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Today marks a major milestone, as Microsoft is the first major cloud provider to adopt the world’s first international standard for cloud privacy. It’s another reason customers can move with confidence to the Microsoft Cloud. The standard in question may seem technical, but it has important practical benefits for…
The recent Firefox attacks are an example of active in-the-wild exploitation of a serious software vulnerability.
Sick time among employees appears to follow a logarithmic distribution. You can use this to evaluate your policies and detect anomalies.
Have a look at this URL linking to this post: https://kaspars.net/blog/invisible-click-tracking Notice any tracking variables? Me neither! But check out the HTTP request and response in the network inspector of your browser -- it is redirecting to the "same" URL: URL encoded special characters in the browser console…
An Ebola whole virus vaccine, constructed using a novel experimental platform, has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the often fatal virus.
How hundreds of thousands of Filipino soldiers fought in the U.S. military and helped win World War II. And how history -- and the American government -- forgot them.
The aim of this course is to teach the basics of category theory, in a way that is accessible and relevant to computer scientists. The emphasis is on gaining a good understanding the basic definitions, examples, and techniques, so that students are equipped for further study on their own of more advanced topics if…
IBM's mainframes of the 1960s are based on an interesting technology - Standard Modular System cards or SMS cards. These cards, created in ...
When you think about it, it really is one tangled, small cottage industry. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody knows what everybody is doing, and nobody talks. One of my informants. This is the f…
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Between 2006 and 2009, senior MIRI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote several hundred essays for the blogs Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, collectively called
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Paul Simon has a song called ‘One Trick Pony’ with a bit in it that goes like this:
I finally put the team's original plan into action, launching a vote on our new roadmap site , asking our community of backers to help us choose a single license for the project.
MIRI's mission is "to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact." How can we ensure any such thing? It's a
Although the techniques described below won't be very popular nowadays (after all, why bother using C if we're going to write object-oriented code?), they are still quite relevant for embedded systems and other low-level things (kernel development, etc). For example, lots of Linux Kernel subsystems use similar…
