By Adam Lewis, Skills Transformation Consultant As we continue to adapt to the new norm, here are 114 new courses and projects to pick out what’s important to you. You can try out Yale’s latest insights on why your Facebook friend is wrong about the stats they’re sharing. Or find your purpose with Michigan’s course […]
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TIOBE Suddenly Ranks ‘Scratch’ as the 20th Most Popular Programming Language
Python knocked C++ out of the top 3 on TIOBE’s index of the most popular programming languages this month, while C# rose into the #5 position, overtaking Visual Basic. But the biggest surprise was when last month’s #26 most popular programming language suddenly jumped six spots into the #20 position, writes the CEO of TIOBE Software. “At first sight this…
What’s new on Coursera for Business – March 2020
By Kyle Clark, Senior Skills Transformation Consultant As our Chief Enterprise Officer Leah Belsky wrote to many of our customers last week, the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) has profoundly affected our work – and our lives. At Coursera, we’re grateful for the opportunity we have to continue to serve businesses, universities, and governments during this […]
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Attack Campaign Hits Thousands of MS-SQL Servers For Two Years
“In December, security researchers noticed an uptick in brute-force attacks against publicly exposed Microsoft SQL servers,” reports CSOnline. “It turns out the attacks go as far back as May 2018 and infect on average a couple thousand database servers every day with remote access Trojans and cryptominers.” Slashdot reader itwbennett writes:
While the primary goal of the attack seems to be cryptocurrency…
Oracle Rejects Argument That Before Suing Google, It Got Rich By Copying IBM’s SQL
Ars Technica’s senior tech reporter took a long long at Google’s reimplementation of Java in Android — and the lawsuit filed against it by Oracle in 2010. And he discovers “a possible downside” to Oracle’s stance on API copyrights.
If anyone should understand the importance of such copying, it’s Oracle. After all, Oracle got its start in the 1970s selling a…