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Microsoft reverses its reversal on blocking Office macros by default

July 11, 2022August 10, 2022 Carly Page 216 Viewscomputing, finance, HP, Internal Revenue Service, Java, macro, malware, Microsoft, microsoft word, Microsoft-Office, social media, Software, source code 2 min read

Microsoft said it is still planning to block Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros by default in Office apps after quietly rolling back the planned change last month. VBA Macros are lines of code that allow users to automate routine processes — like data collection or running certain tasks — in Microsoft Office applications. While this […]

Axio lands $23M to help companies quantify cyber risk

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Databricks launches Project Lightspeed, its next-gen Spark streaming engine

June 28, 2022August 10, 2022 Frederic Lardinois 302 ViewsApache Spark, api, computing, Databricks, free software, Java, machine learning, programming languages, Python, Scala, spark 1 min read

At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks today made the requisite number of announcements one would expect from a company’s flagship developer event. Among those are the launch of Delta Lake 2.0, the next version of its platform for building data lakehouses, MLflow 2.0, the next generation of its platform for managing the machine learning […]

Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool

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Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool

June 23, 2022August 10, 2022 Frederic Lardinois 275 ViewsAmazon, Amazon Web Services, artificial intelligence, AWS, aws lambda, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, codewhisperer, computing, DevOps Guru, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, IDEs, Java, Javascript, Python, remars 2022, technology, Visual Studio Code, web hosting 6 min read

At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete entire functions based on only a comment or a few keystrokes. The company trained the system, which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python, on billions of lines of publicly available open source […]

Study: 30% of Log4Shell instances remain unpatched

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Study: 30% of Log4Shell instances remain unpatched

March 18, 2022August 10, 2022 Ram Iyer 254 ViewsAsset Management, computer security, computing, cyberattack, Cyberwarfare, EC Column, EC Cybersecurity, Java, linux, Log4j, Log4Shell, ransomware, vulnerability, Web applications, web apps 1 min read

Considering recent APT41 attacks, organizations that continue to leave the Log4Shell flaw unaddressed are hitting the snooze button when it comes to the wake-up calls from attackers.