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And yet at the same time, we still have totally crappy speech synthesis.
Marc
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Google made its Cloud Machine Learning platform, which is used by Google Photos, Translate, and Inbox, available to developers today. There you go: teach your machines well
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The company is expected to provide details of the open-source OS at a developer conference next month Oh, good. We were running a little short on those
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I found out about this problem like a lot of you, when our builds started failing because we use the extremely helpful JSCS. More on yesterday's "LeftPad-opaclypse" (needs a better name)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "LeftPad-opaclypse" (needs a better name)
Sinister Space Shenanigans?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Through a long chain of dependencies
Which is one of the long chain of reasons that I refuse to work in Ruby on Rails. Some dependency changes, and its like watching dominoes fall over, not hitting the next domino, because of course the dependencee isn't yet up to speed with the changes made by the dependencer, so the whole abortion that is supposedly awesome -- to quote:
What’s awesome about open source is that I can go to a project like Redux or Express and peek under the hood, see that there are real people working on it, and understand their reasoning.
fails.
Reasoning? 
Insanity does not reason, and insanity is what much of the open source community is.
Marc
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"They haven't encrypted the mouse traffic, that makes it possible for the attacker to send unencrypted traffic to the dongle pretending to be a keyboard and have it result as keystrokes on your computer. This would be the same as if the attacker was sitting at your computer typing on the computer," said Newlin, a security researcher at Bastille. This is why I only type by shorting out the wires on a PS/2 cable
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AFAIK, any rodent is wireless... 
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Microsoft is finally addressing the elephant in the room in terms of security for Office users and has announced a new feature in the Office 2016 suite that will make it harder for attackers to exploit macro malware. Barn door: successfully closed!
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They removed the VBA (Visual Basic for ApplicationsAttacks) subsystem?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Now that would actually fix something. No, they probably just added another dialog that people will immediately disable, leaving them just as unprotected as before.
TTFN - Kent
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The bot is the brainchild of Microsoft’s Technology and Research and Bing teams, which created it in order to “experiment with and conduct research on conversational understanding.” Because... because... because... Nope, I'm broken. All I have is Why?
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Unfortunately their answer is either "y not" or "kos we kan".
Teaching an AI to spell badly and use slang jibberish is... er... I agree (as I said the other day)... "Why? Just Why?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Oh God. The /b/tards at 4chan have got to be soiling themselves over that fiasco.  
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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See, she is JUST like a real teenager.
Oh, my Microsoft... 
TTFN - Kent
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By way of balance, Android marketing department (not really, don't sue me) is promoting the following link, whereby there are multiple security patches, including remote vulnerabilities, for pretty well everything from Apple...
CERT[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Playing back an old december 8th 2015 message ?
...Original release date: December 08, 2015 | Last revised: December 11, 2015...
I'd rather be phishing!
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Apologies, I was looking for a story reported in the last couple of days. Evidently failed. My bad.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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And here's a better link - still can't find the news article I was referring to, but at least this is from the horse's mouth:
Apple security updates - Apple Support[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Well, I assume they have the same "base" OS security software that is applied to all their devices.
So if they update one, they update everything.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'm confused. Do Android fanbois think Apple is perfect and never issues security updates?
I have a couple Macs, an iPhone, an iPad and an Apple TV. Each get a handful of security updates each year. Some are stand-alone security updates - others are included in feature enhanced OS updates.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I'm no fanbois - simply read an Android-related security post and thought I'd balance it with a similar Apple-related post.
Personally I sit in the smugness of a WinPhone user - so few of us no one can be bothered to hack it 
(A bit like Macs back in the day)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Millions of Android phones, including the entire line of Nexus models, are vulnerable to attacks that can execute malicious code and take control of core functions almost permanently, Google officials have warned. This hack brought to you by Apple's marketing team (OK, not really. Please don't sue me, nice Apple people)
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Won't the FBI be thrilled!
Marc
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