It is sad that once again we will be exposed to more criminals trying to steal our data. Memory encryption not only allows to secure memory from physical "cold RAM", but also prevents loss of encryption keys as it hides the content during transfer.
Why no benchmarks against pg_vector, DuckDB with extension?
For benchmarks you may just prepare Phoronix Test Suite module (https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/) to facilitate replication on a variety of machines.
Unfortunately the default configuration poses significant security problems, allowing for sidestepping 2-factor authentication schemes, and sideloading of applications without user permission (!)
While I admire social-network-friendly websites, I am afraid that performance is too bad to allow its use instead of a social network.
Indeed it is so performance sensitive, that it has blocked my region.
Would it not be better to get a static site generator from a standard Markdown posts, and thus assure it is both performant and accessible?
When policy dispute escalates to ad hominem and fund cutting arguments, it becomes clear that the presidency no longer serves the institution, but becomes a personal kingdom.
Sharing software to be tested for free seems an unalienable right of the company, and indeed many companies distribute free keys to testers.
Here author talks about taxing software that remains with the employee, as if it were "gift" or "taxable benefit" of employment, not an exercise of unalienable right to share software for testing.
Sounds more like tax office logic, instead of common sense.
Taxable benefit would occur if Microsoft bought software of others and gifted it to employee. Or if Microsoft could not reasonably expect people to actually test the software, or allowed them to resell it.
It seems like this article does not distinguish non-monetary "benefit" from employment from necessity that the company gives free license to use its software for testing.
Despite widespread knowledge that Open Access is more effective marketing of research, the ACM still clings on to non-open-access models outside of CACM.
ACM is among the few publishers in technology that still resist open access, and told to pay for it.
It is unfortunate sign that organization struggles to fulfill its mission in promotion of computing research, and is instead leaning on interests that are outside its mission statement.