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It’s Wednesday, rock stars! If you think about it, disassembling a laptop is almost like smashing a guitar…
In today’s edition:
🪟 Long live Windows 10
 Scalene, Scalene…
—Tom McKay, Billy Hurley, Patrick Lucas Austin
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Francis Scialabba
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Windows users are apparently feeling little pressure to upgrade to the newest version of Microsoft’s flagship OS; more than two-thirds remain on older editions.
According to The Register, recent data from Statcounter shows that as of Dec. 2023, two-thirds of Windows users remained on Windows 10. Only 26.5% of users had upgraded to Windows 11, while around 6% were using prior versions of Windows. (Mercifully, just 0.64% remained on Windows XP; Microsoft discontinued support for its client PC version nearly a decade ago.)
While Windows 11 usage grew by 10 percentage points year over year—adoption stood at just shy of 17% in December 2022—The Register noted a significant portion of that increase might have been due to retirement of Windows 7 hardware rather than upgrades from Windows 10. Windows 7 usage dropped from 11.2% to 3.35% from 2022 to 2023, when Microsoft dropped support for Windows 7 through 8.1.
Statcounter’s findings dovetail with separate findings by security firm Lansweeper, which estimated in May 2023 that only around 68% of Windows devices were eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 11. Lansweeper found that just 8.35% of Windows users had adopted 11 by that time.
Read more here.—TM
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DeepMind
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A tool from the University of Massachusetts Amherst uses AI to offer efficiency-minded suggestions to Python coders. Known as “Scalene,” the profiler—a kind of debugger for performance issues—has been downloaded more than 900,000 times on GitHub.
“It’s awesome in general, and amazing for an academic project,” UMass professor Emery Berger, who worked with PhD students Sam Stern and Juan Altmayer Pizzorno on the open-source tool, told IT Brew. Scalene is the first profiler to incorporate AI, according to Berger.
Profilers allow coders to understand their work’s performance problems, and which parts of the code take the longest time to execute. Scalene measures how much time and memory is spent on each line of code—both on average and at peak.
Read more here.—BH
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Francis Scialabba
Today’s top IT reads.
Stat: 70%. That’s the percentage of surveyed global business leaders who say that geopolitics has at least moderately impacted their org’s cybersecurity strategy. (VentureBeat)
Quote: “You’re dealing with an incident and you’re still knee-deep in the response four days in, you’ve identified, ‘Oh, shoot, our dumpster is on fire!’ but you haven’t even figured out what materials necessarily are in the dumpster as it’s burning—and you’ve got to start reporting.”—Elizabeth Wharton, lawyer and founder of the advisory Silver Key Strategies, on how cyber-liability stakes are changing (TechCrunch)
Read: Coming to an office near you? Here are 4 of the most eye-catching displays from CES. (Ars Technica)
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