If you haven't been programming since fixing Y2K was the problem of the day, you may not know just how much trouble we've been in with supply chain software security holes and attacks. Still not sure what I mean, go read up on the Solarwinds security fiasco. I'll wait. Get the picture? So when Synopsys…

Hackers continue to exploit publicly known—and often dated—software vulnerabilities.

British-Columbia-based fabricator West Coast Firepits may have been the first company to create a Death Star fire pit; while today you can get them from a multitude of fabricators—and on Amazon, Etsy and Wayfair--it was WCF's that went viral in 2017. The attention was enough to launch the company

How to rescue Miami...and other coastal cities that will otherwise be largely under water.

We are going to talk about one real and universal reason why you *personally* should review the code of your teammates.

NEW YORK, NY - In 2017, the popular day-trading startup MoneyGrab hired a consultant to switch...

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Profile. Index Engines is a low-profile and little-known company that catalogues unstructured data to create searchable indexes, and uses the indexes to provide the wherewithal for file tiering, eDiscovery, governance and, latterly, ransomware detection with a CyberSense product. It is privately owned by an entrepreneur with a track record in starting up and selling storage-related […]

You've got a year to sort yourself out if you're still using it for some reason

Even pre-pandemic, the adoption of cloud services was on the rise as organisations looked to drive digital transformation for business resilience and innovation. The impact of COVID-19 has only served to accelerate this momentum. As we continue to support the digital future of businesses, we are launching our second Australian Cloud region in Melbourne, Victoria. In 2017 we launched our first Cloud region in Sydney and, since then, we have continued to invest and expand across Australia in an effort to support the digital future of businesses. According to AlphaBeta, Google Cloud delivers almost AU$3.2 billion in annual gross benefits to business and consumers in Australia, including AU$686 million to our customers and AU$698 million to our partners.The Melbourne Cloud region represents one part of our continued expansion in cloud infrastructure to support Australia’s digital future, and is a strong reflection of our commitment to enabling our Cloud customers and partners to continue growing, innovating, and driving digital transformation forward in the region.Of the launch, Victorian Minister for Government Services Danny Pearson said, “We welcome Google’s investment in local cloud infrastructure that will support the growing cloud requirements of Victorian businesses.”

Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving. By Jon Kolko; published by Austin Center for Design.

Most firms aren’t, and that undermines their innovation efforts.

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'Icelandia' was lost to the sea 10 million years ago.

1) On the N 80th Ave overpass, or 2) Set to happen on December 2, 2021. Either way, big news. ~ David...

Google is making its sharing links harder to guess, and it's notifying users.

A new episode of "Your Brain on Money" illuminates the strange world of consumer behavior and explores how brands can wreak havoc on our ability to make rational decisions.

I’ve been exploring an architectural pattern for publishing websites over the past few years that I call the “Baked Data” pattern. It provides many of the advantages of static site …

Local exterminator noticed big change in rats over the past 40 years.

We’ve been very bullish on QR codes here, because they’re an excellent way for customers and vendors to shake hands, to start doing business, and to form constructive relationships. Ala…

This is how a competitive chip market is supposed to look, and this is how a competitive chip maker recovers from faults, competes against a seemingly

According to researchers from McGill, Harvard, and the University of Melbourne, a quick test could reveal how much creative potential lies within.

Cloud security company Sysdig has begun the process of acquiring Apolicy as part of its efforts to continue shifting left its suite of security products, adding to the Sysdig platform the ability to not only parse Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) configuration files for errors but also to help prioritize and remediate any issues found. Apolicy is built…

With the maturity of cloud computing and the complexities resulting from the conflation of cloud native, edge, 5G, AI and more, companies are navigating a cultural transformation unlike anything we’ve seen before. At the heart of it is how enterprises manage cost, and that starts with a cost-aware culture. In the early days of most…

Choosing the right software tools can give your company a competitive advantage. With so many different ways to do the same task, however, it can be easy to develop tool bloat, which causes confusion and inefficiency. Therefore, it’s essential to use only the best tools for the job, no matter the context, and DevOps tooling…

When I recently read Alan Formy-Duval's article Manage your Raspberry Pi with Cockpit, I thought it would be a good idea to have an image with Cockpit already preinstalled. Luckily there are at least two ways to accomplish this task: