Latest Atlassian Confluence Flaw Exploited to Breach Jenkins Project Server

The maintainers of Jenkins—a popular open-source automation server software—have disclosed a security breach after unidentified threat actors gained access to one of their servers by exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence service to install a cryptocurrency miner. The “successful attack,” which is believed to have occurred last week, was mounted against its Confluence…

Qualcomm will reportedly continue helping Huawei to skirt US sanctions with 5G-less chips

A tipster claims that Qualcomm will offer more 5G-less versions of its chips that enable Huawei to skirt US sanctions. Huawei is among the Chinese companies sanctioned by the US. The sanctions predominately stop Huawei from accessing American products relating to 5G and limit the company’s ability to make its own Kirin silicon. Qualcomm’s latest…

Are Software Engineers Burned Out?

Peggy and Junade Ali, consultant, Haystack Analytics, talk about road traffic safety and the potential burnout of software engineers. He shares his journey with road traffic sensor networks and behavioral interventions for drivers—and how he built an engineering team. Below is an excerpt from the interview. To hear the entire interview on The Peggy Smedley…

The best laptops under $500 in 2021

The best laptops under $500 are like diamonds in the rough right now, as there isn’t a vast selection of high-quality, well-made laptops available to purchase in that price range. The recent pandemic hasn’t helped, but hopefully as the year goes on we’ll see some more bargain notebooks hitting the market, especially when it comes…