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How Well Does Masking Work? And Other Pandemic Questions We Need to Answer. By Jennifer B. Nuzzo from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/61VvnmF Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Epidemics, Masks, Research

Our Covid Data Project Is Over, but the Need for Timely Data Is Not By Beth Blauer, Lauren Gardner, Sheri Lewis and Lainie Rutkow from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/gXvlBpc Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Medicine and Health, Deaths (Fatalities), Epidemics, Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns, Security and Warning Systems, Disease Rates, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biden, Joseph R Jr, United States

Scientist Looks Anew at Raccoon Dog Data, Stressing the Unknowns By Benjamin Mueller from NYT Science https://ift.tt/moJj2CP Genetics and Heredity, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Wildlife Trade and Poaching, Raccoon Dogs, Animals, Research, your-feed-science, Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns

A Towering, Terrifying Demon Horse Isn’t Even the Weirdest Part By Tiffany Hsu from NYT Business Day https://ift.tt/TMRH2ve Denver (Colo), Denver International Airport, Conspiracy Theories, Advertising and Marketing, Art, Extraterrestrial Life, Rumors and Misinformation, Content Type: Personal Profile

Press Freedom! Celebrities! (Also, the President.) By Katie Rogers from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/GdKHZRV News and News Media, United States Politics and Government, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Freedom of the Press, Comedy and Humor, Speeches and Statements, Scholarships and Fellowships, Political Prisoners, White House Correspondents Assn, Biden, Joseph R Jr, Gershkovich, Evan, Teigen, Chrissy, Delaware, Parties (Social)

M.T.A. Averts Fiscal Crisis as New York Strikes Budget Deal By Ana Ley from NYT New York https://ift.tt/FmeJdSC Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Transit Systems, New York State, New York City, Hochul, Kathleen C

Some IT departments are feeling the strain amid recent economic downturns. 2023 has already seen a disproportionately high degree of layoffs in the tech sector. As a result, there aren’t always enough software developers available to meet the demand. This has led some organizations to turn to new ways to upkeep morale and reduce burnout, […] The post Majority of Organizations Report Benefits From Low-Code Platforms appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/4ZaRtpx

Falling in Love Months Before Meeting Face to Face By Rosalie R. Radomsky from NYT Style https://ift.tt/TuIMmnF Weddings and Engagements

Codenotary today made available a preview of a centralized repository service for generating and storing software bills of materials (SBOMs) that makes it simpler to securely share them as necessary. Moshe Bar, Codenotary CEO, said SBOMCenter will make it easier for organizations to operationalize SBOMs that are being created with greater frequency as the need […] The post Codenotary Previews Secure SBOM Creation Service appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/gleXoru

U.S. Economy Continues to Grow, but More Slowly By Ben Casselman from NYT Business Day https://ift.tt/xZ5GCfU United States Economy, Gross Domestic Product, Inflation (Economics), Consumer Behavior, Recession and Depression, Interest Rates, Federal Reserve System

Device42 today made available a power and CO2 Summary Dashboard to its agentless platform that employs machine learning algorithms to discover and track IT assets. Raj Jalan, Device42 CEO, said the dashboard makes it possible for IT teams to combine the tracking of assets and associated dependencies with a capability that enables them to reduce […] The post Device42 Brings Power and Carbon Emission Tracking to IT Asset Management appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/RzuQy2C

This article is a preview of a talk by Stephan Lips for SLOconf 2023, on May 15-18, 2023. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. By managing service level objectives (SLOs) as code, we can co-locate SLO definitions and ownership with the product code and team. This supports […] The post Implementing SLOs-as-Code: A Case Study appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/X2NSeuB

China’s Search Engines Have More Than 66,000 Rules Controlling Content, Report Says By Steven Lee Myers from NYT Business Day https://ift.tt/RsKIMfv Computers and the Internet, Search Engines, Censorship, Citizen Lab, China, Microsoft Corp

Who’s to Blame for a Million Deaths? By David Wallace-Wells from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/KO9tiFJ internal-sub-only-nl, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, Shutdowns (Institutional), Masks, Medicine and Health, Viruses, Epidemics, Biden, Joseph R Jr, Fauci, Anthony S, Trump, Donald J

Life Trends: How Emerging Technologies Are Giving People Control Over Their Digital Experiences By Unknown Author from NYT T Brand https://ift.tt/o1A8pVO

A Fake Craigslist Ad Costs a New Hampshire Man His Right to Vote By Lauren McCarthy from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/wcNksrj Law and Legislation, United States Politics and Government, Fines (Penalties), Police, Voting Rights, Registration and Requirements, Craigslist, New Hampshire, Elections, State Legislature

InfluxData today made available an update to its open source time series database that can now analyze metric, event and trace data in a single datastore with unlimited cardinality in terms of how they are aggregated. The company is now making available a single-tenant instance of InfluxDB as a managed service alongside its already-existing multi-tenant […] The post InfluxData Makes Processing Observability Data at Scale More Efficient appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/2Fa0pmE

