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IT job market is still shrinking

IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year

Half the number of roles axed, and yes you can keep blaming AI The IT jobs market has shrunk for a second year in a row, says tech consultancy Janco Associates, but at least things weren't as bad in 2024 as they were in 2023.

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I'm also not much of a programmer and would like to skirt around anything Amazon-based.

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Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition

You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy Researchers at cyber-defense contractor PeopleTec have found that facial recognition algorithms' focus on specific areas of the face opens the door to subtler surveillance avoidance strategies.

Just had to send an "if it's not electronic it's not ewaste" email and sigh.

Hacker News: Lazarus Group Targets Web3 Developers with Fake LinkedIn Profiles in Operation 99

The Register: Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan

Nvidia plots Quantum Day at GTC 2025 for tech it called a distant dream

Don't believe the hype GPU maker jumps on the bandwagon anyway A week after Nvidia chief Jensen Huang demolished the market valuations of listed quantum computing brands by saying the technology is 20 years away from being useful, the GPU maker has confirmed it is hosting a quantum computing day.

NVIDIA's CEO predicts IT will become the HR of AI agents. Onboarding, training, and managing digital workers will be their new tasks.

Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published

Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on Devices that have Citrix's Session Recording software installed are having problems completing this month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, which includes important fixes.

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Microsoft heeft aangekondigd de ondersteuning voor Office-apps op Windows 10 stop te zetten nadat het besturingssysteem zijn einde van de ondersteuning bereikt op 14 oktober.

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'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages

Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio Meta has developed a machine learning model its researchers claim offers near-instant speech-to-speech translation between around 36 languages.

All my years of seniority allow me to raise my hand in a Teams meeting and intervene with "Hi, I'm Alex and I'm a huge pain in the arse. Have you considered..."

Same, laser module, same.

Hacker News: Google Ads Users Targeted in Malvertising Scam Stealing Credentials and 2FA Codes

The Register: FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America

Apologise for no updates today... I've started back , as an and assistant. First good productive day I must say... even though things were a bit hectic.

Microsoft onderzoekt een bug die beveiligingswaarschuwingen veroorzaakt op systemen met een Trusted Platform Module (TPM)-processor nadat BitLocker is ingeschakeld.

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AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters

Bubble What bubble Fears of an AI bubble have yet to scare off venture capitalists and private equity firms from pumping billions of dollars into the GPU-packed datacenters at the heart of the machine-learning craze.

Geen nieuws natuurlijk, maar wat gaan we er aan doen

Er zijn echt wel oplossingen. Je moet de definitie van die oplossingen alleen niet laten schrijven door .

Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year

US, Japan, South Korea vow to intensify counter efforts North Korean blockchain bandits stole more than half a billion dollars in cryptocurrency in 2024 alone, the US, Japan, and South Korea say.

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Hacker News: North Korean IT Worker Fraud Linked to 2016 Crowdfunding Scam and Fake Domains

The Register: Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V

Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job so HR can 'do less of the repetitive stuff'

She doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear, but she'll craft a polite email message Interview  Mega HR, a Florida-based human resources startup, today launched an AI agent service called Megan that the biz claims can automate most recruiting and hiring tasks while improving communication with job applicants

Status der Angriffsflchen im DACH-Raum

Das deren AntiVir Software und unverschlsselte E-Mails des fteren deren IT-Schwche ist, ist das Einte aber aus welchem Grund auch immer auf Windows zu beharren verstehe ich je lnger je weniger. Offene Dateiformate zum sich Austauschen ist im Grunde der Weg zur mehr Sicherheit und nicht dem Verharren auf die Software-Monopolisten.

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Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI

Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027 Most businesses rushing to adopt AI are unprepared for the energy demands it'll place on their infrastructure, and few have a handle on the power consumption of AI systems or the implications for their datacenters.

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Dit artikel richt zich op recent gerepareerde kwetsbaarheden die zijn ontdekt in een reeks van Fortinet-producten, waaronder FortiSwitch, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiOS en FortiProxy. ...

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Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home

Threat to quit still preferred to commuting on packed public transport Years after the pandemic reshaped working practices across the world, many staff are still resisting corporate efforts to get them to return to the office preferring instead to quit in favor of a more flexible employer.

Amid a flurry of hype, reorganizes entire team around . Shift ensures the majority of Microsoft's resources will focus on AI.

Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case

Scheme involving bribes, bid rigging and insider info may have cost US taxpayers $1.3M Four defendants have pleaded guilty in a US government IT procurement fraud case, which prosecutors claim has cost taxpayers at least $1.3 million in losses.

Mozilla Firefox en Thunderbird: Kwetsbaarheden Verholpen
Overzicht van Beveiligingsproblemen
Mozilla heeft recent updates uitgebracht voor hun populaire producten Firefox en Thunderbird. Deze updates ...

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Hacker News: The High-Stakes Disconnect For ICS/OT Security

The Register: They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file

Beveiligingsupdate: Kwetsbaarheden Verholpen in Ivanti Endpoint Manager
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SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon

Blue Ghost's first time, and second time lucky for Japanese company ispace SpaceX has successfully completed the 100th launch of a Falcon rocket from pad 39A and sent two landers on their way to the Moon.

British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees

Collective Proceedings Order seeks 1.5B from iGiant Seven weeks of court action began this week as a case over alleged breaches of competition law by Apple is heard at the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).








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