Author: luke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)

[ad_1] One for the traditional immortal computing demons nonetheless amongst us: COBOL, one of many first programming languages to fall into favor, however lengthy succeeded by extra environment friendly and simpler to know languages like Python, it might lastly be on its method out.What’s that? You don’t see white COBOL code anymore? Nicely, really, you do: 800 billion strains of it, the truth is. Bizarrely, that determine has really elevated from 2017, the place it stood at 220 billion. On the similar time, the variety of COBOL consultants is reducing, as a result of COBOL is previous, as are most firms…

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[ad_1] Google has warned {that a} ruling in opposition to it in an ongoing Supreme Courtroom (SC) case may put the whole web in danger by eradicating a key safety in opposition to lawsuits over content material moderation selections that contain synthetic intelligence (AI).Part 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (opens in new tab) at present presents a blanket ‘legal responsibility defend’ with regard to how firms average content material on their platforms. Nevertheless, as reported by CNN (opens in new tab), Google wrote in a authorized submitting (opens in new tab) that, ought to the SC rule in…

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[ad_1] It’s the early 2010s, and Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliviera are working nicely into the night, creating their web monitoring software program ThousandEyes of their startup’s first workplace in San Francisco. Town is vitality aware sufficient that the lights within the constructing will go off at 6pm on the dot, and it takes a telephone name and a passcode to get issues again up and operating. Oliviera has had sufficient of this, and has written a script utilizing Twilio, which presents APIs to automate telephone calls.This works for every week, till the lights flip off of their very own…

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