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Tea and Coffee May Be Linked To Lower Risk of Stroke and

WebDrinking coffee or tea may be linked with a lower risk of stroke and dementia, according to the largest study of its kind.The Guardian reports: Strokes cause 10% of deaths globally, …

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A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your

WebEsther Schindler (16185) writes "Every team has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members. How your …

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What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov

WebAn anonymous reader writes "Soured by his attempt to acquire a quote from healthcare.gov, James Turner compiled a short list of things developers can learn from the experience: …

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Drinking Coffee May Cut Risk of Chronic Liver Disease, Study

WebAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: From espresso to instant, coffee is part of the daily routine for millions. Now research suggests the brew could be linked to …

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OpenAI Hires an Army of Contractors. Will They Make Coding

WebLast week Microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs — and a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT. But OpenAI also released a tool called …

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The Career Programmer

WebBanzaiBill writes with the review (below) of Christopher Duncan's The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World, writing "When this book came out a year ago, I …

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Brad Cox, Creator of Objective-C Programming Language, Dies At 76

WebWe have learned that Brad Cox, computer scientist known mostly for creating the Objective-C programming language with his business partner Tom Love, died on January 2, 2021 …

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IEEE Specctrum Announces Top Programming Languages of 2023: …

WebPosted by EditorDavid on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:34AM from the popularity-contest dept. Last week IEEE Spectrum released its 10th annual rankings of the Top …

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Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference

WebAn anonymous reader writes "Jacob Appelbaum, one of the security researchers who worked on the cold boot attacks to recover encryption keys from memory even after …

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Are Python Libraries Riddled With Security Holes

Web"Almost half of the packages in the official Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have at least one security issue," reports TechRadar, citing a new analysis by Finnish …

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Developers Created AI To Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are

WebAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Two developers have used OpenAI's DALL-E 2 image generation model to create a forensic sketch program that …

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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters

WebSlashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.

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MUMPS, the Programming Language For Healthcare

WebMultiply that data problem by hundreds of thousands of patients. This is the fundamental problem that the programming language MUMPS (sometimes called just "M"), or the …

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UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an

WebAn anonymous reader sends this news from El Reg: The U.K.'s National Health Service has ripped the Oracle backbone from a national patient database system and inserted …

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Oracle Sues 5 Oregon Officials For 'Improper Influence'

WebSpzToid writes: Following up on an earlier Slashdot story, the Oracle Corporation has filed a rather timely suit against five of former governor John Kitzhaber's staff for their "improper …

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Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville

WebOracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care …

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Linux Kernel Gets More Infrastructure for Rust, Increasing

WebLinux 6.1 (released last month) included what Linus Torvalds described as "initial Rust scaffolding," remembers this update from SD Times But now, "work has already been …

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Is Oracle's Database Dominance Being Eroded by Cloud-First Rivals

WebShutterfly recently moved its photo libraries to Amazon's cloud division — and became one of the companies that stopped using Oracle for it database management, Bloomberg …

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Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website …

Webitwbennett writes "Oregon is holding back $25.6 million in payments from Oracle (out of some $69.5 million Oracle claims it is owed) over work the vendor did on the state's …

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NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox …

WebFirst time accepted submitter conoviator writes "The NY Times has just published a piece providing more background on the healthcare.gov software project. One interesting …

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Creator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, Has Passed Away

WebOSNews reports: Terrence Andrew Davis, sole creator and developer of TempleOS (née LoseThos), has passed away at age 48.Davis suffered from mental illness -- …

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