The development community has witnessed the emergence of new coding paradigms and approaches that have had a seismic change to how they work over the past thirty years. The mainstreaming of object-oriented programming in the early 1990s and the emergence of multi-core programming and web2 in the late 2000s are a few cases in point. More recently, Covid-19 has turned the development world on its head, forcing teams to adapt to a brave new distributed world. As we enter the second year of the pandemic, it is increasingly clear that these changes aren't going to be a temporal blip but rather may just stay with us for the foreseeable future.
Security agencies both in the UK and USA are warning the general public to be alert of malicious Quick Response (QR) codes. Cybercriminals are tampering with QR codes to redirect victims to malicious sites that steal login and financial information.
Embracing new technology is what we humans do. We have come a long way from creating fire with the help of some flint and friction ( the latter a physical process we've now become accustomed to in a subject matter called physics). So when you hear people labelling someone technophobe because they genuinely feel social media is causing more harm than good. Be very careful and cautious of snake oil salesmen.
Multimodal Search Requires Entirely New Input From Users. This is the news coming from Google at its recent "Search On Event". One overriding theme from the event was "context is king". Yes, I know you have heard it before somewhere - the web "Content is King".
Microsoft is spreading the word about a phishing campaign that's been going on for months.
It utilizes open redirector links which in the main helps for URL shortening.