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6 performance tips for Entity Framework Core 7

Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is an open source ORM (object-relational mapping) framework that bridges the gap between the object model of your application and the data model of your database. EF Core makes life simpler by allowing you to work with the database using .NET objects, instead of having to write arcane data access

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Getting started with process mining in Power Automate

Automating business processes is an important way to boost productivity, not only by providing the means to increase throughput, but also by allowing staff to concentrate on other, more important, parts of their jobs. Even in today’s digital businesses, we have electronic equivalents to old fashioned paper pushing, and many important tasks that take longer

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Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022  —  – Revenue revenue rose 13% to $4.33 billion in second quarter  — Inventory rose to 126 days at the end of the quarter

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It’s not just you, Slack appears to be down

Slack has now acknowledged the issues and is investigating the cause. | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Slack, the workplace chat app, is having some issues this morning, with messages failing to send on the service. The service’s status dashboard acknowledged the issues with a post at 5:35AM ET which notes that “Users may

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AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian says thousands of customers, including Sony and Ryanair, have tried its AI services suite Bedrock ahead of a wider roll out “soon” (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: AWS VP Swami Sivasubramanian says thousands of customers, including Sony and Ryanair, have tried its AI services suite Bedrock ahead of a wider roll out “soon”  —  Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O) cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft …

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A Nifty 3D Printed RC Car

Once upon a time, a remote controlled (RC) car was something you’d buy at Radio Shack or your local hobby store. These days, you can print your own, complete with suspension, right at home, as this project from [Logan57] demonstrates. The design uses standard off-the-shelf hobby-grade components, with a brushed motor and controller for propulsion,

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The US DOJ informed a federal judge that Sam Bankman-Fried won’t face the campaign finance charge, which wasn’t part of an extradition document with The Bahamas (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The US DOJ informed a federal judge that Sam Bankman-Fried won’t face the campaign finance charge, which wasn’t part of an extradition document with The Bahamas  —  The Justice Department said late Wednesday that the campaign finance charge was not included in an extradition document with The Bahamas …

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The best Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Plus cases

While any tablet should have a case if it’s on the go, the Galaxy Tab S9 Plus is a larger, 12.4-inch version of Samsung’s regular Tab S9, making protection all the more important. Below, we’ve got the best S9 Plus case options we’ve encountered so far. The number of options is a bit limited at

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Amid Israel’s controversial judicial reforms, many tech companies are protesting or distancing themselves from the country, moving money and their HQs overseas (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

Morgan Meaker / Wired: Amid Israel’s controversial judicial reforms, many tech companies are protesting or distancing themselves from the country, moving money and their HQs overseas  —  As protests rage over Israel’s controversial reforms to the supreme court, many tech companies have been moving their money and headquarters offshore.

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General counsels are increasingly taking a frontline role in companies’ response to cyberattacks as the frequency and sophistication of security breaches grows (Kate Beioley/Financial Times)

Kate Beioley / Financial Times: General counsels are increasingly taking a frontline role in companies’ response to cyberattacks as the frequency and sophistication of security breaches grows  —  Chief legal officers have crucial responsibility in dealing with security breaches  —  Last month, tens of thousands of employees …

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Indonesia restricts X.com, which now redirects to twitter.com after Twitter rebranding to X, as the domain had been previously used by porn and gambling sites (Aisyah Llewellyn/Al Jazeera)

Aisyah Llewellyn / Al Jazeera: Indonesia restricts X.com, which now redirects to twitter.com after Twitter rebranding to X, as the domain had been previously used by porn and gambling sites  —  Medan, Indonesia – Elon Musk’s aspirations for X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, have hit a stumbling block …

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Sources: Netflix is reworking its tech deal with Microsoft for its ad tier to reduce the revenue guarantee and has discussed selling ads through other partners (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix is reworking its tech deal with Microsoft for its ad tier to reduce the revenue guarantee and has discussed selling ads through other partners  —  Streamer asks for patience as it tries to jump-start $6.99 a month ad tier  —  Netflix is restructuring its advertising partnership …

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London-based AutogenAI, which offers a generative AI tool for writing bids and pitches, raised $22.3M; source: the valuation was in the “hundreds of millions” (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based AutogenAI, which offers a generative AI tool for writing bids and pitches, raised $22.3M; source: the valuation was in the “hundreds of millions”  —  Business is regularly won and lost on the strength of a proposal.  Now, a startup out of London called AutogenAI …

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Netflix lists a $900K-a-year AI product manager job that points to the company’s plans to use AI to “create great content”, as actors strike for AI protections (Ken Klippenstein/The Intercept)

Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: Netflix lists a $900K-a-year AI product manager job that points to the company’s plans to use AI to “create great content”, as actors strike for AI protections  —  Rob Delaney said, “My melodious voice?  My broad shoulders and dancer’s undulating buttocks?  I decide how those are used!”

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