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Trump wants to send quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way
Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030 The White House has proposed slashing NASA's budget by 24 percent, dropping it from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion. If approved, it would mark one of the agency's deepest single-year cuts in federal support, and crash its i…
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It vexes me that UI books written by current IT practitioners inevitably descend into API-call-fest—a code dump, as it were. This sort of presentation is ineffective. In fact, it is childish.
A typical #programmer in IT who designs and implements a non-trivial UI, webtop or desktop, is seasoned, experienced; he knows how to use an API. But he does not necessarily have a background in usability:
PSYCHOLOGY
• The #psychology of visual and tactile perceptions
• The psychology of human-computer interaction #HCI
• The design and administration of psychological experiments on interaction and usability
• The design of the interaction flow
LIBRARY SCIENCE
• The design of the underlying information architecture
• The design of information layout
VISUAL ARTS
• The effective use of colour
• The effective use of font
There are tonnes of other usability-related subjects that fall way outside of modern CS curricula. The #UI books should aspire to teach these cross-discipline subjects on #usability to #CS and #IT practitioners.
Sure, code samples and screenshots of some popular UI framework would be helpful. But the main thrust of these books must be usability, with the organisation that assumes tech-savvy engineers and programmers, not novices.
Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills
Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says World War Fee Meta's AI ambitions are going to cost more than expected thanks to increased competition and — who could have seen this coming? — the Trump administration's obsession with tariffs, which is driving up the price tag of key components.…
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Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is running on fumes
FOSS incubator is short a quarter of a million bucks Higher education across the USA is facing federal funding cutbacks – and and now the Oregon State University (OSU) Open Source Lab (OSL) is in trouble.…
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NATS custody battle ends with CNCF and Synadia sharing nicely
Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has reached an agreement with Synadia, the company behind open source messaging system NATS, which will see it control the trademark, domain name, and GitHub repositories.…
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Raspberry Pi slices Compute Module 4 prices
Grab more headroom with the 4 and 8 GB variants Raspberry Pi has bucked tech industry trends and cut prices for the 4 GB and 8 GB variants of its Compute Module 4.…
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Generative AI makes fraud fluent – from phishing lures to fake lovers
Real-time video deepfakes? Not convincing yet RSAC Spam messages predate the web itself, and generative AI has given it a fluency upgrade, churning out slick, localized scams and letting crooks hit regions and dialects they used to ignore.…
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Disney Slack attack wasn't Russian protesters, just a Cali dude with malware
A 25-year-old California man pleaded guilty to stealing and dumping 1.1TB of data from the House of Mouse When someone stole more than a terabyte of data from Disney last year, it was believed to be the work of Russian hacktivists protesting for artist rights. We now know it was actually a 25-year-old Calif…
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20% discount offer on Windows 365 expires around same time as Windows 10 support
Can't run Windows 11? Microsoft suggests renting it instead Microsoft has announced a price cut for Windows 365 alongside a not-so-subtle suggestion that Windows 10 users might consider taking advantage of the offer to keep security updates flowing.…
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Three Brits charged over 'active shooter threats' swattings in US, Canada
UK starts prosecution days after FBI vowed to clamp down on the crime Three young Brits are accused of stateside swatting offences and will appear in a UK court today to face their charges after a joint investigation by the FBI and Merseyside cops.…
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TikTok fined €530M after EU user data ends up on servers in China
Ireland privacy watchdog says transfers violated GDPR, as Chinese app confirms €1B datacenter in Finland Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has confirmed a fine of €530 million ($600 million) against social media biz TikTok for transferring European user data to China.…
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UK's smaller broadband operators face tough road ahead, consolidation possible
Report into alternative networks says competition with BT and co making life harder than ever Alternative network providers (altnets) are facing tough competition from the big players in the UK broadband market, with consolidation likely in the face of slowing growth in fiber internet uptake.…
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British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack
Experts suggest the obvious: There is an ongoing coordinated attack on UK retail sector Harrods, a globally recognized purveyor of all things luxury, is the third major UK retailer to confirm an attempted cyberattack on its systems in under two weeks.…
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The Telegraph jumps the gun on World War III
Trigger-happy Taiwan headline sparks instant apocalypse vibes World War III might have begun this week, according to British broadsheet The Telegraph.…
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Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone
Easy fix: Telling LLMs to cosplay Lenin makes 'em more gender blind Open source AI models are more likely to recommend men than women for jobs, particularly the high-paying ones, a new study has found.…
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China turns on ‘minors mode’ that ensures kids only see wholesome socialist content online
Content players and smartphone makers made it happen six months after regulator floated the idea China has flicked the switch on ‘Minor’s mode’, a subset of its internet in which under-18s will only see wholesome content.…
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Trio arrested in £3M UK bribery probe over Microsoft datacenter build in Netherlands
Blu-3 accused of paying off former Mace Group associates UK authorities on Wednesday arrested three individuals in connection with a multi-million-pound bribery probe tied to the construction of a Microsoft datacenter in the Netherlands.…
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Techie solved supposed software problem by waving his arms in the air
Used his loaf and found sweet solution for bakery borkage On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that each Friday serves up your stories of biting into half-baked tech support problems.…
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Siri? Will tariffs hurt Apple? Tim Cook says brace for a $900 million whack, for starters
iGiant shifted production to India and Vietnam but has no idea if that will help after tariff pause ends Apple believes the USA’s new tariffs policy will impact its finances by at least $900 million in its next quarter, has re-organized its supply chains to protect itself from whatever comes next, but can’t pred…
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