Facebook and Twitter announced on Monday that the companies were notified about malicious software development kits (SDKs) that allowed certain apps to collect users’ data from the apps without their permission. Paul Thurrott reports: The main culprits here are One Audience and Mobiburn, developers of the malicious SDKs that apparently paid developers to use the SDKs and secretly collect users data….
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Novartis goes ‘Big on Learning’ by Offering Employees Top Data Science Master’s Degrees on Coursera
By Leah Belsky, SVP of Enterprise, Coursera In September, we began our partnership with Novartis, a leading global medicines company, to offer its entire workforce — 108,000 employees across 140 countries — unlimited access to Coursera’s catalog of 3,600 courses. We embarked on this journey with a goal of establishing a culture of learning that […]
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Ask Slashdot: How Was the Quality of Your Academic Tech Education?
dryriver writes: In talking to people who are doing software development or other tech work, many told me that they found their tech education at university lacking in various ways. Some were taught outdated software, programming languages, methods, techniques or approaches. Others had problems with academia hostile to new ideas or creative problem solving. Some didn’t get enough recognition for the…
Coursera for Business Releases Skills Development Dashboards to Measure Learning Outcomes
By Shwetabh Mittal, Director of Enterprise Product Companies are racing to acquire skills that are fast in motion — 42 percent of the core job skills required today are predicted to change substantially by 2022. Equipping employees with critical skills is now a top-level priority, with the availability of key skills viewed as the top […]
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Microsoft Will Model the Entire Planet For ‘Breathtakingly Lifelike’ New Flight Simulator
A senior editor at the Experimental Aircraft Association tells the long and storied history of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, remembering how he’d used version 1.0 of the product “when I was about 12 years old (nearly 40 years ago)” before working on it when he was a Microsoft employee for more than 10 years, until it was cancelled in 2009. But in…
How a Self-Taught Engineer Landed a New Job in Tech
Alina is a self-taught engineer from Berlin, Germany who turned to Coursera to gain the skills and knowledge she needed to break into the tech field. Real-life projects for hands-on practice When I started on this self-teaching road, there were many online resources to choose from but I stopped at Coursera because unlike other platforms, […]
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Does The Military Need Agile Programming?
OneHundredAndTen writes: According to this Forbes article, the Pentagon is worried that many in the USA’s military nerve center claim to use Agile methods, when in fact, they aren’t. Those responsible for these things at the Pentagon have therefore come up with a Detecting Agile BS document, so people can tell when they are doing Agile vs. when they are doing…
Do Coders Crave a Sense of Control?
This week Stack Overflow’s CEO/founder Joel Spolsky spoke to Clive Thompson, the tech journalist who just published the new book Coders: the Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World . “It’s a sort of ethnographic history of this particular tribe,” explains a blog post at Stack Overflow, “examining how software developers fit into the world of business…
Linux Foundation Survey Proves Open-Source Offices Work Better
DevNull127 shares some of the key findings from The New Stack’s second annual “Open Source Programs in the Enterprise” survey, co-sponsored by VMware and in partnership with The Linux Foundation’s TODO Group: Companies with initiatives to promote open source overwhelmingly say these efforts are improving their companies’ software practices. The results [of the survey] show that proponents of free and open-source…
Exploring curiosity with Simon Brown, Chief Learning Officer at Novartis
Coursera sits down with Novartis’ Chief Learning Officer, Simon Brown, to learn how he and his team are fostering curious minds and a desire to learn across 130,000 employees in pharmaceutical and healthcare. Coursera: What drew Novartis to Coursera as a preferred learning solution? Simon: At Novartis our mission is to reimagine medicine, and we […]
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