70% can be cracked in less than a second

NordPass discovered that “123456” is the world’s worst password. Boris Zhitkov | Moment | Getty Images Racking your brains to come up with a strong password can be a pain. But if you want your emails, online banking, streaming platform credentials secure from the clutches of hackers, it would be wise to put in the … Read more

OpenAI Wants Everyone to Build Their Own Version of ChatGPT

OpenAI announced its new custom chatbot features at its first ever developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, in San Francisco. “You can build a GPT—a customized version of ChatGPT—for almost anything,” Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, said at the event. “Because they combine instructions, expanded knowledge, and actions, they can be more helpful to you.” The company said … Read more

The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contest

The index is a good predictor of whether a company will raise a round, says Konstantin Vinogradov, a general partner at Runa. Around a third of all the companies listed in the index since its launch in 2020 have raised subsequent rounds within the next 12 months, he says. Over time, metrics can invalidate themselves, … Read more

Your Project Management Software Can’t Save You

When I worked as a copywriter at a dog-toy-slash-tech company, we used Airtable and Basecamp to organize our workflows. At my next job, the marketers made us learn Asana (“same as Airtable but much better”), but the product team pushed their work and sprints through Jira. I was laid off before I had to learn … Read more

Remembering GitHub’s Workplace, a Monument to Tech Tradition

It was the spring of 2016, and I used to be within the Oval Workplace, ready to interview for a job. Solely I wasn’t in Washington, DC. I used to be on the headquarters of GitHub, a code internet hosting platform, in San Francisco, sitting inside an ideal, full-size reproduction of the workplace of the … Read more

There’s Lastly a Method to Enhance Cloud Container Registry Safety

As software program supply-chain assaults have emerged as an on a regular basis risk, the place dangerous actors poison a step within the improvement or distribution course of, the tech trade has had a wake-up name about the necessity to safe every hyperlink within the chain. However truly implementing enhancements is difficult, significantly for the … Read more