This survey of 950 IT leaders was commissioned by Red Hat to better understand the unique role of enterprise open source. Respondents were unaware that Red Hat was the sponsor of this research. Read more here.
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Future Of Work: We Can’t All Become Coders
The future of work is changing rapidly. Artificial intelligence is changing the workplace. Slowly it is displacing humans on manual tasks. More importantly, in the next decade, even some knowledge-based jobs will be replaced by innovation. This can leave people feeling unsettled. In today’s workplace, there’s a noticeable feeling of uncertainty. The reason for this unsettled feeling is that we are not all used to change. Read more here.
Subject Matter Experts
Business Needs Fewer Coders, More Software Developers.
There’s an oft-quoted line attributed to venture capitalist Marc Andreesen: “In the future, every company will become a software company.” One inference from this statement is that a wide variety of new software tools and apps will be suffused across every department as organizations become increasingly digital. The question is: Where will all this software come from? Read more here.
WTO launches revamped WTO Data portal and new API portal
The WTO launched on 7 February a revamped WTO Data portal and a new WTO API portal to improve access to its international trade statistics and other WTO-related information. The latest features on the two portals aim to make it easier to find and share WTO data. Read more here.
Web scraping is now legal
In late 2019, the US Court of Appeals denied LinkedIn’s request to prevent HiQ, an analytics company, from scraping its data. Read more here.
Google – Discovere millions of datasets on the web
Across the web, there are millions of datasets about nearly any subject that interests you. If you’re looking to buy a puppy, you could find datasets compiling complaints of puppy buyers or studies on puppy cognition. Or if you like skiing, you could find data on revenue of ski resorts or injury rates and participation numbers. Dataset Search has indexed almost 25 million of these datasets, giving you a single place to search for datasets and find links to where the data is. Over the past year, people have tried it out and provided feedback, and now Dataset Search is officially out of beta. read more here.
PGP keys, software security, and much more threatened by new SHA1 exploit
Three years ago, Ars declared the SHA1 cryptographic hash algorithm officially dead after researchers performed the world’s first known instance of a fatal exploit known as a “collision” on it. On Tuesday, the dead SHA1 horse got clobbered again as a different team of researchers unveiled a new attack that’s significantly more powerful… Read more here.
State of JavaScript: JavaScript ecosystem continues to change year after year
The JavaScript ecosystem refuses to stay still. A newly released report finds significant features and improvements are being made to the programming language every year through front end frameworks, data layers, testing, mobile devices and more. Read more here.
Python and Windows get cozier
If you ever complained that Windows was the only major operating system not to ship with Python, it’s time to stop complaining. It may not be in the installer, but it’s now an official part of Windows, as an optional feature. The third most popular language (according to analyst firm RedMonk’s regular programming language survey) has finally become a first-class citizen. read more here.
OECD – Learning for the jobs of the future
Changes in jobs we are doing means changes in the skills needed to do them.
As technological advances continue, some skills are becoming obsolete while demand for others is rising. But are those who need it most getting the training they need? Ensuring that people can successfully weather these changes and benefit fully from the promise of new technologies means helping people acquire the right skills for new jobs and ways of working at school and throughout their lives. Read more here. Download the pdf.