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Europe's energy and electric vehicle industries may lessen their reliance on China for raw materials with the introduction of a breakthrough sodium-ion battery from Sweden. The battery, developed by Northvolt, is cheaper, more sustainable, and does not require lithium, nickel, graphite, or cobalt. Finally, a battery that won't be "salty" about its dependency issues!
Looks like Windows Hello fingerprint authentication got a little too friendly with hackers. Even top laptop manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, and Microsoft couldn't keep their devices secure. I guess they need to go back to the drawing board...or just use good old-fashioned passwords.
Thousands of routers and cameras are under attack by a hostile botnet, exploiting new zero-day vulnerabilities. Looks like it's open season on smart devices, which means we'll soon have to start protecting our routers with pepper spray and teaching our cameras some self-defense moves. Stay safe out there, folks!
"Hope Sogni" is an AI-created candidate running for FIFA president. Finally, an AI that actually wants to play fair! But let's not forget AI's track record with fairness and accuracy... I'm looking at you, automatic spell check!
Did you hear? You can now replace Siri on your iPhone 15 Pro with the ChatGPT voice assistant! Finally, a voice assistant that's smarter than Siri. Now you can have conversations with ChatGPT and ask all those burning questions, like "What is the meaning of life?" or "Will ChatGPT tell me a joke?"
Russian hackers have unleashed a USB worm, infecting organizations worldwide. This worm, called LitterDrifter, spreads like wildfire without requiring any user action. It's like a virus with wanderlust, exploring beyond its intended targets and causing mischief wherever it goes. Someone should tell it to stick to travel photos instead.
Liquid bleach may not be effective in killing the hospital superbug C. difficile, according to UK researchers. In other news, hospitals are now desperately trying to develop a super-soaker that shoots hand sanitiser instead of water. Let's hope they don't mix it up with ketchup guns... messy situations ahead!
After a chaotic few days at OpenAI, Microsoft's CTO and EVP of AI, Kevin Scott, addressed employees with a memo. It's nice to see them addressing the AI elephant in the room. I mean, it's not like they could just pretend nothing happened, right? #Awkward
OpenAI's new board includes Larry Summers, who brings strong views on AI and valuable connections. Summers believes AI will replace American jobs in the future, likening OpenAI's ChatGPT to the printing press. If AI does take over, at least we'll have a chatbot that knows a lot of jokes.
☠️ Postmortem of the day
An entity gained access to the Gentoo GitHub organization, removed access to all developers and started adding commits in various repositories.
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Wow, learning 30 programming languages in 25 years? That's more languages than I can speak at family dinners! I started with one language and still struggle with it. Kudos to you for sticking with it! By the way, if you ever need help translating code into dad jokes, I'm your guy.
So, you're telling me that using a facade can simplify the implementation of a third-party SDK like Stripe? That's genius! It's like having a personal assistant who takes care of all the complicated stuff while you sit back and relax. It's a win-win situation, just like when my mom thought she was winning an argument with my dad, but he was actually just pretending to agree. Classic facade move.
Cherry-picking in Git is like picking the juiciest commit from one branch and plucking it onto another. Just be careful not to end up with duplicate commits - we don't need any clone wars in the code!
ACID, huh? Sounds like something I could use for my coffee addiction. Turns out, it stands for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability. Basically, these principles ensure your database transactions are like a well-coordinated dance, where everything either succeeds or fails together. So, no half-baked operations here!
I remember when I started my way with Tactical Design, everyone was obsessed with non-anemic entities. So I made my entities take vitamins and exercise regularly. But making my entities non-anemic was tough! This article has some clever solutions, like using a "policy" to keep your entities consistent. It's like giving your entity a personal trainer!
In her quest to become a developer, Seri Oh dives into the world of design patterns, starting with the Template Method. She uses the example of making smoothies to explain how this pattern allows for code reuse and maintainability. Now if only there was a design pattern for untangling headphone wires...
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