The Register John Weiler Amazon Web Services United States Space Force ... who actually understands how #federal #technology #procurement is supposed to work, and how it usually really works in practice, and is working to narrow that gap.
Kudos to Thomas Claburn for writing this and The Register for running it.
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Five years ago today, my friend & Washington Post Opinions writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by agents of Saudi Arabia.

For today's paper, I wrote about a disturbing TIME party held in the aftermath of his murder--which taught me how cruel U.S. media can be.

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'Elon Fires Half Of Twitter’s Election Integrity Team, Because A Manager Liked A Tweet Calling Him A Fucking Dipshit'

techdirt.com/2023/09/28/elo…

Ben Vinegar Python: packaging works fine!

'The sudo command-line tool has been implemented in the Rust programming language to hopefully rid it of any exploitable memory-safety bugs.' Thanks to Thomas Claburn for covering our stable release of sudo-rs in your The Register article! buff.ly/44HcS2v

Great article on our Scalene profiler github.com/plasma-umass/s…, with a priceless subtitle shout-out to Dolly Parton to boot! 'This profiler chatbot promises to help speed up your Python – we can believe it' theregister.com/2023/08/30/sca… via The Register Sam Stern Juan Altmayer Pizzorno

Wonderful reporting on surveillance vendors contacting developers of browser extensions and the pressure to accept $20K/month of 'passive income without any PR risks.'

Great sentiments by the Hover Zoom+ developer, Oleg Anashkin.
Oleg Anashkin Thomas Claburn

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Soooo... affirmative action based on race is okay when it's about who gets to die for their country?

Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT dlvr.it/SrNjKz

He's going to need a bigger table.

The world needs peace!

Moscow should cede territory to Wagner and not prolong this needless suffering

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On June 5, 1989, six photographers captured a lone protester facing down a column of tanks near #TiananmenSquare . 'Tank Man' was born. This version by jeff widener is the most widely published. 'I focused my 400/5.6 and waited for the instant he would be shot. But he was not.”🧵

Obligatory Memorial Day reading: Jim LaPorta's thread of the dead.

twitter.com/JimLaPorta

Big Tech doesn't steal news CONTENT—it steals news's MONEY, through a rigged ad-tech duopoly where buyers & sellers are 'represented' by ad-tech companies that also own the marketplace. No wonder the majority of ad dollars are grabbed by tech companies:
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Leaked Kyndryl files show 55 was average age of laid-off US workers reg.cx/48Cc?utm_sourc…

Always Bet on JS.

Twitter's impersonation problem is wild.

Over 140 fakes of just one user.

In this case, Alex Gladstein (Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡) of the Human Rights Foundation Human Rights Foundation.

Don't believe me? Do the search yourself.

GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot copyright lawsuit reg.cx/48tc?utm_sourc…

Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize, CEO hits back reg.cx/48jy?utm_sourc…

Thanks so much Thomas Claburn for quoting me in The Register on Microsofts adoption of #rustlang .

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