For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use.

I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The 'as-close-to-possible'

Raising awareness about the 2038 bug in all its manifestations and trying to fix things while there’s still time.

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Computerworld covers a range of technology topics, with a focus on these core areas of IT: generative AI, Windows, mobile, Apple/enterprise, office suites, productivity software, and collaboration software, as well as relevant information about companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales have made a world-first research breakthrough demonstrating quantum entanglement between two atoms, a crucial underpinning for scaling quantum computers. Entanglement between at least two qubits is the phenomena that enables information to be encoded on a quantum computer and the information to be processed. This was demonstrated by the UNSW-led team between two electrons on separate phosphorus atoms.The phosphorus atoms were implanted on a silicon chip similar to those in the computers and electronics of today, potentially enabling future manufacturing scale up using existing chip fabrication techniques.

The task came with a sense of helplessness. We knew what "great" looked like, but it was impractical to build all of that functionality.

My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their head. All my life, I could hear my voice in my head and speak in full sentences as if I was…

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Let’s take a brief trip back to our school years and recall some lessons in mathematics and physics. Do you remember what the number π equals? And what is π squared? That’s a strange question too. Of course, it’s 9.87. And do you remember the value of the acceleration due to gravity, g? Of course, that number was drilled into our memory so thoroughly that it’s impossible to forget: 9.81 m/s². Naturally, it can vary, but for solving basic school problems, we typically used this value.

Coroot is an open-source APM & Observability tool, a DataDog and NewRelic alternative. Metrics, logs, traces, continuous profiling, and SLO-based alerting, supercharged with predefined dashboards and inspections. - coroot/coroot

: Foundations say billions of downloads rely on registries running on fumes – and someone's gotta pay the bills

This Ansible collection provides battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, nginx, MySQL - dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening

One of the central predictions of general relativity is that a massive object such as a star, galaxy, or black hole can deflect light passing nearby. This means that light from distant objects can be gravitationally lensed by objects closer to us. Under the right conditions, gravitational lensing can act as a kind of natural telescope, brightening and magnifying the light of distant objects. Astronomers have used this trick to observe some of the most distant galaxies in the universe. But astronomers have also thought about using this effect a little closer to home.