Happy Tuesday! Yesterday felt like a super long day. Did anyone else feel the same? Here’s to hoping the longer days bring great fruits and complete to-do lists!
In This Issue: Embracing Fall, Softball Triumphs & a Dash of Early Christmas Cheer | Cisco DB9 Female to RJ45 Female Console Adapter | FAQ: What is LCP (Link Control Protocol) | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Embracing Fall, Softball Triumphs & a Dash of Early Christmas Cheer
Good Morning & Happy Tuesday! Hope everyone is off to a great start to the week! It feels like the past few weeks have been so busy and have just flown by! I’m definitely finding myself feeling a bit more exhausted than usual. Unlike Cris, I despise the Fall time change and the shorter days, but looking for a silver lining here so I’m hoping maybe I’ll get a bit more sleep with it getting dark earlier!
We had a fun weekend around here. On Saturday I went to watch one of my best friends’ daughter play in a softball tournament and they did great! They ended up winning the tournament for their bracket which is awesome. I also went ahead and started decorating for Christmas. I know it’s early, but this has been one heck of a year and I need some joy and twinkling lights in my life! 😉
Hope everyone has a great week!
Rebecca
Product Spotlights & Updates
Working in IT, you know how important it is to have flexible solutions to everyday problems. That includes using modular adapters as a cost-effective solution for completing complex connections. This Cisco adapter is a straight-through DB9 Female to RJ45 Female, perfect for connecting desktop terminals back to a central patch panel. You never know when hooking up one of these devices might require an adaptor.
Learning Center Article – FAQ: What is LCP (Link Control Protocol)
As you peel back layers and get deeper into networking and theory, you have to learn about protocols. There are a lot of protocols out there. Each is designed with specific ideas in mind, and ultimately, the internet uses pretty much all of them at one point or another.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- In a world first, artificial intelligence demonstrated the ability to negotiate a contract autonomously with another artificial intelligence without any human involvement. At Luminance’s London headquarters, the company demonstrated its AI, called Autopilot, negotiating a non-disclosure agreement in a matter of minutes. It marks the first time an AI has ever negotiated a contract with another AI, with no human involved.
- Office-sharing company WeWork filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court on Monday.
- Stellantis plans to produce an industry-first pickup for its Ram Trucks brand that’s equipped with an onboard gas engine and electric generator.
- OpenAI announced its new, more powerful GPT-4 Turbo artificial intelligence model during its first in-person event. It revealed a new option that will let developers create custom versions of its viral ChatGPT chatbot.