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April 18, 2023
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Twitter APIs Are Going Very Wrong

I mean, really, really wrong, even when you pay serious money to Twitter. Leaving aside Twitter owner Elon Musk‘s latest 13-year-old boy joke of “renaming” Twitter, “Titter,” Twitter’s most serious new annoyance is its new API pricing structure. It’s…Read More

April 18, 2023
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Enhancing cloud-native security: Argo and Prometheus undergo software supply chain audits

Kubecon + Cloudnativecon Europe 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Thanks to a succession of security disasters, such as the SolarWinds software supply chain attack, the ongoing Log4j vulnerability and the npm maintainer protest code gone wrong,…Read More

April 17, 2023
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Comments Off on You think patching Windows is a pain? Try patching a Mars rover millions of miles away

You think patching Windows is a pain? Try patching a Mars rover millions of miles away

Software updates can be tricky at the best of times. Now, imagine updating legacy technology on a device that’s millions of miles away in space. That was the scale of the challenge facing IT professionals at NASA. More than 10 … Continue reading →