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De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now

2 months 1 week ago
Here come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly...

opinion  The tendency of Linux developers to reinvent wheels is no secret. It's not so much the elephant in the room, as the entire jet-propelled guided ark ship full of every known and unknown member of the Proboscidea from Ambelodon to Stegodon via deinotheres, elephants, mammoths and other mastodons.…

Liam Proven

Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales

2 months 1 week ago
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple is delaying the release of next year's version of the iPhone Air, its thinnest smartphone, after the first model sold below expectations, according to three people involved in the project. Although the length of the delay remains uncertain, the product won't be released in fall 2026 as previously planned, they said. Apple has already sharply scaled back production of the first version, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Riding The Choppy AI Datacenter Waves With Supermicro

2 months 1 week ago

There are somewhere on the order of 50,000 reasonably large companies, academic centers, and governments in the world that the enterprise IT market is like the ocean on a calm day in the doldrums. …

Riding The Choppy AI Datacenter Waves With Supermicro was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Critical federal cybersecurity funding set to resume as government shutdown draws to a close - for now

2 months 1 week ago
Resolution acquiesced to by 8 Dems includes CISA Act funding, layoff reversals, and could be easily undone

The US Senate voted on Sunday to advance a short-term funding bill for the federal government, moving the country closer to ending its longest-ever shutdown. Part of the spending bill also restores critical cybersecurity programs that lapsed as the shutdown began. …

Brandon Vigliarolo

How HR Took Over the World

2 months 1 week ago
Human-resources departments in American companies employed 1.3 million professionals in 2024, a 64% increase over ten years. Overall employment grew 14% in the same period. Professional-services and technology firms saw the number of HR workers double since 2014. Similar patterns have emerged in Australia, Britain and Germany. Chief human-resources officers also gained ground financially. Their total compensation, which stood at 40% of the average director's salary in 1992, reached 70% by 2022, according to a Stanford University study. Mary Barra, who runs General Motors, previously held the carmaker's top HR position. The expansion has followed several workplace disruptions, including the Me Too movement, the pandemic's shift to remote work, and the rise of diversity initiatives, Economist reports. Companies also faced more state regulations on employee relations and a jump in workplace complaints. The average number of discrimination or harassment allegations rose from six per 1000 employees in 2021 to 15 last year.

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