Saturday, January 25
Daily News Stuff 25 January 2025
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- Computers were a mistake: UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates. (Tech Crunch)
That's... Rather a lot.In its data breach notice, Change Healthcare said that the cybercriminals stole names and addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and government identity documents, which included Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and passport numbers. The stolen health data also includes diagnoses, medications, test results, imaging, and care and treatment plans, as well as health insurance information . Change said the data also includes financial and banking information found in patient claims.
So, basically, everything.UnitedHealth's spokesperson said the company was "not aware of any misuse of individuals' information as a result of this incident and has not seen electronic medical record databases appear in the data during the analysis."
But did you actually look?
Tech News
- AI coding is based on a faulty premise. (PragDave)
The premise being that the hard part of developing software is writing the code.
It's not, and hasn't been since 1958.
The hard part is people.
- Walgreens blew $200 million on replacing freezer doors with smart screens showing ads. (Tech Spot)
They rarely worked properly and on some occasions reportedly caught fire.
And the fundamental idea is stupid and dystopian even if it had worked.
- The ACEMAGIC F3A is another one of those Ryzen 370 mini-PCs with socketed RAM. (Liliputing)
Starting to wonder if there's only one company making the motherboard and multiple companies providing the cases and distribution, because these all look identical.
Not bad, but identical.
Price and full specs have not yet been announced for any of these.
- Ditching Meta? Here's a list of alternatives that will probably be dead within a year. (Tech Crunch)
And will ban you in the meantime.
- The World Health Organisation is scrambling to cut costs as the US leaves and takes 18% of their budget with it. (Ars Technica)
The usual suspects are aghast.
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What happened in 1958?
Posted by: furball321 at Saturday, January 25 2025 11:20 PM (As8gg)
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I vaguely recall Richard Hamming talking about early compilers in his 'Art' book, but for whatever reason I had a feeling he talked about an earlier date.
Wiki trawl looks like maybe Lisp or Algol, or maybe something to do with ICs.
Wiki trawl looks like maybe Lisp or Algol, or maybe something to do with ICs.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, January 26 2025 02:47 AM (rcPLc)
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Nothing? Well, hardly anything(at least on HMS Pinafore).
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Sunday, January 26 2025 01:37 PM (KOtXO)
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