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Look, No Hands!
Black Hat 2019 Google’s Project Zero drops a hand full of Zero Day vulnerabilities for the iPhone at Black Hat 2019. Apparently one of them isn’t patched yet. Interaction-less Attack Surface in this context means, it’s wormable, executing code with no human interaction.
Source: Look, No Hands! — The Remote, Interaction-less Attack Surface of the iPhone
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Unlock your product organization’s potential by defining “done”
Simplifying and aligning conversations with a definition of done All too often, the task list for your teams shared project management tool shows items like “Create Workflow” or “Define Process”. Items that do resonate well in the flow of work and in the nexus of individuals. But they do fall short of allowing the rest of the organization to grasp the meaning and even fail to do so for the reporter when some time has passed.
Some consice expressions on expectations on what this story or ticket is about can do wonder to getting things done. Rather than “defining a a workflow”, for example the product management team would
- Check for Duplicate Entries
- Describe the Requirement
- Outline all depending products
- Draw a critical path
- Align all stakeholders on the critical path
- Communicate to the team
The core idea is to eliminate any discussion about when an issue, item or story is delivered and is unique across function. Of course, the above serves as an example and will vary by team and work, and needs revision in any particular scenario. Having specific action advise will help reducing debates and focus on an actual deliverable, that is done by all opinion.
Source: Unlock your product organization’s potential by defining “done”
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#FashionID
Heute hat der Europäische Gerichtshof in einem Fall von FashionID, des Onlineshop des Modehändlers Peek & Cloppenburg, ein Urteil gesprochen. Es geht darin darum, wie mit der Weitergabe von Benutzerdaten bei der Verwendung von 3rd Party Content umgegangen werden muss. Dass der Einsatz von beispielsweise Facebook Like Buttons
Unter anderem versucht die Tagesschau aufzuklären. Weil das Urteil durch den EuGH ergangen ist und daher Konsequenzen über Deutschland hinaus haben wird, berichten auch internationale News wie Techcrunch und Yahoo(Reuters).
Simon Assion von #twobirds, Twitter-aktiver Rechtsanwalt, fasst eben dort einige Stichpunkte zu dem Urteil in einem Thread zusammen.
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Big O Notation Cheat-Sheet
Quick Context: Big O Notation describes an execution limitation of a function, given an argument tends towards a particular value. In other words, smaller values describe better execution, typically in execution time.
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Therapeutic Jira
Anyone in software development can relate.
therapist: and what do we do when we are overwhelmed?
me: create a jira ticket
therapist: no
— Hamza (@oihamza) July 25, 2019
Leave a comment what you would do!
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Apple acquiring most of Intel’s smartphone modem business in $1B deal
After Apple only recently announced to partner with Qualcom on 5G modems, Intel quickly decided to cease their efforts in that area. In that market situation, Apple likely landed a bargain on this deal.
Apple has entered into a deal to acquire a majority of Intel’s modem business, TechCrunch has learned. The deal, valued at around $1 billion, includes Intel IP, equipment, leases and employees, with Apple bringing over 2,200 new roles and bringing its portfolio up 17,000 wireless technology patents. “We’ve worked with Intel for many years and know this team shares Apple’s passion for designing technologies that deliver the world’s best experiences for our users,” Apple SVP Johny Srouji said in a release tied to the news. “Apple is excited to have so many excellent engineers join our growing cellular technologies group, and know they’ll thrive in Apple’s creative and dynamic environment.
Source: Apple acquiring most of Intel’s smartphone modem business in $1B deal
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T-Mobile received clearance to merge with Sprint
T-Mobile has received clearance from the DOJ to complete its $26.5 billion merger with Sprint (S, TMUS)
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Get started with Kubernetes (using Python)
Jason Haley wrote a brief tutorial to get the Pythonista started with Kubernetes. Worth reading if you are new to the topic.
Enable Kubernetes in Docker Desktop So, you know you want to run your application in Kubernetes but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re getting started but still don’t know what you don’t know. In this blog you’ll walk through how to containerize an application and get it running in Kubernetes.This walk-through assumes you are a developer or at least comfortable with the command line (preferably bash shell).
Source: Get started with Kubernetes (using Python) – Kubernetes
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Culture and Organizational Change
Just a small observation I made during AWS Transformation Day. While the entire theme for the event was on transforming business, the schedule had one track for “Culture and Organizational Change” alone. While Culture and Organizational Change is a broad and huge topic, but it is necessary and makes the difference for agility in rapidly changing and competitive markets. Amazon has been talking about this for years and they share their knowledge with their partners.
On an attempt to find out how organizations actually master this, the perspective most consultants and companies I talked to during the event shared with me was rather sobering. Anyone exhibiting at that event merely offered to run any software project under an agile management. No support, consultancy or even efforts to drive actual change, whatsoever, at least nothing that would exceed a traditional software project scope.
Cultural and Organizational Change is something requiring executive buy in and is killed quickly by means of exhaustive efforts to plan ahead. Culture needs to embrace the possibility to change quickly, throughout the process. And the wish for management is human, to have transparency and perspective early in the process, it is just as natural in the process for developers to stay vague for items that are not yet clear.
Any cultural change needs to embrace bi-directual communication and the ability to break down complex. On first thought this sounds easy, but requires plenty of cooperation and trust in a clearly defined team. Culture is rooted in clear understanding of roles, responsibilities and not to mention last, trust of all members.