Month: July 2024
CrowdStrike blames test software for taking down 8.5 million Windows machines
CrowdStrike has published a post incident review (PIR) of the buggy update it published that took down 8.5 million Windows machines last week. The detailed post blames a bug in test software for not properly validating the content update that was pushed out to millions of machines on Friday. CrowdStrike…
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E-commerce is driving up pollution near warehouses
The data is in, and it shows a significant rise in air pollution where e-retailers build their warehouses, and the neighborhoods hit the hardest have more people of color living in them. Warehouses have mushroomed across the US with the rise of e-commerce — creeping closer to Americans’ homes and…
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Stop following the herd to start fighting ransomware
While a surge in ransomware and data breaches is doing nothing for the confidence in security technologies, the harsh reality today is that organizations cannot rely on isolated data resiliency and disaster recovery strategies to keep out the criminals. Ransomware and extortion incidents grew by 67% last year, according to…
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Five questions to answer before adopting AI-generated code practices
In the digital era, the ability to ship code faster than competitors creates an almost incalculable advantage. It allows businesses to introduce new and better features, be more responsive to customer needs and market trends, and reduces the resources needed for each project. It’s no wonder then that the prospect…
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The Quest 3 is getting a personal assistant courtesy of Meta AI
It’s been a big day for Meta. First off, the tech giant rolled out several new features to Meta AI. And now the same AI model is coming to Quest headsets next month. According to the company’s release video, Meta AI will function as a personal assistant of sorts on the virtual…
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X replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason
Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green-and-orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week. Emoji are universal insofar as they share common designations across platforms (U+1F52B is the water pistol),…
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