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A Gentle Introduction To Ncurses For The Terminally Impatient
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/a-gentle-introduction-to-ncurses-for-the-terminally-impatient/

A Gentle Introduction To Ncurses For The Terminally Impatient
Considered by many to be just a dull output for sequential text, the command-line terminal is a veritable canvas to the creative software developer. With the cursor as the brush, entire graphical u…

»What Does That Server Really Serve?
How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.
[…] Software as a service always subjects you to the power of the server operator, and the only remedy is to avoid it. […]«
Yes, we are living in the future, fifteen years ago. But even back then, those who looked into the future were labeled as paranoid crackpots and negative propagandists, but they were right.
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May 2025 recap | The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, hosted by PCSS, brought together developers and experts from across Europe to explore generative #AI tools, risks, secure coding practices.
Highlights:
🔹#GenAI Buzz-Free Programming with LLMs – training by Maciej Łabędzki…

Responsible AI in Practice: Shaping a Safer Future for AI-Powered Software Development | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Poznań, 20–22 May 2025 — The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, held at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), brought together top-tier developers and experts from across Europe for a deep-dive into generative AI tools, risks, and secure coding practices. At the core of the event was the acclaimed training

Despite what many purchasing departments think, software developers are not fungible assets.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alsutton_im

I'm always puzzled as to why many purchasing departments don't understand that software engineers are not fungible assets. | Al Sutton
I'm always puzzled as to why many purchasing departments don't understand that software engineers are not fungible assets. The term "fungible asset" is something I first came across when Simon Stewart was giving a talk during my boot-camp induction when we were both at Facebook. A fungible asset is something you can swap for an equivalent with no detrimental effect, and software engineers definitely aren't trivially swappable. You can swap one 10 euro note for another because they're fungible…

As the week's cyber news continues to heat up, check out today's Metacurity before you fall behind on the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market,
--Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims,
--Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector,
--Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China,
--$10m reward for Cybe…

Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market
Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims, Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector, Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China, $10m reward for CyberAv3ngers hackers, WhatsApp ads worry privacy experts, Yes24 apologizes for attack, much more

Our slides for 'The Universal Viewer: radically inclusive software development for digital cultural heritage' for #DH2025 are available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16040930

Sources: Microsoft is prepared to walk away from high-stakes talks with OpenAI if they cannot agree on critical issues, such as the size of Microsoft's stake (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/072e90fe-1c8c-415c-8024-5996b1ebb3cb

Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks
ChatGPT maker’s plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans

Where Projects are Evaluated – To see if they're as free and open source as advertised
The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.
🧑‍💻 https://isitreallyfoss.com

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/did-the-qantas-hackers-use-ai-voice-deepfakes-.html
Experts say it is “highly plausible” cybercriminals used AI-based voice deepfakes to trick Qantas contact centre staff in Manila into providing access to t…

Did the Qantas hackers use AI voice deepfakes?
Fingers pointed at Scattered Spider cybercrime group.