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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Software is packaged in containers, and the containers themselves run as virtual Linux instances, but developers don’t need to know how to find and kill out-of-control processes, do a backup, install device drivers, or perform any of the other tasks that are the core of system administration. C++ first appeared in 1985.

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Mueller’s indictment of election hackers a cybersecurity ‘wake-up call’

The Parallax

The 10th count charges all defendants with conspiracy to launder more than $95,000 in cryptocurrency, earned during 2015 and 2016, with the intention of supporting illegal activity. It isn’t clear that systems administrators and elections officials are hearing the same klaxon call that Matwyshn says is sounding throughout America.

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