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From Talos, the giant bronze automaton who guarded the princess Europa in ancient Greek myths, to Cylons and Terminators, the idea of artificial humans has both fascinated and creeped us out for centuries. On our way to a cybernetic organism: living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
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Why do all those pictures make me think of a ...
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The sex robot industry will probably be quite interested in this.
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Oh, yes...
And their customers even more.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Cybersecurity researchers uncover MaliBot, a powerful new Android malware. Be careful what you download, and from where. I guess I have to stop downloading music on my phone from websites in Chinese.
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But that is the only place to get the good stuff!
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At Canva, we made the conscious decision to adopt the monorepo pattern with its benefits and drawbacks. Since the first commit in 2012, the repository has rapidly grown alongside the product in both size and traffic. I'd be somewhat intimidated on my first day of work if I cloned a repo with 60 million lines.
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Last week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. Our DDoS attacks will blot out the sun!
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The data are clear: cyberattacks have been on the rise in recent years and the cybersecurity situation is increasingly complex. Humans! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears. I knew it was them!
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Human error... I find it OK, but too generic.
Being a bit more specific:
- One part are dumb users that click on everything they get in their inbox mail folder or in dubious places of the internet
- One part are dumb so called programers that have no damned clue about security and make all possible errors in their Apps / Webs
- One part are not dumb but way too stressed programers that have not enough time / resources to do their job properly
- One part are all of us as society because we are always wanting everything without realizing that only because we can do / have one thing, it doesn't mean that we should.
On the other hand...
100% of the ciberattacks are made possible by human malignity and greed
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Purdue University is ramping up what it calls the first “comprehensive” degree program in the U.S. in semiconductor engineering as America aims to rebuild its chip industry. Good should give me plenty of time to sell my car.
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From front-end JavaScript innovations to APIs as a service, today’s major trends in tools, technologies, and the cloud make it an exciting time to be a software developer. Microservices? Where we're going we don't need microservices.
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There was very little in this article that I found exciting. Quite the opposite.
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In 1988, the anthropologist Joseph Tainter published a book called The Collapse of Complex Societies. In it, he described the rise and fall of great civilizations such as the Romans, the Mayans, and the Chacoans. His goal was to answer a question that had vexed thinkers over the centuries: why did such mighty societies collapse? Lookin at you, Dependency Injection!
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I don't know if this was Ravel's intention, but I always had the idea that technology was like Ravel's Bolero - starting with a simple tune, getting more and more complicated with each iteration, until everything comes crashing down.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Ravel's Bolero
Many years ago, that piece was described to me as the soundtrack to a CP pachyderm.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Microsoft inadvertently learned the risks of creating racist AI, but what happens if you deliberately point the intelligence at a toxic forum? One person found out. be back up news editor. find story about toxic 4chan AI. wanna make funny, 4chan-like subline. start looking at 4chan threads to get ideas. half an hour goes by. no ideas. still need to post other news. decide to write a subline about failure and shame and move onto the next news story.
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China said its giant Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of alien civilizations, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which then appeared to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery. Not sure if deleting the report makes it more likely, or less likely this is true.
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I would guess the U.S. might be considered alien to some parts of China.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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It must have been the dust under my fridge; it looked like the dust bunnies were well on their way to their own space program.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sometimes I really wish that I had not read the sci-fi novel The Three Body Problem.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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After 25+ years of helping people use and experience the web, Internet Explorer (IE) is officially retired and out of support as of today, June 15, 2022. Everyone I know goes away in the end.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Everyone I know goes away dies in the end.
FTFY
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A new side-channel attack known as Hertzbleed allows remote attackers to steal full cryptographic keys by observing variations in CPU frequency enabled by dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS). Can't wait until 2050 when all of our computers are bogged down with energy hungry security chips and processors that barely get any real work done because the security arms race demands ever increasing resources
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Starting today, Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to all Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secure major browser available across Windows, Mac and Linux. So many hands have been in my cookie jar that it will never be clean.
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