Microsofts Forced Updates: A Critique of the Global IT Outage

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HackerNoon Profile Pages, Reimagined: A Walkthrough of the Latest Updates!

TL;DR Hey Hackers, exciting news! Weve spruced up our profile pages, and theyre looking better than ever! Ready to take a stroll through the latest design tweaks?

By @product [ 2 Min read ]

Hey Hackers, exciting news! We've spruced up our profile pages, and they're looking better than ever! Ready to take a stroll through the latest design tweaks?

You can now create your own Pixelated Avatar with Hackernoon. Learn more here.

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Meet New Improved BigQuery: Single, Unified AI-Ready Data Platform

TL;DR Google has gone a step further and unified key data Google Cloud analytics capabilities under BigQuery - now the single, AI-ready data analytics platform. 

By @googlecloud [ 6 Min read ]

Using large language models (LLMs) with your business data can give you a competitive advantage, but to realize this advantage, how you structure, prepare, govern, model, and scale your data matters.

Eighty percent of data leaders believe that the lines between data and AI are blurring.

BigQuery helps you:..

Microsofts Forced Updates: A Critique of the Global IT Outage

TL;DR A global IT outage caused by a flawed CrowdStrike update on Microsoft Windows reveals vulnerabilities in digital infrastructure, urging better update and cybers

By @kisican [ 4 Min read ]

Microsoft's role in the situation is equally critical. As a monopoly in operating system markets, any malfunctioning of their products creates sweeping effects. The dependency of innumerable organizations on Microsoft Windows makes even the tiniest disruption in its ecosystem potentially capable of paralyzing operational activities in numerous sectors...

Real or not real? Social Media, Parasocial Relationships, and Internet Influencers

TL;DR They are famous because they appear to be just one of us. But are they really? A tribute to 2010s internet influencers from a fangirl.

By @linh [ 7 Min read ]

I thought: if me, an educated mother of 2 who’s also a business owner feels this way about some weird celebrity “gossips”, then: a. what is wrong with me? and b. I wonder if other people on the internet feel the same way.

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