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THURSDAY, 03 APRIL 2025, 22:36
A code audit will give you a detailed summary of your software’s code quality, performance, security issues, and recommendations for improvement.
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South African insurance companies have different conditions of coverage for solar power systems, which may include expensive sign-offs by two types of engineers.
Placing all responsibility for the change in the way people access news exclusively onto Google misses the mark.
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A joint investigation found that at least five popular VPN apps on the App Store and Google Play have ties to Qihoo 360, a Chinese company with military links. Apple has since removed two of the apps but has not confirmed the status of the remaining three, which 9to5Mac notes have “racked up more than a million downloads.” The five apps in question are Turbo VPN, VPN Proxy Master, Thunder VPN,...
President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new Claude for Education tier, an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu plan. The new tier is aimed at higher education, and gives students, faculty, and other staff access to Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude, with a few additional capabilities. One piece of Claude for Education is “Learning...
The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.
Survey finds vast majority of doctors are concerned at impact of health inequalities on their patients
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