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Tech Transforms podcast: A reporter’s take on AI, data privacy, ChatGPT, and TikTok

Dynatrace

Krishan also shares the darker side of the application, including the lack of established fact-checking and the use of personal information scraped from the internet without individuals’ consent. We also chat about disinformation campaigns on social media platforms and the addictive nature of social media.

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

Overall, the improvements can be summarized as: 40% fewer rebuffers Higher video quality for both bandwidth-constrained as well as unconstrained sessions Lower initial bitrate Higher initial quality Lower play delay Less variation in delivered video quality Lower Internet data usage, especially on mobiles and tablets Will HDR-VMAF be open-source?

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How Dynatrace uses Dynatrace to combat the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell)

Dynatrace

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. Log4Shell is a software vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 , a popular Java library for logging information in applications.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

The Morning Paper

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. Local-first software ideals. It should be fast.

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Compatibility Testing – An introduction

Testlodge

The term software compatibility describes how a product should provide the same result across all platforms on which it runs. Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Files may not show.

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How to Test Responsive Web Design Cross-Browser Compatibility

Testsigma

Earlier, people only had a desktop and a limited number of browsers to surf the internet. Media : The next important aspect of a fully responsive website is media, i.e. images or videos. It is crucial to ensure that the media change their size or resolution according to the requirement 3. Vendor-Specific functions 3.

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