Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom’s VMware herd captive. Don’t be cowed by LinuxBender

Opinion With Broadcom putting the bite on VMware customers with more abandon than Dracula in a blood bank, one has to wonder. Why hang around? Why better bled than fled? Plenty of other enterprise-class VM options are available. Is it Stockholm syndrome? Has Broadcom given the head of marketing job to the Hypnotoad? Is it

ByHackTechFebruary 2, 20250Comments

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The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger by Brajeshwar

The MOVEit incident eclipses them, though, both in the number of victim organizations and individuals whose data was compromised. Antivirus company Emsisoft has been tracking the number of MOVEit victim organizations that have publicly declared they were impacted since May. The researchers have combed individual US state breach notifications, filings with the US Securities and

ByHackTechOctober 2, 20230Comments

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The world keeps turning: me and the Luddites by hhs

I wrote most of this column in July 2021, but never submitted it, fearing I would be quickly pigeonholed as just another old-man-grouch. But a group of Brooklyn teenagers, recently featured in The New York Times, have given me the strength and inspiration to come out of my technological closet with a shocking admission: I don’t have

ByHackTechSeptember 16, 20230Comments

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Why Wall Street Keeps on Fighting the Fed by jarsin

In the press conference that followed the regular March FOMC meeting last Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell had a clear and loud message for Wall Street: No interest rate cuts in the offing.That should have disappointed traders and investors in U.S. debt and equities who beat up bonds and stocks ahead of the

ByHackTechMarch 31, 20230Comments

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Elon Musk keeps laying off Twitter employees after saying cuts were done by mfiguiere

Skip to main content / Meanwhile, he is still giving aggressive deadlines to make sweeping changes, like revamping how ad targeting works in a week. Feb 22, 2023, 12:42 AM UTC|Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesOn November 21st, Elon Musk gathered Twitter’s remaining employees at its San Francisco headquarters to tell them

ByHackTechFebruary 22, 20230Comments

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Java Usage Keeps Climbing, According to New Survey by ghuntley

Java may not be the most cloud-friendly of languages, but that hasn’t slowed down its usage, according to results from SlashData’s “State of the Developer Nation” report for the third quarter of 2022. Just under half of the active developers worldwide (49%) reported that they use Java, compared with 39% who said so in Q3…

ByHackTechDecember 10, 20220Comments

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