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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

Dynatrace

The vulnerability, published as CVE-2021-44228 , enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet, if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. Simply put, attackers can remotely take over any internet-connected device that uses certain versions of the Log4j library anywhere in the software stack.

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What is software automation? Optimize the software lifecycle with intelligent automation

Dynatrace

Consider how AI-enabled chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Bard help DevOps teams write code snippets or resolve problems in custom code without time-consuming human intervention. These include mobile, web, Internet of Things, and application programming interfaces. Operations. Digital experience. Business analytics.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

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Top Frontend Frameworks

KeyCDN

Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. Originally created as an early fork of Angular by engineers at Google, Vue.js Angular Google's flagship JS framework, Angular , has been in development for quite some time.

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