This installment of my off-and-on “Things We Should Acknowledge” series is going to focus on an area that most DevOps teams are skirting, but increasingly will not be able to: Remote work. For background, I have worked remotely for decades; my experience spans Fortune 100s, publishing companies and startups—and that’s just full-time work. I’ve worked […] The post Things We Should Acknowledge, Part Three: Remotely Good appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/ithySEl

Which Inflation Measures Matter? By Paul Krugman from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/RCSojk3 Economics (Theory and Philosophy), internal-sub-only-nl, United States Economy, Inflation (Economics), Wages and Salaries, Economic Conditions and Trends

Sendbird today added an application programming interface (API) to its low-code platform for building mobile applications that enables developers to add bots that communicate with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Shailesh Nalawadi, head of product for Sendbird, said this API makes it possible to add the ability to communicate directly with the generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform from […] The post Sendbird Adds API to Invoke ChatGPT From Mobile Apps appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/FXnTVpQ

Developer platforms and the platform teams that create them have been the center of attention for quite some time now. There have been many (wildly different) opinions about the subject, ranging from how bad the notion of a platform team is to how essential platforms are to make an organization’s DevOps journey to cloud native […] The post Platform Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/yfmOHVx

The term ‘software supply chain security’ (SSC) can be interpreted in many ways. Following the White House executive order in May 2021 and the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) of 2022, both governments and corporations are taking a more active role in ensuring their software is secure. Fundamentals such as having a software bill of […] The post DORA Report 2022: The Magnitude of Software Supply Chain Security   appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/rKAwBHv

Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History By Peter Baker from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/qIYrsEB Biden, Joseph R Jr, Presidential Election of 2024, Presidents and Presidency (US), United States Politics and Government, Democratic Party

Finding the Origin of a Pandemic Is Difficult. Preventing One Shouldn’t Be. By W. Ian Lipkin from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/ZsqkvTJ Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Wildlife Trade and Poaching, Epidemics, Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization

China Tries to Limit Damage From Diplomat’s Comments That Riled Europe By Steven Erlanger from NYT World https://ift.tt/IVpCqwc International Relations, Politics and Government, Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates, Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022), China, Baltic Region, France, USSR (Former Soviet Union)

What’s Going on With Covid Right Now? By Dana G. Smith from NYT Well https://ift.tt/cEuGBUt Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Coronavirus Omicron Variant, Vaccination and Immunization, Disease Rates, Masks, Deaths (Fatalities), Spring (Season)

For many coders, the idea of distributed systems development might seem like a dark art. They think of high-performance computing wizards crafting mysterious spells with job schedulers to work magic with hundreds of connected nodes in massively-parallel systems. Or large, distributed content delivery networks that balance resources to deliver content across the world no matter […] The post You’re Already a Distributed Developer appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/SnFXrBK

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […] The post Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/v3nMSTs

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‘Mott Street’ Chronicles 4 Generations of Chinese American Life By Dwight Garner from NYT Books https://ift.tt/A42E6kq Books and Literature, Chinese-Americans

Your Monday Briefing: Evacuations from Sudan By Amelia Nierenberg from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/f1ED2Ok AFRICA, China, Sudan, Khartoum (Sudan), Myanmar, Elections, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), International Relations, Politics and Government, Defense and Military Forces, War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Why Dead Birds Are Falling From the Sky By David Quammen from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/I2JKoDB Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Epidemics, Birds, Avian Influenza

Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story By Mara Hvistendahl and Benjamin Mueller from NYT World https://ift.tt/SdGhXNA Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Censorship, Research, Science and Technology, Academic and Scientific Journals, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Clinical Infectious Diseases (Journal), World Health Organization, Wuhan (China), Beijing (China)

Florida at Center of Debate as School Book Bans Surge Nationally By Patricia Mazzei, Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter from NYT Books https://ift.tt/K8Zb2OS Book Bans, Libraries and Librarians, State Legislatures, Education (K-12), Freedom of Speech and Expression, PEN American Center, MomsRising, DeSantis, Ron, Patterson, James, Florida

We know that continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become a DevOps best practice. And many have learned that by adding continuous testing (CT), they can create a virtuous loop, ensuring perpetual code quality and security. They’re not wrong.  Yes, testing continuously is good practice, but some incorrectly equate the concept of continuous with […] The post The Fallacy of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/tESWXvO

Two Former Peruvian Leaders Share the Same Jail. Another May Soon Join Them. By Bianca Padró Ocasio from NYT World https://ift.tt/3qpix9T Prisons and Prisoners, Politics and Government, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Bribery and Kickbacks, Odebrecht SA, Boluarte, Dina, Fujimori, Alberto K, Garcia, Alan, Toledo, Alejandro, Peru

The ‘Hot Vax Summer’ That Lived Up to Its Hype By Sadiba Hasan from NYT Style https://ift.tt/8fRYubz Weddings and Engagements, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Parties (Social)