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December 15, 2023
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Why do companies do holiday layoffs?

What do Twilio, Spotify, and Bending Spoons have in common? They’re all tech companies that laid off employees right before the holidays. Simultaneously, many of those people were going into debt to pay for their holiday gifts. Does anyone see…Read … Continue reading →

December 14, 2023
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Istio Advisor Plus GPT: Expert System Meets AI for Service Mesh

Remember expert systems? Computer scientist Edward Feigenbaum is credited with developing the concept in the 1960s. The idea was by putting a rules-based system, typically written in the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) language, Lisp, on top of a…Read More

December 13, 2023
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This is how to protect your computers from LogoFAIL attacks

The Binarly REsearch team, a firmware supply chain security platform company, has uncovered a constellation of security vulnerabilities called LogoFAIL hiding with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interfaces (UEFI) that we use for booting almost all…Read More

December 11, 2023
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The best mobile VPNs of 2023

NordVPN features: Simultaneous connections: 6 | Kill switch: Yes | Mobile platforms Android, iOS, Chrome, and Firefox | Logging: None, except billing data | Countries: 60 | Servers: 5000+ | Trial/MBG: 30 days | Google Play rating: 4.5 | App … Continue reading →