EU agreement prohibits Microsoft from preventing CrowdStrike OS modifications
Microsoft is prohibited by the EU from preventing CrowdStrike from modifying privileged, low level OS code that led to the global IT collapse.
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Software: Crowdstrike never heard of pilot testing and phased rollouts
Crowdstrike takes down the entire world.
AI: Google scales back “AI Overviews”
… because AI Overviews was often spouting nonsense: Google Pumps Brakes on AI Overviews Search After Telling Us to Eat Glue, Rocks (msn.com)
Software: Everyone is running Linux?
I often hear that Windows is terrible, everyone is using Linux. Except just 4% of PC users use Linux. Data tells a different story.
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Public health Reminder: 4 years since UCL’s Neil Ferguson made a fool of himself
4 years since the architect of lockdown broke his own lockdown rules, went off and had a fling, while recovering from Covid-19.
Will ChatGPT replace blogs and bloggers?
Is ChatGPT usage resulting in the end of blogs? The data suggests this is happening.
Software: “The Mythical Man Month” – 1970s versus 2024
If you do software or are interested in organizational design, this is a good review of some key concepts: The “10x engineer:” 50 years ago and now – by Gergely…
Software: White House says stop using C/C++
White House urges developers to dump C and C++ | InfoWorld But will this halt climate change and save us from the ClimateCrisis?
AI: Google admits Gemini AI was tuned to produce nonsense
How many other things have they tuned?