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Jalen Green made two free throws with 3.5 seconds left and the Houston Rockets beat the Golden State Warriors 91-90 on Wednesday night to advance to the NBA Cup semifinals in Las Vegas.Houston snapped a 15-game skid against the Warriors, winning for the first time in the series since Feb. 20, 2020. The Rockets will face Oklahoma City, which beat Dallas in the other West quarterfinal game on Tuesday night, in the semifinals on Saturday.Alperen Sengun led the Rockets with 26 points and 11 rebounds and Jabari Smith Jr. added 15 points.Houston led by 14 before falling behind late to…

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Python is headed toward a likely win of programming language of the year 2024, TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen predicted in the TIOBE Programming Community Index in December. According to the updated rankings: Python grew in popularity from 22.85% in the proprietary ranking system in November to 23.84% in December. In second, C++ rose from 10.64% in November to 10.82% in December, perhaps a sign of recovery after a long slide in popularity starting in February. In third, Java slightly grew in popularity from 9.6% to 9.72%. The TIOBE Programming Community Index shows trends in programming languages based on search engine…

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If you administer a Linux server, you likely will have to create users and groups. You will be limited in a few crucial ways without knowing how to create users. First off, new users cannot be added to a system. Second, you might have to create a user to install a piece of software. As for groups, beyond having to create groups for the successful installation of certain software, this is a great way to control user permissions for directories. Chances are you will also have to do this from the command line. Because of the necessity of this task,…

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December brought a relatively mild Patch Tuesday, with one vulnerability having been actively exploited. Of all 70 vulnerabilities fixed, 16 were classified as critical. “This year, cybersecurity professionals must be on Santa’s nice list, or, at the very least, Microsoft’s,” Tyler Reguly, associate director of security R&D at cybersecurity software and services company Fortra, told TechRepublic in an email. Microsoft patches leaky CLFS CVE-2024-49138 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver. The driver is a key element of Windows used to write transaction logs. Misuse of the driver, specifically through improper bounds…

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Network Address Translation (NAT) is one of the key technological concepts behind the performance of communication networks and the internet at large. NAT is a mechanism for converting private (local) IP addresses into public (global) IP addresses and vice versa. There are six main NAT types: static, dynamic, port address translation, overlapping, and masquerade. Understanding the functionality of each NAT type — as well as its purpose — is vital in helping you choose the right one to reap the most benefits. 1 CloudTalk Employees per Company Size Micro (0-49), Small (50-249), Medium (250-999), Large (1,000-4,999), Enterprise (5,000+) Any Company…

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Traveling for work or working remotely often means juggling priorities and finding ways to stay productive while protecting your most valuable gear. Lugging an expensive desktop or high-end laptop around isn’t always practical—or safe. That’s why it’s so useful to have something like this $75 HP Chromebook 11. This compact computer would normally cost $239, but now you can get a reliable, low-risk machine for under $100. Head to TechRepublic Academy to grab this offer. Under the hood This refurbished Chromebook offers enough power to handle email, web browsing, video calls, and basic productivity tasks. It’s equipped with an Intel…

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Almost a dozen regions in Russia are getting set to offer a cash payment to young women who give birth, Russian outlets are reporting, but there’s a pretty big catch. According to the Moscow Times, monetary childbirth incentives will be offered in at least 11 Russian regions and will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025. If a young woman successfully carries the child to term, they will be paid 100,000 rubles, or approximately C$1,300.The bonuses, which were first announced in a handful of regions in the summer, come with strict criteria. While it varies by region, all require the…

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South Korea’s previous defense minister was stopped from attempting suicide while in detention over last week’s martial law declaration, officials said Wednesday, as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office resisted a police attempt to search the compound. The main liberal opposition Democratic Party is pushing for a new motion to impeach Yoon for his Dec. 3 decree that imposed martial law in South Korea for the first time in more than four decades.Its first impeachment attempt against Yoon last Saturday failed after ruling party lawmakers boycotted the vote. The party said it plans to submit the new motion on Thursday to…

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A 19-year-old high school student, she fled to Winnipeg in 2017 to escape the ISIS gunmen who stormed into northern Iraq and forced women and girls into sexual slavery.She thought she was safe in the Manitoba capital, and then last summer, she allegedly became the victim of sexual assault at the hands of a leader of her own community.The man accused of repeatedly trying to force himself on her behind closed doors in a darkened room, Hadji Hesso, is the executive director of the Yazidi Association of Manitoba.Hesso has rubbed shoulders with federal cabinet ministers and MPs, and attended an…

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