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  • The cyber speaks for itself.

    The cyber speaks for itself: Somebody trained an AI to write a paper to predict the future of Cyber. Sources were 1000 other predictions about cyber.

    There are a lot of 2020 cybersecurity predictions. We had a bot do it for us.

    Cyberscoop

    Now, the Cyber speaks: And the result speaks for itself:

    Cyber by Erdbeernaut on Flickr, Public Domain
    Cyber speaks about cyber

    Real-time data and analytics and machine learning and AI creates unpreparedness by corporations and Big Tech companies.

    Cyber predicts Cyber

    Source: 2020 cybersecurity predictions, as told by a bot – CyberScoop

  • Animation: Visualizing Moore’s Law in Action (1971-2019)

    Moore’s Law in Action: You’ll probably remember the prediction back from your days in University. In essence, Mr. Moore, founder of Fairchild Semi and CEO of Intel, predicted the density of transistors in modern integrated systems will double about every 18 months. He was right for a long time, while many predicted the end of his law. Visual Capitalist today linked a illustration showing the law in Action up to 2019.

    Moore's Law
    Moore’s Law

    Can the predictions from Moore’s Law keep up with technological innovation spanning almost 50 years? Watch this stunning animation to find out.

    Source: Animation: Visualizing Moore’s Law in Action (1971-2019)

  • DSGVO-Verstoß: 1&1 muss knapp 10 Millionen Euro Strafe zahlen

    1&1 Firmensitz
    Firmensitz 1&1 in Montabaur

    Der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Ulrich Kelber hat gegen die Telekommunikationsfirma 1&1 ein Bußgeld in Höhe von 9,55 Millionen Euro verhängt.

    Source: DSGVO-Verstoß: 1&1 muss knapp 10 Millionen Euro Strafe zahlen | heise online

  • Kubernetes 1.17 released today – Open Source

    Kubernetes 1.17 released today
    Kubernetes Logo

    Today Kubernetes released it’s version 1.17. The software is one of the most popular open source projects ever. It allows managing containerised applications and micro-services. The release arrives at the end of a regular development cycle.

    After the project was announced in 2014 by two Google employees, it hit a first 1.0 milestone on July 2015. The project gained massive popularity in the cloud world because it enables scalable infrastructures and service. With the Kubernetes 1.0 release, Google partnered with the Linux Foundation to form the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a new home for the technology.

    Since Kubernetes became publicly available, it gained popularity quickly and today is commonly used as the main way to host microservice-based implementations, mostly because Kubernetes and its associated ecosystem provide a rich choice of tools with all the capabilities that are needed to address key concerns of any modern software architectures.

    With Kubernetes 1.17 released today, the package comes with more details on the release in the Release Schedule or in particular on the Changelog.

  • Enterprise Sales

    @r00k on Twitter nailed it

    Enterprise Sales
  • The Mind at Work: Guido van Rossum on how Python makes thinking in code easier

    Python, the programming language, gained lot’s of popularity only in the past decade. In particular for big data applications, machine learning and data science the language is almost without alternative. But also for tool development or web applications backends, Python has huge adoption. Reasons are it’s huge ecosystem and a friendly, constructive community. Despite it’s newer competitors it has been around for 30 years. One of the most appreciated benefits is the steep learning curve, that allows virtually everyone to understand Python code.

    Dropbox has an interview with Guido van Rossum, who published the first version of the language in 1989. The conversation revolves around the purpose of code and how python helps improve cooperation and productivity.

    Guido van Rossum
    Guido van Rossum

    “You primarily write your code to communicate with other coders, and, to a lesser extent, to impose your will on the computer.”

    Guido van Rossum

    A conversation with the creator of the world’s most popular programming language on removing brain friction for better work. Source: The Mind at Work: Guido van Rossum on how Python makes thinking in code easier

  • Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Speaker Series

    Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Speaker Series

    Technical University Munich Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence launches a speaker series to bring experts from all over the world to Munich and talk about Ethics and Governance for Artificial Intelligence. The Series kicks off with an Inaugural Session with Lionel P. Robert on December 13 – 10:00 am – 11:30 am.

     IEAI Speaker Series – Inaugural Session with Lionel P. Robert December 13 – 10:00 am - 11:30 am
    TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence

    With its new Speaker Series, the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence is bringing experts from all over the world to Munich to talk about Ethics and Governance of […]

    Source: IEAI Speaker Series – Inaugural Session with Lionel P. Robert – Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence

  • The possibility to understand: SaaS Product Metrics

    Colorful Rulers to Measure
    Do you measure up?

    Part of the compelling nature of SaaS Products is the possibility to understand the user and improve on the go. Any Product Manager will literally have to understand what are the use-cases for customers and how to focus on the important areas. Just recently our team led the debate which metrics would be the right ones to focus on.

    Nancy Wang, Head of Product Management at Amazon Web Services, highlights six product metrics enterprise SaaS companies should track.

    In this Article, Nancy Wang, head of Product Management at the most successful cloud service providers, shares her insights on important metrics to keep an eye on. The possibility to understand often goes overboard and requires focus.

    The case under discussion in the article revolves around paid products. Derived metrics are a foundation that serves as a blueprint to other products in the SaaS space. Goals differ, but ultimately, to make a product successful, it requires an understanding of how successful customers were, using the product. Following the established funnel pattern, users are being segmented into funnel. Along that funnel, the metrics acquired need to reflect the stage of the journey the user is on.

    At the top of the funnel, most often the interaction is anonymous and requires profiling to understand the audience coming in. Further down in the funnel, metrics capture engagement and transaction. Towards the end of the funnel, the metric needs to relate to retention.

    Source: Do You Measure Up? Metrics for Enterprise SaaS Product Managers

  • Django 3 released

    Mentionable improvements are:

    • Django 3.0 begins our journey to making Django fully async-capable by providing support for running as an ASGI application.
    • Django now officially supports MariaDB 10.1 and higher.
    • Custom enumeration types TextChoices, IntegerChoices, and Choices are now available as a way to define model field choices.

    Details are in the announcement.