O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time - Virgin Media O2 O2 has today unveiled the newest member of its fraud prevention team, 'Daisy'. As ‘Head of Scammer Relations’, this state-of-the-art AI Granny's mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling chat t...
Announcing Uno Platform Studio featuring Hot Design Pixel-Perfect Multi-Platform Applications with C# and WinUI for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux
Calling methods is easier and faster with C# 13 params collections - .NET Blog Let's take a look at C# 13's new params collections that make methods easier to use and allow new optimizations.
.NET 9 Gotchas! .NET 9 was just released and it has brought with it a lot of cool new performance features. Some that might do a lot of good things. Some of them might cause you a little bit of a headache.
How a Web Request turns into a Web Page in Your Browser - By a a Retired Windows Developer Dave describes the entire chain of events that happens when you enter a URL into your browser, from the DNS resolution to the GPU displaying the bits on your screen, with nothing left out of the middle! Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn...
Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs This study investigates the emerging phenomenon of "ghost hiring" or "ghost jobs", where employers advertise job openings without intending to fill them. Using a novel dataset from Glassdoor and employing a LLM-BERT technique, I find that up to 21% of job...
Joint Statement from FBI and CISA on the People's Republic of China Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure | Federal Bureau of Investigation The U.S. government's continued investigation into the People's Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure has revealed a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign.
MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.
Farewell and thank you for the continued partnership, Francois Chollet!- Google Developers Blog Today, we're announcing that Francois Chollet, the creator of Keras and a leading figure in the AI world, is embarking on a new chapter in his career outside of Google.
I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and was Charged $1,100 An interesting thing happens when you follow the official Amplify guide.
Nov 13th, 2024 - Ollama, Qwen2.5-Coder, Continue, and Rider: Your Local Copilot On November 13th, 2024, Jamie ran a short (for him anyway) stream showing off how he had leveraged Ollama, some free language models (qwen2.5-coder and llama3.2), and Continue to create a GitHub Copilot-like experience in the entire suite of JetBrains pro...
dotNetDave’s Faster or Not!: Optimizing Base64 Decoding in .NET This year, the author explored faster data processing methods using Span in .NET, specifically for converting Base64 strings to byte arrays. The article aims to assist developers in making informed…
Build hybrid apps with .NET MAUI In this session learn why you would choose a hybrid web approach to building native apps with .NET MAUI in .NET 9. Learn about Blazor hybrid and how you can build full-featured native apps for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android within a single codebase that ca...
Beyond GitHub Copilot Tips and Tricks | .NET Conf 2024 In this session April will take you beyond simple prompts with GitHub Copilot. We will look at how to build a testing suite for your .NET code and follow the journey alongside GitHub Copilot from beginning to end. We'll also explore the end to end capabil...
The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.
Secure intelligent apps with .NET 9 on App Service | .NET Conf 2024 Make secure calls to Azure OpenAI from a .NET 9 app hosted on App Service. Connect with .NET: Blog: https://aka.ms/dotnet/blog Twitter: https://aka.ms/dotnet/twitter TikTok: https://aka.ms/dotnet/tiktok Mastodon: https://aka.ms/dotnet/mastodon Linked...