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World leaders and diplomats framed the fight against global warming as a battle for human survival during opening speeches at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt on Monday, with the head of the United Nations declaring a lack of progress so far had the world speeding down a “highway to hell”.

If you were among the first to take a break from Twitter after Elon Musk’s turbulent takeover, we have exciting news – Inoreader now supports Mastodon!

Backstage, which joined the CNCF Incubator in March of this year has seen considerable interest, with the project hosting its first co-located event – BackstageCon – at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North…

Samsung is mass producing a 1 terabit 3D NAND chip with the highest bit density in the industry meaning more flash memory for smartphones, smart cars, SSDs and servers. The K90VGK8J8B chip uses Sammy’s gen 8 V-NAND (Vertical-NAND) technology with, we understand, 236 layers and cells organised into TLC (3 bits/cell format). It uses a […]

One of Twitter's first investors says more people in Musk's inner circle need to speak out and challenge him while he runs the social media company.

Universities and unnamed semiconductor companies to build leading-edge chip research hub.

The video platform said it had limited the spread of misinformation ahead of Election Day, but new research showed that false narratives continued to slip through.

Adversarial policy attacks blind spots in the AI—with broader implications than games.

Some personal traits can be changed, and some cannot. The dimensions where people tend to improve with time and coaching are reliably distinct from the dimensions that don't tend to change even with significant time and coaching.

Ghostwriter is a tremendous open-source writing app with Markdown support for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Learn more here.

Ukrainian hacktivists claim to have breached the Central Bank of Russia, stealing thousands of internal documents.

Global venture funding reached $27 billion in October 2022, remaining flat month over month and down more than 50% year over year.

Administrators and security teams who have lost visibility into their own networks can use DNS telemetry to home in on anomalous traffic.

Would a paywall really solve Twitter’s biggest problems?

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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, said last month that many “teams will stay flat or shrink over the next year” as his company faces economic challenges.

Since Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, some of its users have migrated to Mastodon, an alternative social platform.

Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.

https://t.co/lt6A7XqxoR pic.twitter.com/JOVY64QLT9— ma.nu (@lmanul) November 7, 2022

What I'm hearing from inside Twitter:Several people who were let go on Friday, then asked to come back were given less than an hour as a deadline.Software engineers who got this call I know of all said "no" and the only ones who could eventually say "yes" are on visas.Also:— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 7, 2022

Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindication

ARM is working to beef up its software stack as the big three cloud providers have begun putting ARM processor designs in cloud native environments.

As companies face tightening budgets, many may be considering trimming their workforce. But of course, outright layoffs are expensive and risky. That’s why some have turned to a subtler strategy: quiet firing, or intentionally creating a hostile work environment that encourages people to leave “voluntarily.” The authors’ new research sheds light on how employees can tell if they’re being quietly fired, including changes to work responsibilities, compensation, and communication, and offers ten tactical steps workers can take before throwing in the towel.

Thanks to all who stopped by at the AWS booth while at KubeCon, attended AWS’s Container Day featuring Amazon EKS, or came to the Open Source After Dark Party. We hope you enjoyed the conference and used the time to re-connect with peers and other people in the industry. AWS Container Announcements EKS is now available in the Middle East Region (UAE) Introducing the Amazon EKS Delivery Program The EKS Delivery program is a new partner designation that’s intended to highlight SI partners that have proven capabilities to architect, run, and operate containerized workloads on Amazon EKS.

After Twitter Inc laid off roughly half its staff on Friday following Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition, the company is now reaching out to dozens of employees who lost their jobs and asking them to return, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday.

I found this proposal for improvements to error handling in Go interesting, but still not something I’d be happy to see implemented. Allow me to clear up my thoughts on Go’s errors. Overall, I prefer how Go forces me to think about errors at every turn. When working in try/catch languages like JavaScript, I often easily forget which functions can throw. Even if I do remember, it’s easy to think “I think this gets caught somewhere up the call chain”.

Utility that provides an API platform for validating, querying, updating and managing standardized SBOMs - GitHub - IBM/sbom-utility: Utility that provides an API platform for validating, querying,...

We look at how fuzzing should have caught the OpenSSL Punycode vulnerability, and why that code was even necessary in the first place.

Ukraine's fears that its troops  may lose access to Elon Musk's crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week after 1,300 of the military's satellite units went offline, according to two sources familiar with the outage.