverless application platform Workers and the R2 object storage service, Cloudflare is releasing a new serverless database, dubbed D1, to take on databases f…
  - 4 days ago 13 May 22, 5:55pm -

Etherealmind

• Network Zen: The Duality of Bandwidth
  Understanding a dual nature can be hard
  - 4 days ago 13 May 22, 6:12pm -
• How Cell Service Actually Works – YouTube
  Brilliant explanation of data encoding and cell services
  - 5 days ago 12 May 22, 3:53pm -
• Outburst: Samsung Unveils New PRO Endurance Memory Card
  15 year duty cycle claimed
  - 11 days ago 6 May 22, 9:33am -
• Whoop Dee Doo for my SuzieQ! » The Gratuitous Arp
  Blog post on using SuzieQ for change validation by collecting state information prior to change. Lots of detail on installation and coding so you can do this yourself.  The PRE snapshot was just that…
  - 12 days ago 5 May 22, 5:15pm -
• TLStorm 2.0 – Armis
  Details on Aruba & Extreme Avaya vulnerability
  - 13 days ago 4 May 22, 11:22am -
• Heavy Strategy Podcast – The Great Realisation Not Great Resignation
  Heavy Strategy is about IT strategy. My co-host Johna Till-Johnson is the CEO/founder of Nemertes Research with a lot of strategy experience that combines with her technical background. The great thi…
  - 14 days ago 3 May 22, 3:33pm -
• Research Paper: One to Rule them All? A First Look at DNS over QUIC
  Research paper on DNS over QUIC suggests faster than DOT & DOH
  - 19 days ago 28 Apr 22, 12:51pm -
• Outburst: Can SONiC become the Linux of Network Operating Systems? – YouTube
  Useful business primer on why and what of SONIC
  - 19 days ago 28 Apr 22, 10:15am -
• Aviz Networks Secures Funding to Accelerate Modernization of Data Center and Edge Networks | Business Wire
  $4M for SONIC services
  - 20 days ago 27 Apr 22, 10:36am -
• The Network Anyverse
  An explanation of my Network Anyverse Strategy. Normal practice for data networking was that technology was narrow: fixed bandwidth, focus on selected technology, and there were only service I  look…
  - 25 days ago 22 Apr 22, 10:37am -

ITWorld

• newChromebooks: Desktops you can trust to be there
  I’ve been a Chromebook believer for over a decade now. A week ago, I was reminded of one of the fundamental reasons I use them: when a Chromebook fails, you can buy a new one and be back to work in…
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• newAmid talent crunch, Microsoft looks to keep talent through pay hikes, bonuses
  Under tremendous pressure to attract and retain talent, Microsoft is boosting worldwide compensation for employees to remain competitive with some of its Big-tech rivals, including Amazon and Meta.The…
  - 3 hours ago 17 May 22, 11:07am -
• The future of work: Apple’s heroes-to-zeroes story
  You have to be deeply committed to multiple forms of denial to not recognize that the world is changing. And while not every change is positive, one that makes more sense than most is the chance to cr…
  - 21 hours ago 16 May 22, 4:38pm -
• Not all patching problems are created equal
  It’s the third week of the month — the week we find out whether Microsoft acknowledges any side effects it’s investigating as part of the monthly patch-release process.First, a bit of background…
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• Apple is the latest example of how the remote work fight has gone lunatic
  The emerging corporate pushback against working from remote locations (otherwise known, unfortunately, as work from home) is nothing shy of self-destructive and bizarre. I say this because it comes at…
  - 1 day ago 16 May 22, 12:28pm -
• No degree? No problem. Tech firms move away from college requirement for new hires
  The tech industry has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic and the Great Resignation, leaving organizations facing a dearth of qualified job candidates for more than 1 million openings.For all U…
  - 1 day ago 16 May 22, 10:00am -
• May's Patch Tuesday updates make urgent patching a must
  This past week's Patch Tuesday started with 73 updates, but ended up (so far) with three revisions and a late addition (CVE-2022-30138) for a total of 77 vulnerabilities addressed this month. Compared…
  - 3 days ago 14 May 22, 12:51pm -
• Windows 11 Insider Previews: What’s in the latest build?
  Windows 11 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its…
  - 4 days ago 13 May 22, 6:17pm -
• Does your team need a cloud-based unified communication and collaboration tool?
  The debate is over — and the cloud won. Most businesses have left their quaint PBX phone systems behind and moved to a unified communications system (UC) that exists entirely in the cloud, because t…
  - 4 days ago 13 May 22, 6:01pm -
• Apple's Mac shortage is a big red flag for enterprise IT
  Enterprise purchasers should expect to become frustrated when purchasing new hardware in the coming months, as supply chain logistics continue to deteriorate. When it comes to Apple kit, you may have…
  - 4 days ago 13 May 22, 3:56pm -