Month: January 2023

Memo: Salesforce plans to lay off around 10% of its staff and close some offices, expecting to incur $1.4B to $2.1B in charges for the restructuring (Nivedita Balu/Reuters)

Nivedita Balu / Reuters: Memo: Salesforce plans to lay off around 10% of its staff and close some offices, expecting to incur $1.4B to $2.1B in charges for the restructuring  —  Salesforce Inc (CRM.N) said on Wednesday it would lay off about 10% of its employees and close some offices as a part of its

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NASA Declares ‘Space Race’ With China

(Image: Yan Ke/Unsplash)The United States is engaged in a new “space race,” but this time it isn’t with Russia. On the first day of 2023, NASA officials warned that China’s lunar ambitions could soon land its National Space Administration (CNSA) on the moon, allowing the country to dominate precious resources. “It is a fact: we’re

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Bonk, a Shiba Inu-themed coin on Solana issued on December 25, has risen 2,220% in the past week and 150% in the past 24 hours, offsetting some of SOL’s decline (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Bonk, a Shiba Inu-themed coin on Solana issued on December 25, has risen 2,220% in the past week and 150% in the past 24 hours, offsetting some of SOL’s decline  —  The memecoin is up over 150% in the past 24 hours and have recorded some of the highest trading volumes

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Cybersecurity company Rapid7 hires Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the former Twitter security chief and whistleblower, to advise consulting clients (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Cybersecurity company Rapid7 hires Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the former Twitter security chief and whistleblower, to advise consulting clients  —  Former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko, whose whistleblower claim against the company triggered multiple ongoing investigations …

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Why you should use Docker and containers

A book published in 1981, called Nailing Jelly to a Tree, describes software as “nebulous and difficult to get a firm grip on.” That was true in 1981, and it is no less true four decades since. Software, whether it is an application you bought or one that you built yourself, remains hard to deploy, hard to

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Browsing the fediverse

In early November, when the Great Discontinuity happened, I started working on a Steampipe plugin to enable SQL queries against the Mastodon API, along with a companion Steampipe “mod” (suite of dashboards) to display and chart the results of those queries. I expect these dashboards will soon be available in Steampipe Cloud, where it will

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A look at three pieces of Indian government legislation planned in 2023 to regulate US tech giants, mixing EU antitrust rules with China-style surveillance (Megha Mandavia/Wall Street Journal)

Megha Mandavia / Wall Street Journal: A look at three pieces of Indian government legislation planned in 2023 to regulate US tech giants, mixing EU antitrust rules with China-style surveillance  —  American tech firms will face hard choices in India this year  —  The standoff between India and U.S. tech giants will intensify …

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Bitcoin miner Core Scientific plans to shut down mining rigs tied to Celsius Mining, its largest client with 37K+ machines, as both companies undergo bankruptcy (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: Bitcoin miner Core Scientific plans to shut down mining rigs tied to Celsius Mining, its largest client with 37K+ machines, as both companies undergo bankruptcy  —  The two firms have been engaged in litigation over a 2020 hosting contract, which Core Scientific says is costing it $2 million in revenue per

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The US case against alleged Mango Markets manipulator Avraham Eisenberg highlights traders treating crypto as a game, forgetting the real-world consequences (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: The US case against alleged Mango Markets manipulator Avraham Eisenberg highlights traders treating crypto as a game, forgetting the real-world consequences  —  Mango  —  So here’s a trade.  — You open two accounts on a commodity futures exchange, Account A and Account B.

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