Hackers have struck again with yet another ransomware attack.
At 10am on a late November morning in Freiburg, Germany, a bank employee noticed something was wrong with a bank ATM.
Please use an ad-blocker. Please pay for content The Internet is plagued by advertisements. Ads are bad enough on their own, but the way ads are spread on the Internet makes it quite possible that the ad-networks that spread them can send you dangerous malware. Site owners do not control what ads are displayed on […]
I love to read.I read a lot. I can’t be bothered with the local literature. Everyone knows no goodbook will ever come or has ever come from Norway. I also have already filled up the closet that is known as my apartmentwith dead tree scrolls so I am forced to use e-readers now. So being […]
Back when I was living in the US we had a sort of joke that goes: “How do you know if someone is a vegan?Oh they will tell you”. Since moving to Norway I have met far fewer vegetarians and veganswhich is a little sad. I have always felt a voice inside me encouraging me […]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceos-want-their-offices-back-1495445400 WTF, Small hint to the executives. The employees want their offices back too. It is hard to overstate how much I hate open office plans. I have hated them for my entire life, yet they are everywhere and still spreading like a cancer throughout the slave labor camps we all call work. Like a […]
Well my name is William Kent. (Kinda obvious). I work as a software developer. It is a great profession where you get to build something out of nothing.Except these days it is mostly about duct taping various components together and hope it works. In a previous life I tried to be a musician and sound […]
Why does this blog / website / exist? I eventually got tired of contributing my measly writing to the giant social media conglomerates and figured I wanted to write what I wanted on my own little patch of the Internet. I do realise the only people who will read it are the 3 – 4 […]
by Douglas E. Richards This was a book with an interesting premise. What if someone could sense the future, but be unaware of it. Could they be helped to develop it? Aliens visiting Earth seem to think so and they have searched for the right candidate for a long long time. I won’t give away too […]
WordPress Plugins Exploited in Ongoing Attack, Researchers Warn
Researchers warn users of several plugins to update as vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to redirect website visitor traffic. Researchers are warning of an ongoing campaign exploiting vulnerabilities in a slew of WordPress plugins.
Read MoreSoftware sector braces for a split among leading companies
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Read MoreThe End of Agile
I knew the end of Agile was coming when we started using hockey sticks. Every morning, at precisely eight o’clock, the team of developers and architects would stand around a room paneled in white boards and would begin passing around a toy hockey stick.
Read MoreOSX-KVM/README.md at master · kholia/OSX-KVM · GitHub
Ubuntu 15.10 running on i5-6500 CPU. Fedora 24 running on i5-6500 + i7-6600U CPU.
Read MoreSoftware Architecture Guide
Enterprise Architecture groups often get separated from day to day development. This can lead to their knowledge of development work getting out of date and development teams not taking a broad company-wide perspective.
Read MoreFacebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from project
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Read MoreThe Browser Monopoly
There is really only one Big Tech monopoly that I actively worry about. It’s not Amazon, Facebook or Apple, though they are all extremely dominant in their respective fields and do act in anti-competitive ways that merit regulatory remedy.
Read MoreBitcoin’s race to outrun the quantum computer
Want to steal some Bitcoin? All you need to do is find your victim’s 16-character public key and calculate their private key by solving something called an “elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem.
Read MoreSoftware Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
At the Black Hat security conference today in Las Vegas, Santamarta, a researcher for security firm IOActive, plans to present his findings, including the details of multiple serious security flaws in the code for a component of the 787 known as a Crew Information Service/Maintenance System.
Read MoreWeWork isn’t a tech company; it’s a soap opera
On August 14th, The We Company (the company formerly known as WeWork) filed its mandatory S-1 paperwork to go public, and it’s worth reading in full. I mean, forget the serious stuff for a moment.
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