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Pat Gelsinger Out at Intel
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CNBC (MacRumors, Hacker News): Intel ousted CEO Pat Gelsinger over the weekend, capping a tumultuous nearly four-year tenure at what was America’s leading semiconductor company before its stock price and market share collapsed. The company announced Gelsinger’s resignation Monday morning, which a person familiar with the matter said came after a contentious board meeting last […]
Modern CSV 2.1
Adam Engst: Because CSV is an interchange format, I usually import files into a spreadsheet, make any necessary changes, and then save, print, or export for whatever my next step is. I usually use Excel for processing because it can save an opened CSV without a separate export step, which Numbers requires. Google Sheets would […]
Microsoft-Trusted ICP-Brasil Certificate for google.com
Andrew Ayer (via Hacker News): A Brazilian certificate authority trusted only by Microsoft has issued a presumably-unauthorized certificate for google.com.This can used to intercept traffic to Google from Edge and other Windows applications (except Chrome and Firefox). Hug-ops to Google folks.Microsoft are well aware of the extensive history of problems with this CA - I […]
Microsoft at 50
Steven Levy: [Nadella] tells a story from a few years ago, when a group of tech analysts came from China to take the measure of Silicon Valley. They attended all the key developer’s conferences: Apple’s WWDC, Google I/O, AWS Re:Invent, and of course, Microsoft’s own Build. “They said, ‘God, you know what? For anything that […]
FTC Opens Microsoft Antitrust Investigation
Kyle Wiggers: The FTC has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, accordingtomultiplereports that corroborate earlier reporting by the Financial Times.The agency is said to be looking into whether Microsoft violated antitrust law in multiple segments of its business, including its public cloud, AI, and cybersecurity product lines. Of particular interest to the FTC is the […]
Microsoft Donates the Mono Project to Wine
Mono (via Hacker News, Slashdot): The Mono Project (mono/mono) (‘original mono’) has been an important part of the .NET ecosystem since it was launched in 2001. Microsoft became the steward of the Mono Project when it acquired Xamarin in 2016. The last major release of the Mono Project was in July 2019, with minor patch […]
Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
AWS (via Hacker News): Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from unintentionally overwriting the object without knowing the state of its content. You can use this capability by providing […]
Unlisted MindNode Classic
Markus Müller-Simhofer (via John Gordon): Despite our best efforts, we encountered difficulties bringing our planned changes to MindNode. Providing seamless sync, live collaboration, and other new features was impossible when storing documents as files on disk. We revised our plans and started to develop a new app, “MindNode Next,” that now manages its documents directly […]