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Avatarify runs on Skype and Zoom, and face-swaps your own face with a celebrity in live video calls. You mean that wasn't Elon Musk on my last call?
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As if there were not enough problems with those apps to hijack them with such "interesting and usefull" plugins 
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My concern is, if it fails it may reveal that I am actually a potato...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Version 3.0.0 of Microsoft’s implementation of the C++ Core Guidelines Support Library (GSL) is now available for you to download It's like a standard, but Microsoft scented
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Israeli researchers use vibrations from CPU, GPU, or PC chassis fans to broadcast stolen information through solid materials and to nearby receives, breaking air-gapped system protections. "I'm pickin' up good vibrations"
I'm finding myself less worried, and more irritated when an "academic" creates a "hack" where the first step is, "after installing a kernel-level driver..."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Israeli researchers use vibrations from CPU, GPU, or PC chassis fans to broadcast stolen information through solid materials and to nearby receives, breaking air-gapped system protections.
I get like this when the first step is having access to the physical device.
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Wastedtalent wrote: I get like this when the first step is having access to the physical device.
... and the next step is to use a smartphone to record the fan noise. There's a reason why, going back decades, the DoD has banned moving most electronics in/out of secure areas (with strictness going up with security levels); and the design of secure rooms includes features to preclude acoustic/electromagnetic noise from being able to escape. 
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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GitHub users are currently being targeted by a phishing campaign specifically designed to collect and steal their credentials via landing pages mimicking GitHub's login page. New rule: if they steal my GitHub account, they have to fix my bugs
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It is not that dumb... why do you need to create hijacks in webs, when you can hijack things that people download voluntarily and integrate in their own project, hijacking the apps that use it.
It is an exponential growth if you succeed with a popular project.
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In which we delve into the world of user interface design. We need to go back to the "good old days" of Windows for Workgroups
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We need to go back to the "good old days" of Windows for Workgroups
Nah - we just need a ribbon at the bottom of the screen, too.
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I'm not an Apple guy, and one day a year or so ago, out of curiosity, I played with one in the store. When I couldn't get the right-hand scroll bar to come up IN SAFARI, so I could use the mouse the old-fashioned way, I realized we've reached the heights of stupidity.
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Much of the work undertaken by artificial intelligence involves a training process known as machine learning, where AI gets better at a task such as recognising a cat or mapping a route the more it does it. "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug stock up on toilet paper."
FTFY, now this is a version I can believe.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
And yet all these warning are being ignored because they are just "fiction"...
The only consolation I have is, that it will take a big while to create a real AI. And hopefully human kind has won a bit more wisdom until that moment.
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Everyone knows that C# is a strongly typed language and incorrect type usage is simply not possible there. In case you insist on writing your IL manually
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Although Americans worry about their devices being hacked, most are happy to share their passwords. It's true - I'm sure others also use 123456 to secure everything
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Although Americans worry about their devices being hacked, most are happy to share their passwords.
Of course... if you don't want to be a victim of a break-in, then just leave your main door opened or put a copy of the key in the lock.
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The Google Card was leaked today in full color, complete with co-branding with a set of bank partners. A chance to give them more of my data? Oh, yes, please
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So their security has been breached before release.Kent Sharkey wrote: A chance to give them more of my data? Oh, yes, please
It makes perfect sense (to them).
If they know exactly how much money you've got, they can target ads at you even more precisely -- that's a big advancement, from the PoV of selling ad services
The fact that you won't buy things based on unsolicited Internet advertisements is irrelevant to them; they get paid for the ads, not for selling products.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: So their security has been breached before release.
The perfect start point...
Mark_Wallace wrote: If they know exactly how much money you've got, they can target ads at you even more precisely
They won't always know how much you have. But they will for sure know when and what you buy, and that might be even more interesting for them.
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We have all heard the phrase “What gets measured, gets managed,” often attributed to Peter Drucker—interesting note about this quote, Drucker didn’t say it. What do the KPIs say?
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ask the new one[^]
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Ah, bless you. I've been trying to find that Dilbert off and on for months.
TTFN - Kent
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You are welcome  Glad to help
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