Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead [Wed Mar 29 2023]

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Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead

Microsoft's attention has moved on, but flame still alive

 
 

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Rackspace racks up job cuts amid market downturn and talk of offshoring

Everything from inflation, to war in Ukraine and high interest rates 'point to recession', says CEO in memo to staff

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Ammo-maker says TikTok's datacenter site could deprive it of electricity

'Our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos'

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US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse'

It's not a smoking gun, it's 'a loaded gun' suggests NSA's Rob Joyce

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Amazon opens its ad-hoc Wi-Fi-sipping Sidewalk mesh to all manner of gadgets

A reminder you can still opt-out

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Nexperia claims Newport Wafer may close if sale goes ahead

Staff may head for exit, followed by customers, it would 'decimate' ops, says CEO

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For whom the bell polls: Twitter voting is for Blue users only now

Is there a role for a poll for just Blue Tickers, not proles, or is this troll a social media own goal?

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China urges Apple to improve security and privacy

It's a juicy market that welcomes foreign investment, National development boss reminds Tim Cook

Apple patches all the iThings, including iOS 15 hole under attack right now

Issue identified in February but owners of older kit weren't warned

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Google again accused of willfully destroying evidence in Android antitrust battle

Starting to see a pattern here? Judge seems to think so

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President Biden kind of mostly bans commercial spyware from US govt

Executive order has loopholes for Uncle Sam's snoop tools and American-made code

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Google reminds everyone it too can offer an AI code-suggestion bot

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Microsoft enlarges its cockpit of Copilots to include security

It starts with chat bots inventing D&D campaigns and ends with AI all over your Excel and network logs

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Investment bank forecasts LLMs could put 300 million jobs at risk

Meanwhile technology-driven job creation is possible, Goldman Sachs says

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US police have run nearly 1M Clearview AI searches, says founder

Crimes Clearview has helped solve include murder and the devastating scourge of ... shoplifting

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Oh, Snap. openSUSE downloads increasing, and Leap 15.5 is coming soon

Could have something to do with Ubuntu kicking Flatpak. Meanwhile, SUSE may be pulling up closer to rival Red Hat

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Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead

Microsoft's attention has moved on, but flame still alive

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Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry

Aimed to make it twice as fast, more consistent and more compatible

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Lebanon's IT folks face double trouble as leaders delayed Daylight Savings Time

Planes are taking off before check in time, healthcare and finance sectors also in a mess

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Jack Ma is back, and he has some feelpinions to share

Offering wisdom on AI signals the Alibaba boss is in Beijing's good books again

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AWS security exec: You don't want to win this database popularity contest

Data guarding requires better 'education, better technology, and better automation'

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British Prime Minister Sunak’s plans for UK NFT on ice

Consultation with the Treasury puts non-fungible token proposals under review

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Moon's glass beads contain enough water to support a mission

Thought Icelandic glacier water was rare? How about chugging down some Moon water

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APNIC backed off naming naughty nominees after injunction threat

Code of conduct complaints were not publicized in case it disrupted voting

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