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A wonderful comment at @medium from @drrayhealey about my new story there on seven parenting strategies of Bill Gates' mother:

"I worked at Forbes magazine for 17 years and read a lot about Gates, but your story was a revelation."

Writers live for comments like that!

#Tech #Medium #Books #Technology #Parenting #Microsoft #BillGates

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Bill Gates and his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates
Medium · How Bill Gates’ Mother Helped Her Geeky Son ThriveShe took a hard line on wrinkled shirts and uncombed hair with the future co-founder of Microsoft

Ars Technica: GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down. “…it looks like GitHub will be more fully folded into Microsoft’s organizational chart starting next year—GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced today that he would be leaving GitHub and Microsoft ‘to become a founder again.’”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/ars-technica-github-will-be-folded-into-microsoft-proper-as-ceo-steps-down/

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Me está haciendo mucha falta un shortcut en #wordpress para aplicar el formato de "inline code" en mis artículos... eso de seleccionar con el mouse y dar clic dos clics para aplicarlo es muy lento, tanto que me hace acordar a productos de #microsoft 😆

Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flaw

The flaw allows any remote users to read sensitive files, including system configuration files and even OpenAI or Gemini API keys. What’s worse is that it’s a classic path traversal flaw, meaning it’s as easy to exploit as visiting a malformed URL.

#microsoft #NLWeb #artificialintelligence #AI #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking

theverge.com/news/719617/micro

Vector illustration of the Microsoft logo.
The Verge · Microsoft’s plan to fix the web with AI has already hit an embarrassing security flawBy Tom Warren

Azure App Testing: Zentrale Plattform für Last- und Funktionstests in der Cloud

Azure App Testing vereint Microsofts Dienste für Last- und Webtests. Es skaliert automatisch und bietet KI-gestützte Analyse für plattformübergreifende Tests.

heise.de/news/Azure-App-Testin

heise online · Azure App Testing: Zentrale Plattform für Last- und Funktionstests in der CloudBy Moritz Förster
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@Lydie

That's great, but do you see how it sounds to people outside the #Windows world? Your operating system vendor has gradually become your adversary. One way or another, you still end up dancing to #Microsoft's tune.

Your computer shouldn't be a tool for wringing money and data out of you. You shouldn't need to trick your OS vendor in order to get security updates. That's not a healthy relationship.

I acknowledge that I'm in an equally unhealthy relationship myself, because I'm writing this on an Android phone and using Blokada to shelter from surveillance and advertising. I'm not criticising you: I'm bemoaning the state of the major consumer operating systems at the moment.

Windows 11 : un test montre que l'IA Microsoft Recall est toujours capable d'enregistrer cartes bancaires, mots de passe et données sensibles malgré le paramètre « Filtrer les informations sensibles » activé

microsoft.developpez.com/actu/

PASSEZ A LINUX !

J'utilise depuis très longtemps Linux MInt en version Mate et j'en suis toujours très content !

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