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Rust has risen to 20th position in October, up from 26th this time a year ago. It’s the second time it’s been in Tiobe’s top 20 after peaking at 18th position in September 2020, a few months after it reached version 1.0. Paul Jansen, CEO of Tiobe Software, sees Rust as a “small threat” for C and C++ – the two languages that some developers believe Rust should replace for new projects due to its better management of memory security....

Whether you just feel like a casual Minecraft game or looking to compete in professional League of Legends or Fortnite tournaments, you need a gaming rig with the performance you need. Not only can this Refurbished Periphio Ember Gaming PC from 2022 deliver that, but it also looks super sharp while doing it. Also: How much RAM does your Windows 11 PC need? Periphio’s latest model gaming tower adds a Quad-Core Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM to the most recent generation GeForce GTX 1650 overclocked graphics card with 4GB of graphics memory for unmatched performance during all your gaming adventures....

Between accessing entertainment and social media accounts, everyone seems to be spending much more time in the cloud and online than ever before. And considering how much more frequent and severe cybercrime has become, it’s easy to see why so many of us are using the most effective VPN services we can find. However, even that kind of protection doesn’t always feel enough to keep our most sensitive and confidential information safe....

GitHub recently announced that teachers who join GitHub’s Global Campus and use GitHub Classroom now get free access to Codespaces, GitHub’s integrated development environment. In addition, GitHub also announced plans to host two in-person graduation events this month. Hardek said about 1.9 million students are active in the GitHub Education platform. “What is particularly game-changing about Codespaces in the education space is how the development environment is set up,” said Hardek....

I pre-ordered a Pixel 6 Pro and it arrived a couple of weeks ago. My return deadline is tomorrow and it’s all boxed up and ready to head back to Google. Readers know my primary daily driver is the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and while I wasn’t looking for the Pixel 6 Pro to replace it on T-Mobile, I thought it could serve as my Google Fi primary device....

With its first-ever Google Cloud Startup Summit, the company is looking to share best practices, business models and industry-specific approaches with young companies. Google Cloud is also launching new resources and services to mentor and provide support to startups. The headliner of the event is Astro Teller, Google X’s Captain of Moonshots, who will talk about creating a moonshot factory. Ryan Kiskis, director for the startup unit at Google Cloud, said the cloud provider is supporting customers across 128 countries with startups focused on digital banking, travel, healthcare and media....

The new products follow a series of dramatic cybersecurity incidents, including the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that shut down gas and oil deliveries throughout the southeast, the SolarWinds software supply chain attack and an extensive hack on Microsoft Exchange servers. For CSOs, however, there’s no room to breathe easy. “If anything, the attack surface is going to get worse,” Sunil Potti, Google Cloud VP and GM of cloud security, said to reporters last week....

Since Kurian made his debut as cloud chief in 2019, Google Cloud has taken an industry-focused sales approach, tailoring the company’s cloud and AI expertise to key verticals. In his role as GM of Google Cloud’s Global Strategic initiatives, Vemuri has helped the company land some of its most important deals, including partnerships with Ford, Sabre, Globo, Mayo Clinic and Deutsche Bank. As head of Global Strategic Customers & Industries, he’ll continue to build partnerships with enterprise customers that allow them to leverage services across Google – spanning Google Cloud as well as businesses like Google Ads, Maps or Assistant....

Healthcare Datat Engine builds on the core capabilities Google started offering last year with its Cloud Healthcare API. It can map more than 90 percent of Health Level 7 (HL7) v.2 messages to Fast Healthcare interoperability Resource (FHIR) standards across leading electronic health records (EHRs) out of the box. This makes it easier to implement with less custom tooling or services. Once customers bring data in from disparate sources and harmonize it to the FHIR format, they can analyze it using Google BigQuery....

I recently came upon a mesmerizing animated bar chart on the wonderful Visual Capitalist site. I enjoy Visual Capitalist because it’s all charts, all the time, and I have a somewhat unhealthy love of charts. In any case, Visual Capitalist’s James Eagle put together an animated bar chart running from 1993 to January 2022 showing the top ten websites, in terms of traffic. Also: Hackers are increasingly targeting Google Chrome He pulled traffic numbers for each of the sites using a variety of sources....

