The Insider News

Ars Technica[^]:

SCO says IBM released a "sham" version of Monterey OS to prop up AIX for Power.

Infoworld[^]:

Node.js 8 is tapped for long-term support, while Node.js 9 becomes the new current release line

Motherboard[^]:

Let this serve as a reminder that you have less control over your stuff online than it often appears.

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Sometime this summer, DellBackupandRecoveryCloudStorage.com was suddenly snatched away from a longtime Dell contractor for a month and exposed to some questionable content. More worryingly, there are signs the domain may have been pushing malware before Dell’s contractor regained control over it.

Ars Technica[^]:

Coinhive harnesses the resources of 500 million people with no questions asked.

Engadget[^]:

NVIDIA just released a paper detailing its use of a generative adversarial network (GAN) to create high-definition photos of fake humans.

The Next Web[^]:

This is truly half-brutal, half-hilarious. A Microsoft employee was forced to pause his Azure presentation in the middle of a live demo session in order to install Google’s Chrome… because the company’s own Edge browser kept crashing.

Phys.org[^]:

A new cybersecurity system developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and known as Refinable Attack INvestigation (RAIN) will provide forensic investigators a detailed record of an intrusion, even if the attackers attempted to cover their tracks.

Phys.org[^]:

To guard against unknowingly visiting malicious websites, computer users have been taught to double-check website URLs before they click on a link. But attackers are now taking advantage of that practice to trick users into visiting website domains that contain familiar trademarks—but with additional words that change the destination to an attack site.

Engadget[^]:

It could be the key to bringing ultra-fast internet access to many people.