Clout drought

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When Anna Wintour failed to extend a single Met Gala invite to anyone from Computer Weekly this year, she sent out a clear message to the entire world: tech is out.
We were left to only imagine what our resident influencers might have done with this year’s “camp” theme while these pretenders …READ MORE

Ryan Priest750 pointsBadges:

Do we all have to be up in the cloud? Enter edge computing

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Although it’s hardly a secret, a steep rise in the number of connected devices around us is set to change the way we live, work and interact with technology. By 2025, forecasts indicate that there will be as many as 75 billion smart devices globally, introducing us to a new era of hyper-connectivity…READ MORE

Joseph Dureau20 pointsBadges:

SADA Systems taps Google Cloud solutions lead Miles Ward as CTO

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When SADA Systems hired Miles Ward as CTO, his gear arrived at the Los Angeles-based cloud technology consultancy before he did.

Ward, formerly director and global lead for solutions at Google Cloud, officially joined SADA Systems on May 20. But the equipment he ordered to build an Anthos demonst…READ MORE

John Moore3,795 pointsBadges:

Perfect Win10 Relimon Score 10 Days Straight

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I can’t complain about Windows 10 Version 1809. A quick look at Reliability Monitor (aka Relimon, easily run as perfmon /rel) says why. Right now,  my production PC shows a perfect Win10 Relimon score 10 days straight and counting. In past months, that score has dipped below 5 numerous times. That …READ MORE

Ed Tittel12,950 pointsBadges:

SuSE storage spins-up Ceph

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Open source software platform company SuSE has announced SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, a software-defined storage solution powered by Ceph technology.

Many would argue that storage on its own is snorage (i.e. enough to send you to sleep), but software -defined storage does at least drive us forward…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater17,095 pointsBadges:

How racist bias is embedded in software systems

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The issue of racist bias encoded in software made mainstream news last week, with a report on Channel Four news highlighting how software for profiling criminal suspects, tend to have racial biases.

Such software relies on a dataset, which is weighted against non-white individuals. Arrest data co…READ MORE

Cliff Saran11,030 pointsBadges:

Making WordPress a globally distributed application on Azure WebApps

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Before I start, I’m just going to say that if I can do this with WordPress, then it can be done with anything.

The goal that I was going for to have a WordPress website that was running on multiple contents (I only used two regions, but this can be scalled out as needed to other regions as needed…READ MORE

Denny Cherry68,835 pointsBadges:

Windows Server 2019 updates with CIM

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Windows Server 2019 updates with CIM remain the same as all server versions post Windows Server 2016. This code will check for and install any updates. Micorosft Update or WSUS will be used depending on how your system is configured

$au = Invoke-CimMethod -Namespace root/microsoft/windows/windows…READ MORE

Richard Siddaway9,310 pointsBadges:

Smart Tech 2019 Focuses On Present And Future of VTS @itriangleindia

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The key focus on the two days Smart Tech 2019 event organized by Smart Mobility Association was on the Present and Future of Vehicle Tracking Technology. Most of the talks and panel discussions revolved around the various aspect of the topic. This was a 2-day industry symposium and hence there was a…READ MORE

Jaideep Khanduja18,800 pointsBadges:

Brexit: golden rules and taboo questions

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The Brexit debate sees the endless repetition of mendacious claims, meaningless slogans and fake news. But key questions appear off limits – because no-one wants to discuss the possible answers.  They reveal that what is a stake is not a simple matter of “in” or “out”. It is what is allowed to happ…READ MORE

Philip Virgo4,120 pointsBadges:

Socks And IoT – What Do They Have In Common?

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So – another year and another Netevents; lots of old faces (not least mine!) and a few new ones. And it’s kind of the same with topics – understandably – as there’s only so much you can talk about in what is an increasingly condensed IT world.

Think about it – let’s take networking …READ MORE

Steve Broadhead680 pointsBadges:

Brits want their banks to offer the latest fintech services but are not ready to use them

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If I had a pound every time somebody mentioned to me that London is one of the world’s capitals of fintech, I would probably be a bank.

And I don’t doubt it. I currently have a file full of recordings of fintech interviews that I have not yet had time to write up. Most of these companies are …READ MORE

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Has the UK government's cloud-first policy served its purpose?

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The government has confirmed its long-standing public cloud-first policy is under review, and that it is seeking to launch an alternative procurement framework to G-Cloud. But why?

It is hard not to read too much into all the change occurring in the public sector cloud procurement space at the mo…READ MORE

Caroline Donnelly6,770 pointsBadges:

Are we ready for a multi-task ID card? SAS 70

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Recently I received my credit card statement and interest rate had increased to 35%. This was not the Christmas present I was expecting. I am so glad Congress has enacted new rules to prevent this type of customer service from happening to you.
 
As the government continues to provide bailo…READ MORE

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Black Girls Code CEO: problem proximity & standing back both crucial for change

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Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and CEO of Black Girls Code (BGC), a non-profit organisation dedicated to ‘changing the face of technology’ by introducing girls of colour (her preferred term) between the ages of 7 to 17 to the field of technology and computer science with a concentration on entre…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater17,095 pointsBadges:

Serious Communication

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Yesterday, on the twitters, I had this conversation about communication with Michael Bolton:

It’s a simple answer. It is an easy answer.

And yet, when the tester asks “What exactly do you mean by soak testing?” they are likely to get non-answers. The manager may at first ac…READ MORE

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Growing fast, OpenStack shakes off old misconceptions

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One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new name for the OpenStack users and friends conferences – in Denver was how many people wanted to know if I thought OpenStack had yet overcome its perception problem.

And a problem it is – or increasingl…READ MORE

Bryan Betts260 pointsBadges:

The Strange Case of Seattle University's 'Lost' Laptop

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There’s been another case of Companies Behaving Badly with customer data: In this particular case, Seattle University’s “lost” laptop.

“On March 28, 2019, Seattle University was informed by an employee that an unencrypted university-issued laptop was lost while the employee was commuting on a…READ MORE

Sharon Fisher9,570 pointsBadges:

Five ways to fix Git's 'fatal: repository not found' error

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There’s nothing worse than joining a new development team and eagerly cloning the existing source code repo only to run head first into Git’s ‘fatal: repository not found’ error. For those who struggle with that problem, here are five potential fixes to the frustrating repository not found error mes…READ MORE

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Google focuses more on steering the Android ship than righting it

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Google has been a frequent target of criticism over security and privacy issues and how Android security updates filter out to users, butthe scale of its products has led Google to focus more on steering the ship rather than righting it.

Consider Android: an ecosystem of 2.5 billion active device…READ MORE

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