Signed by Google Brazil president Fabio Coelho, the letter released on Friday (12) criticizes the project introduced in 2020, which aims to regulate platforms with more than 2 million users, who would be responsible for creating rules and mechanisms to identify content that could be considered false clearly. “We recognize the importance of debating solutions to this problem, but we are concerned that the Congress is doing so without considering the negative and unintended consequences the bill could bring”, Coelho argued....

A dark web site this month released a data set of 200 million Twitter profiles. That’s where I found my account’s data. I know my data hadn’t been revealed in earlier releases because I’d checked then. In my business, I take security seriously. On Wednesday, Twitter said that “there is no evidence that data recently being sold was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems.” The company suggests the newly exposed account data in December and January (yes, this is the second recent release) is “likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources....

Paul Prudhomme, cyber threat intelligence advisor at IntSights, examined network access sales on underground Russian and English-language forums before compiling a study on why criminals sell their network access and how criminals transfer their network access to buyers. More than 37% of all victims in a sample of the data were based in North America while there was an average price of $9,640 and a median price of $3,000. The study notes that the kind of access being offered continues to be used in ransomware attacks across the world....

Some host system operators have been reluctant to deploy the new patches, citing dubious and unsupportable claims of insufficient beta testing, an accelerated development cycle, and potential unknown system-wide effects. Regardless, the first three versions of the Pfizer Booster have been remarkably effective in keeping hundreds of millions of potentially affected systems from undergoing emergency intervention or worse – decommissioning. We recently had the opportunity to put Pfizer’s latest software patch, version 4, to the test, after interfacing with a pair of patched but infected systems at a local hibachi restaurant a week ago last Sunday....

Also: Cloud computing use is growing, but so is regulation AWS’ Skills Center in Arlington, VA, meanwhile, is an in-person learning space where community members can enroll in free classes to learn how cloud computing works in gaming, machine learning, robotics, smart home technologies, and space. The center will offer training and resources to help candidates earn a AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Certification, and will facilitate career coaching and host networking events with local employers and organizations....

In its 14 recommendations, the committee said the Department of Home Affairs should establish a working group to “examine the role emerging technologies can play in tracing the geographical origin of products and raw materials”. High up on that list of technologies is blockchain. Among those called out by name were Bluenumber, which has a public blockchain that can be used to identify farmers, as well as New Zealand-based isotope tracking company Oritain, and a self-declared “supply chain social network” company in the form of Sourcemap....

Cloud isn’t just an in-demand skill – it is changing the nature of tech responsibilities, industry observers agree. “It has enabled IT roles to focus on efficiencies with provisioning system resources, by allocating only what the task requires and eliminating wasted resources often seen in physical bare-metal deployments,” says Ryan Renner, senior associate at Schellman. “Cloud computing virtualizes what was once physical hardware and offers hosted implementation models such as software-defined networking, microservices, container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker, and Infrastructure as a Service....

Also: How to add conditional formatting to a Google Sheets drop-down list Or maybe you’re sharing the new Sheet with other users, and you want to limit or simplify the data entry process as much as possible. Ergo… drop-downs. Creating a drop-down in Google Sheets is actually much easier than you might think, thanks to a handy, built-in GUI. Let me show you two different methods for taking care of this handy task....

Below I will walk you through how to add an email account to your ONLYOFFICE deployment. First you’ll need an instance of ONLYOFFICE running (which I demonstrated in the previously-mentioned article) and the details for the email account you wish to use. ONLYOFFICE supports both IMAP and POP protocols (which means you can also add your Gmail Account, as long as you have IMAP support turned on and an app password created)....

Wires are, after all, a bit of a pain. Doubly so in the car where you have to remember the cable and to connect it to your iPhone. Also: This is the perfect mini electric screwdriver I have good news. There is a solution: wireless CarPlay dongles. These dongles connect to the CarPlay USB port in your car and allow for a wireless connection between the iPhone and the CarPlay system....