This Week I Learned - Week #21 2023

This Week I Learned - 

* Announced at Microsoft Build:

  • All ChatGPT plugins work w/ Bing or Copilot
  • Bing is the default search experience for ChatGPT
  • Azure OpenAI Studio
  • Windows Copilot
  • Microsoft Fabric, a new platform for analytics

GitHub builds GitHub with GitHub - GitHub builds GitHub using the full range of capabilities from GitHub Copilot to GitHub Projects, from GitHub Codespaces to GitHub CodeQL.

* Microsoft Graph enables you to integrate with the best of Microsoft 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security services in Microsoft 365, using REST APIs and client libraries. 

* Password spraying is an attack that attempts to access a large number of accounts (usernames) with a few commonly used passwords. Traditional brute-force attacks attempt to gain unauthorized access to a single account by guessing the password.

* Spear phishing is a specific and targeted attack on one or a select number of victims, while regular phishing attempts to scam masses of people. In spear phishing, scammers often use social engineering and spoofed emails to target specific individuals in an organization.

* Smishing is a cyberattack which involves using fraudulent SMS texts or WhatsApp messages to trick you into giving away sensitive information.

* Polars is a dataframe library for Python that is faster than pandas. Just like Pandas, we can use polars to easily scrape websites. We can read any CSV file published on a website and even extract tables within HTML pages.

Introduction to Earth Data Science is an online textbook for anyone new to open reproducible science and the Python programming language.

Gail Evans joined Eastman Kodak as a janitor in the 1980s. By the time she left the commercial print company decades later, Evans had climbed from custodial work to production assembly to software engineer — eventually serving as its chief technology officer. Gail served executive stints at Bank of America, HP, Microsoft and Mercer. Gail Evans is currently Executive Vice President, Chief Digital and Technology Officer for Disney Parks,

* Higher paid workers are more likely to be exposed to opportunities for internal mobility and those higher paid workers also are more likely to be in industries made up of higher-paying jobs. - MIT

* The ability to navigate ambiguity and “not knowing” are in fact among the most valuable skills. Curating your career portfolio is more than professional development: It’s how you design your life. - HBR

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