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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52190045

Great, now can you do this to the NSA?

Europe faces a critical dependency on US cloud infrastructure, with 90% of its digital infrastructure controlled by American companies, according to competition expert Cristina Caffarra[^1]. This vulnerability has spurred concrete action, with public institutions in Austria, Germany, France and the International Criminal Court moving away from US providers.

Europe faces a critical dependency on US cloud infrastructure, with 90% of its digital infrastructure controlled by American companies, according to competition expert Cristina Caffarra[^1]. This vulnerability has spurred concrete action, with public institutions in Austria, Germany, France and the International Criminal Court moving away from US providers.

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.

Archived version

Archived version

Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55485315

The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) will add an AI chatbot to its GOV.UK app in early 2026, before rolling it out across the GOV.UK website

Technicians working on a firewall upgrade made at least ten mistakes, contributing to two deaths, according to a report on a September incident that saw Australian telco Optus unable to route calls to emergency services.

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.

Looks like they #buyFromEu 🎉(perspectively).

Airbus is preparing to migrate its mission-critical applications to a sovereign European cloud, launching a tender worth over €50 million. The move reflects growing corporate concern over data control under U.S. laws like the CLOUD Act — and highlights the urgent need for mature, secure European alternatives, even as Airbus admits the odds of finding a suitable provider are only 80/20.

On average, AI-generated pull requests (PRs) include about 10.83 issues each, compared with 6.45 issues in human-generated PRs. That’s about 1.7x more when AI is involved, meaning longer code reviews and increased risk of defects.

CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers

updated: Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.

Chinese espionage crew ‘Ink Dragon’ expands its snooping activities into European government servers

hands on: Powered by the original mobile Linux OS with crowdsourced specs

Minister insists ‘modest’ bill is not an assault on privacy-preserving tech

“the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it’s highly durable. It’s also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.”

After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.

Symlink bug in Gogs lets attacker commit a repo with a symlink pointing to a system file, and then Gogs will access the file under its own permissions I guess. Not good. Gogs should only run as an untrusted user though anyway.

By ‘Git instances’ they mean Gogs instances that allow open registration. I know most of the community moved from Gogs to Gitea, and then to Forgejo, but thought this was still worth noting.

‘User Alignment Critic’ will review agentic actions so bots don’t do things like emptying your bank account

Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say

re:invent: The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years

Exclusive: One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they’ll have to pass it on

Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance

Infosec In Brief Switzerland’s Conference of Data Protection Officers, Privatim, last week issued a resolution calling on Swiss public bodies to avoid using hyperscale clouds and SaaS services due to security concerns.

The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.

Training outfit scrambles to fix all-male lineup before December kickoff

If that’s a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE – and tmux

Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens

Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it’s down to 57 percent.

Pebble, the e-ink smartwatch with a tumultuous history, is making a move sure to please the DIY enthusiasts that make up the bulk of its fans: Its entire software stack is now fully open source, and key hardware design files are available too.

Or maybe even sooner, warns Octave Klaba, as AI sends storage costs soaring

The COVID-19 lockdown meant a surge in remote work, and the trend toward remote and hybrid workplaces has persisted long after the pandemic receded. That has changed the nature of workplace management as well. Bosses can’t check for butts in seats or look over their employees’ shoulders in the office to make sure they’re working instead of having a LAN party. So they’ve turned to software tools to fill the gap.

Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats