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State-sponsored Russian hackers are actively seeking to hijack essential internet hardware, US and UK intelligence agencies say. In Mother Russia, routers rout you?
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Is this the joint announcement from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious and the Ministry of the Self-Evident?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Dolby Laboratories chief scientist Poppy Crum tells of a fast-coming time when technology will see right through people no matter how hard they try to hide their feelings. "Can't read my, can't read my... No he can't read my poker face"
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Xamarin (and before that, Mono) allowed .NET code to run on multiple platforms for years. These days, there’s a new push in cross-platform with .NET Core and .NET Standard. This post looks at the history of code sharing in .NET and where cross-platform .NET is going with Core and Standard. "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
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Hackers are leveraging an IIS 6.0 vulnerability to take over Windows servers and install a malware strain that mines the Electroneum cryptocurrency. People do actually use WebDAV? Wow, learn something new every day.
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Hackers are increasingly targeting "internet of things" devices to access corporate systems, using things like CCTV cameras or air-conditioning units, according to the CEO of a cybersecurity firm. Interesting crossover between the Ocean's Eleven and Finding Nemo movies
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"They then found the high-roller database and then pulled that back across the network, out the thermostat, and up to the cloud."
Go fish.
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As in the opening scene of "Lost in Space".
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Google Research is giving us a (fun) glimpse of how far natural language processing in artificial intelligence has come “A good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk”
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One of my favorite science fiction novels is Roadmarks[^] by Roger Zelazny. It features two books as speaking characters: Leaves of Grass[^], a collection of poetry by Walt Whitman, and Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil)[^], a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. Both books are the physical embodiment of an artificial intelligence.
Software Zen: delete this;
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A large number of Android manufacturers (OEMs) are skipping security patches but are lying to users about it. Phoning it in
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Researchers have successfully trained artificial intelligence to generate new clips of the prehistoric animated series based on nothing but random text descriptions of what’s happening in a scene. "Yabba dabba doo!"
Maybe I'll be able to get those new episodes of The Herculoids I've been waiting for.
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Did you know that people in Dubai don't watch the Flintstones, while those in Abu Dhabi do.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 16-Apr-18 8:04am.
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But seeing an AI generate a cartoon, featuring iconic characters, all by itself, is a fascinating sneak peek at how some films and TV shows might be made one day.
Or senate hearings?
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Transporting yourself into a video game, body and all, just got easier. Artificial intelligence has been used to create 3D models of people’s bodies for virtual reality avatars, surveillance, visualizing fashion, or movies. I'm sure a certain film industry will never use this inappropriately
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A businessman fighting for the "right to be forgotten" has won a UK High Court action against Google. Maybe they should sit more?
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In my opinion, this really isn't Google's problem. The problem lies with those who retain the data. Obviously, with Google's caching of sites that is data retention, but if the data is on some site somewhere how is Google at fault for finding it? I don't get that part.
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Over the last several years I have paired with people learning Functional Programming who have expressed an anti-OO bias. This usually comes in the form of statements like: “Oh, that’s too much like an Object.” FWIW
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Sitting too much is not just hazardous for your heart and waistline — it may also harm the brain. I sat long enough to forget this study
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Time for a memory upgrade.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I was to answer but I forgot what I was about to say. Time for a walk it seems.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yet, I wasn't sitting when I forgot to turn on the dishwasher last night.
(another case where the headline is belied by the contents:
"...the researchers just assessed participants at one point in time, they can't be sure that the brain thinning was caused by sedentary behavior..."
And the conclusion makes no sense:
"...the amount of exercise study participants got didn't seem to have a significant effect on MTL thickness. But sedentary behavior did."
Beyond the cause/effect confusion, if the MTL can only thin and do so in a relatively short period of time, we're all doomed. Or the "study" is missing something.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Or the "study" is missing something Sense?
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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Remote working may not be as ideal as previously thought for some workers. Didn't I just post about how great remote working was?
Did the nutrition people take over studying business now? This week, coffee, alcohol, and remote work is if((rnd.Next() % 2) == 0) {return "good";} else {return "not good";}
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Quote: A new research report from Citrix has found that remote working may actually hurt productivity and often makes employees feel disconnected, lonely, and not having access to all the right and necessary technology to get the work done on time, and in proper fashion.
And let me guess, that report recommends trebbling your IT budget and spending 80% of the new total on Citrix stuff to fix the problem.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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