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Exposing high-end poker cheating devices
This post exposes how real-world highly advanced poker cheating devices work.
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When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas
Usually when your laptop screen breaks you curse and just fork out the cash to get it fixed. Perhaps whilst you’re waiting for the replacement parts you plug in an external monitor. It’s annoying but it needn’t be a show stopper. But what if you’re two days bus ride from the nearest major city and you can’t trust the…
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Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Trolling in 1847
“Showing that they don’t care about me, or caring that I should know they don’t care about me, still denotes dependence.”
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Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attempts to make a machine or network unavailable by flooding it with overwhelming amounts of traffic.
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Curl-library: An alert on the upcoming 7.51.0 release
In two weeks time, on Wednesday November 2nd, we will release curl and libcurl 7.51.0 unless something earth shattering happens.
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A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture: FPGAs in Microsoft’s Datacenters
A hyperscale Configurable Cloud architecture using FPGAs to efficiently accelerate networking and applications with a distributed fabric in the data center.
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Visualizing a Job Search Or: How to Find a Job as a Software Engineer
It wouldn’t be a new job without some data porn and a blog post, would it?
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Vim: So long Pathogen, hello native package loading
Vim 8 added a native way to load third-party packages. This means, for me at least, there is no longer any need to use a third party plugin helper like Pathogen.
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Why we chose Vue.js
Why GitLab went with Vue.js
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Threat Group 4127 Targets Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign
Learn how Sophos CTU researchers tracked the activities of a Russian-based threat group targeting the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign.
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Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure
Recently, account takeovers, email hacking, and targeted phishing attacks have been all over the news. Hacks of various politicians, allegedly carried out by Russian hackers, have yielded troves of data. Despite the supposed involvement of state-sponsored agents, some hacks were not reliant on complex zero-day…
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Facial Recognition’s Threat to Privacy Is Worse Than Anyone Thought
Before all of this ever went down In another place, another town You were just a face in the crowd You were just a face in the crowd Out in the street walking around A face in the crowd -Tom Petty If we don’t speak up now, the days when we can walk around with our heads held high without fear of...
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Schiaparelli descent data: decoding underway
Essential data from the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander sent to its mothership Trace Gas Orbiter during the module's descent to the Red Planet's surface yesterday has been downlinked to Earth and is currently being analysed by experts.
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Nearly there
We’ve spent the past two weeks asking people around the world to think about our four refined design directions for the Mozilla brand identity. The results are in and the ...
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New storage classes for Google Cloud Storage
Businesses seek the best price and performance to suit the storage needs of workloads ranging from multimedia serving, to data analytics and machine learning, to data backup/archiving, all of which drive demand for a variety of storage options. At Google, we aim to build a powerful cloud platform that can meet the…
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.NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio “15”
This post was co-authored by David Carmona, a Principal Program Manager Lead in .NET Team and Joe Morris, a Senior Program Manager in .NET Team. Couple of weeks back, we dedicated a blog post introducing .NET Standard 2.0, which will significantly extend your ability to share code by unifying .NET APIs across all…
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SpaCy v1.0: Deep Learning with custom pipelines and Keras
I'm pleased to announce the 1.0 release of spaCy, the fastest NLP library in the world. By far the best part of the 1.0 release is a new system for integrating custom models into spaCy. This post introduces you to the changes, and shows you how to use the new custom pipeline functionality to add a Keras-powered LSTM…