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Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco

theregister.com

Birmingham City Council did not tell its official auditors about the disastrous Oracle implementation for ten...
Birmingham City Council did not tell its official auditors about the disastrous Oracle implementation for ten months after the suite of applications went live, and appeared to obstruct access to the new system needed to complete their work. Since it replaced aging SAP finance software with Oracle's cloud-based Fusio...
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AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem

pragmaticengineer.com

Imagine you’re the cofounder of a startup hiring its first few software engineers, and there’s a...
Imagine you’re the cofounder of a startup hiring its first few software engineers, and there’s a candidate who smashes the technical interview, and is the only one to complete the full coding interview – doing so with time to spare. Their communication style is a bit unconventional, but this could be explained by la...
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My Stupid Noise Journey

dynomight.net
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I stopped everything and started writing C again

kmx.io

2025-03-11 18:34:41 Displayed 4189 times I've been a good student for 5 years at a French...
2025-03-11 18:34:41 Displayed 4189 times I've been a good student for 5 years at a French computer school. I've been a good freelance developer for 20 years. I've used Ruby on Rails exclusively however never writing my own code always for clients. One day I learned Common Lisp. It was supposed to be a short mission ...
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EU to impose counter tariffs on $28 billion of US goods

reuters.com
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The OSI First to Endorse United Nations Open Source Principles

un.org
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The Biggest Glitch in Final Fantasy VII Explained [video]

youtube.com

gaming
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TSMC pitches Intel foundry joint venture to Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom

seekingalpha.com
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Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets

binarysecurity.no
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The State of Coherence in the Land of Type Classes

programming-journal.org
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I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts

nickcraux.com

Posted on March 12, 2025AI for coding is in a weird spot right now.You get people...
Posted on March 12, 2025AI for coding is in a weird spot right now.You get people claiming that you can build a complete SaaS in 3 days, and others saying that it's worse than useless. Both of these people are probably just exaggerating or straight up lying.I love coding with Cursor, it's completely changed the way ...
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Gemma3 – The current strongest model that fits on a single GPU

ollama.com
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Lightning over Shipping Lanes Suddenly Halved Following New Regulations

sciencealert.com

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you'll notice an...
If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you'll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the lightning really is responding to the ships, or rather the tiny particles they emit. Using data from a global lightning detec...
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A more robust raw OpenBSD syscall demo

nullprogram.com
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Sovereign Lumber

plainopen.com

Two talks that stood out for me at 2024 Open Source Experience conference in December were...
Two talks that stood out for me at 2024 Open Source Experience conference in December were by Emily Omier, with the software analogy to lumber and chairs, and by Jutta Horstmann on software sovereignty in Europe being more urgent than ever. These connected strongly in my mind, and hit at the essence of what’s missin...
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First official release of LLVM Flang

llvm.org

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When Corporate Branding Goes Wrong

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A British investment firm restored most of the vowels to its name after a widely ridiculed revamp that showed the pitfalls of trying to look cool in the digit...

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The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon

soatok.blog

Towards the end of last year, we learned that a group (allegedly affiliated with the Chinese...
Towards the end of last year, we learned that a group (allegedly affiliated with the Chinese government, referred to as “Salt Typhoon”) breached T-Mobile and other telecommunications companies and caused all sorts of havoc. This isn’t really a blog post about that incident, but it was the catalyst that inspired a bi...
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Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]

storage.googleapis.com
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There is zero chance I would use MCP – LangChain Creator

langchain.dev

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is creating quite the stir on Twitter – but is it actually...
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is creating quite the stir on Twitter – but is it actually useful, or just noise? In this back and forth, Harrison Chase (LangChain CEO) and Nuno Campos (LangGraph Lead) debate whether MCP lives up to the hype.Harrison: I’ll take the position that MCP is actually useful. I was skeptical ...

in the loop
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RPMB, a secret place inside the eMMC

sergioprado.blog
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Show HN: XPipe, a shell connection hub for SSH, Docker, K8s, VMs, and more

xpipe.io
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Mozilla's response to proposed remedies in U.S. vs. Google

mozilla.org

Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in...
Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed remedies barring all search payments to browser developers are adopted by the court, these misguided plans would be a direct hit to small and independent browser...
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Internationalization-puzzles: Daily programming puzzles just like Advent of Code

i18n-puzzles.com
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