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Developers spend 17 hours a week on security — but don’t consider it a top priority
Three quarters of developers spend more than 17 hours a week on security-related tasks — and one in four spends more than 25 hours each week. That’s according to a survey of 1,500 development heads, platform engineers and software engineers by security firm Checkmarx. Despite security’s heavy impact on workloads for developers, just 21% said that security is their top…
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‘Digital hide-and-seek’: Workers are wasting hundreds of hours a year sourcing the information they need to carry out their role
Knowledge workers globally are wasting a quarter of their working week tracking down information, new research from Atlassian has revealed. UK workers specifically waste an average of 9 hours a week locating the information they need to do their work, accounting for hundreds of hours annually and inflicting significant strain on teams. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of UK employees said workloads…
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Be in the office every weekday, work 60 hours a week – Computerworld
Google co-founder Sergey Brin sent an internal message Wednesday to the group working on the company’s AI model Gemini. In the message, Brin wrote that Google can become a leader in AI development — provided that employees work more. “I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Brin said in a message quoted by The New York Times.…
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Clunky tech means public sector staff work 30 million hours extra each year
UK public sector staff are working an average of five hours a week more than they should thanks to inefficiencies in service delivery, new research shows. Appian’s 2025 UK Public Sector Efficiency Survey revealed that virtually all complained of extra work or delays. Extrapolated across the UK’s 6.12 million public sector workforce, this adds up to 30.6 million hours of…
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Elon Musk claims federal employees have 48 hours to explain recent work or resign
Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that federal workers would soon get an email “requesting to understand what they got done last week.” According to the New York Times, the email from the Office of Personnel Management went to agencies across the federal government that afternoon, including the FBI, State Department, and others, with a deadline for response by 11:59PM ET on…
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Why YouTube Is Showing You Hours of Unskippable Ads
Google has been taking its crusade against adblockers to a whole new level lately, so if you’ve started getting unskippable multi-hour ads on YouTube, that might be why. Over the past week, Redditors have been sharing screenshots showing that they’ve been served ads with runtimes as long as three hours, with no skip button in sight—and that’s to watch videos…
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WordPress developer hours cutback may or may not slow innovation – Computerworld
“Automatticians who contributed to core will instead focus on for-profit projects within Automattic, such as WordPress.com, Pressable, WPVIP, Jetpack, and WooCommerce,” the statement said. “As part of this reset, Automattic will match its volunteering pledge to those made by WP Engine and other players in the ecosystem, or about 45 hours a week that qualify under the Five For the…
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Now, you can create a digital copy of your personality in just two hours – Computerworld
Researchers at Google Deepmind and Stanford University have concluded that a two-hour interview is sufficient to create a realistic AI copy with the same personality as the interviewee. In an experiment, 1,052 people were interviewed using a questionnaire that addressed everything from personal life events to opinions about society. A digital AI copy was then created and when a new round of…
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Cynthia Erivo got just three hours sleep a night filming ‘Wicked’ — here’s how to manage your sleep during a busy period
Cynthia Erivo has admitted to getting just “two or three hours” sleep a night while filming ‘Wicked’, during a Q&A at the Academy Museum (via People). This shortened sleep schedule allowed her to fit in a two hour workout, plus another two hours in the makeup chair, before making her 5am call time. Erivo described the filming process as depleting…
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Cloudflare says it lost 55% of logs pushed to customers for 3.5 hours
Internet security giant Cloudflare announced that it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug in the log collection service on November 14, 2024. Cloudflare offers an extensive logging service to customers that allows them to monitor the traffic on their site and filter that traffic based on certain criteria. These logs…
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