A hot potato: The much debated Manifest V3 tech will not arrive in January as originally planned. Google is listening to developers’ feedback, as developers have expressed concern about the short period of time the company was giving the industry to adapt to such a disruptive change. The “extension apocalypse” […]
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New HomeKit lighting controls coming to Kasa Smart product line
TP-Link is adding three new products to its collection of Apple HomeKit-compatible smart lighting controls, which are marketed under the Kasa Smart brand. The Kasa KS220 Smart Wi-Fi Light Switch, Dimmer ($27.99 ); Kasa KS200 Smart Wi-Fi Light Switch ($24.99); and the Kasa EP40A Smart Outdoor Plug ($29.99) all connect […]
Liquid cooling makes high density storage more reliable, study shows
The big picture: Liquid cooling hard drives results in lower power consumption, less unwanted vibration, and more efficient heat transfer in comparison to air cooled solutions. In the future, this will allow server infrastructures to cool more densely packed storage servers. A trend that is continuously growing as internet usage […]
macOS Ventura 13.1 with Freeform, iCloud Advanced Data Protection now available
On Tuesday, Apple released the first major update to macOS Ventura, version 13.1. It brings bug fixes, security updates, and several features that aren’t in the initial release. What’s new in macOS Ventura 13.1? macOS 13.1 brings the usual bug fixes and security updates and well as several new features: […]
Microsoft said to be trying to stop EU Teams antitrust probe • The Register
Updated Microsoft, already under the European Union’s microscope for its $69 billion bid for game maker Activision Blizzard, reportedly wants to talk to regulators there to try to see off legal action against Teams based on an antitrust complaint levied two years ago by rival Slack. Slack, the workspace messaging […]
Essential Strategy For Big Data | DataDrivenInvestor
November 22, 2022 2 min read Machines complement humans. Data is multifaceted, and making sense of it demands a fresh approach with ancient roots “Mega biblia, mega kakon” (Big books, big evil) — Callimachus. When producing data was a significant problem, humongous work went into preserving, translating, and maintaining the meaning and significance. […]
Find your way into data related Microsoft Azure certifications
Microsoft Azure has certification paths for many technical job roles such as developer, Data Engineer, Data Scientist and solution architect among others. Each of these certifications consists of passing an exam or a serie of exams to earn a certification. In this document we provide guidance on how to dig […]
Traefik, Docker and dnsmasq to simplify container networking
Good tech adventures start with some frustration, a need, or a requirement. This is the story of how I simplified the management and access of my local web applications with the help of Traefik and dnsmasq. The reasoning applies just as well for a production server using Docker. My dev […]
A Nonprofit Spent 5 Years Counting a Million Credentials. What Does It All Add Up To?
For the past five years, researchers have been carefully counting all the degrees, certificates and badges available for people to earn in the U.S., a figure they say now totals 1,076,358. And for the past five years, some observers have scratched their heads about this enumeration endeavor and asked … […]
Desacralizing the Linux overlay filesystem in Docker
Overlay filesystems (also called union filesystems) is a fundamental technology in Docker to create images and containers. They allow creating a union of directories to create a filesystem. Multiple filesystems, which are just directories, are superposed one on top of another to create a new filesystem. These directories are called […]