Microsoft last week said that it will pare the size of Windows 10's monthly updates once version 1809 reaches customers' PCs this fall.
“We'll be bringing a new design for quality updates to the next major versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server,” wrote Maliha Qureshi, a Microsoft program manager, in an August 16 post to a company blog. “This design creates a compact update package for easier and faster deployment.”
The next “major” versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server will each be labeled 1809 in Microsoft's yymm format, which denotes their purported month of release. Ideally, the feature upgrade for both lines will debut next month, but Microsoft's cadence usually runs a month later.
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When your job is to provide the cloud infrastructure to run analytics and workloads across three that are more than 100 miles apart datacenters, sucking 100-plus petabytes from each daily, it’s no longer an even remotely credible option to buy it from Megavendor X. These days, the only place to find such software is on an open source repository somewhere.
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Why would you want to use the Go language? Basically, it’s a concise, simple, safe, and fast compiled language with wonderful concurrency features, and it easily handles large projects. It’s also free open source, even though it was originally developed at Google.
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Microsoft last week said that it will pare the size of Windows 10's monthly updates once version 1809 reaches customers' PCs this fall.
“We'll be bringing a new design for quality updates to the next major versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server,” wrote Maliha Qureshi, a Microsoft program manager, in an August 16 post to a company blog. “This design creates a compact update package for easier and faster deployment.”
The next “major” versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server will each be labeled 1809 in Microsoft's yymm format, which denotes their purported month of release. Ideally, the feature upgrade for both lines will debut next month, but Microsoft's cadence usually runs a month later.
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Software startup is targeting banks as its customer base, so this pilot fish is sent to the initial customer to make sure everything is exactly the way the bank wants it to be.
“When not observing their processes or asking and answering questions, I sat at a big mahogany desk right in front of the bank's vault,” says fish.
“One evening well after the bank had closed, I was coding away at the desk when a guard confronted me with pistol drawn, demanding to know who I was and why I was sitting in front of the vault — which it turned out hadn't been locked, as it was supposed to be.
“A phone call later, I got to put my hands down.
“But that wasn't the last excitement in this job. A few years later, I was part of a team doing an installation at a bank in the middle of the country.
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LAS VEGAS — In cybercrime, as in most areas of crime (or business), the more things change, the more they stay the same.
The emergence of Petya/NotPetya and other virulent forms of malware have showcased how the best and most successful black-hat hacks are not entirely new—bad actors simply take older, more established approaches or attack vectors and add a new twist. And so it is with PHP unserialization attacks, as showcased at the Black Hat conference earlier this month by Sam Thomas, director of research for Secarma Ltd, an information security consultancy.
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Researchers have discovered a new subtype of multiple sclerosis (MS), providing a better understanding of the individualized nature of the disease.

Scientists have discovered the switch in plants that turns off production of terpenoids — carbon-rich compounds that play roles in plant physiology and are used by humans in everything from fragrances and flavorings to biofuels and pharmaceuticals.

A laboratory is putting chemistry to work on a simple, inexpensive way to identify falsified or substandard antibiotics, offering a practical solution to a very real problem. The researchers have created a paper-based test that can quickly determine whether an antibiotic sample is appropriate strength, or diluted with filler substances like baking soda. Similar to the mechanism of a home pregnancy test, a strip of paper turns a distinctive color if a falsified antibiotic is present.

Kids who faced daunting barriers to success in the classroom had a clear message for researchers who asked them as young adults to look back on their experiences with maltreatment, homelessness and their time in school: Adults can do better.