Software: US govt says to stop using C/C++
It's about them being memory unsafe, by design...
Tech: Apple’s iOS 18 update bricks some iPads
Apple bricks some iPads with iOS 18 update. Apple tends to do this, as well as rapidly ending support for older products.
Software: CrowdStrike provides a preliminary report on what they did wrong
Falcon Content Update Preliminary Post Incident Report | CrowdStrike
Software: A Must Read on the Crowd Strike Fiasco
This is an excellent description and explanation of what happened.
Software: Professional Software Engineer licensure
Does the CrowdStrike fiasco imply a need for Professional Engineer licensing for software engineers working on critical infrastructure?
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)
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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.
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…