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How DevOps managers can learn to trust automation

May22
by on May 22, 2019 at 10:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


“It worked in staging!” says the dev team. And the ops team replies: “it must be a code issue.” Developers and ops people sometimes have different perspectives on why a deployment went wrong. Was it the code? Or the infrastructure? In the end, it’s the user that suffers, and that user doesn’t care about why your product was broken. They just want it to work, so they can do their work. It really did work in staging Everyone on the team wants to get things right the first time, deploying a quality product with every feature release. That’s why development…

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PANIC: You have until May 28 to download The Sims 4 for FREE

May22
by on May 22, 2019 at 9:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, distract, gaming


In a parallel universe, 12-year-old me is crying. Why am I crying, you ask? Because The Sims 4 is free. Yes, that’s right. Complimentary. Gratis. Ókeypis. FREE. The fourth installment of the life simulation game was launched in 2014, and six expansion packs — which allow for a wider scope of gameplay, like added actions, furniture, clothing, and more — have been released since. You have until May 28 to get yourself a copy. All you have to do is go to the Origin store and click “Download for FREE now for a limited time.” To play, you’ll also need…

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Google’s new policy update cracks down on misleading anti-abortion ads

May22
by on May 22, 2019 at 9:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google


This week, Google announced its plans to crack down on misleading advertisements from anti-abortion groups that present themselves as abortion clinics online. Google updated its “Healthcare and medicines” policy after recent allegations that it provided $150,000 in free adverts to an anti-abortion group known for running misleading ads designed to discourage women from terminating their pregnancies. starting in june, ppl looking to advertise abortion services via google search will actually be *required* to disclose if they perform the procedure; this tiny change can cut out potentially hundreds of misleading pro-life crisis center ads https://t.co/VHGEiT5LOZ — shoshana wodinsky (@swodinsky) May 20,…

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55,000 Brazilians scammed out of $200M+ worth of fake cryptocurrency

May22
by on May 22, 2019 at 9:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A Brazilian cryptocurrency crime cartel has been shut down after conning over 55,000 investors for over $200 million. The cartel ran an unlicensed financial institution without authorization from Brazil’s Central Bank. The scammers claimed to offer cryptocurrency investments and promised investors 15-percent returns on their capital, local news Correio Do Povo reports. The Federal Revenue Service said the company had managed to raise around R$850 million ($210 million) by February 2019 from would-be investors. Authorities believe the number could actually be closer to R$1 billion ($248 million), though. The illegal operation has since been dismantled following a joint operation between…

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Google stored some G Suite passwords in plaintext for 14 years

May22
by on May 22, 2019 at 8:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Google revealed that it recently discovered a bug that caused a subset of its enterprise G Suite customers to have their passwords stored in an unhashed — albeit encrypted — form for about 14 years. “This is a G Suite issue users only — no free consumer Google accounts were affected — and we are working with enterprise administrators to ensure that their users reset their passwords,” Google said in a blog post disclosing the security lapse. The internet giant failed to specify exactly how many customers were affected this way. However, it went on to stress that it didn’t find any…

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