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The Twitter attack may have been executed by a 21-year-old SIM swapper, researcher says
If a 21-year-old was behind the crippling attack, Twitter has some serious explaining to do. Read…
The Big Twitter Hack Keeps Getting Stranger and Stranger
If this incident was, in fact, the result of social engineering, that’s good news. Read more…
OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images
In February of last year, the San Francisco–based research lab OpenAI announced that its AI system…
Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking
IBM’s X-Force security team obtained five hours of APT35 hacking operations, showing exactly how the group…
Translate Ancient Hieroglyphs With Google’s New AI-Powered Tool
New Arts & Culture tool Fabricius uses machine learning to translate 4,000-year-old symbols. Read more at…
MIT researchers warn that deep learning is approaching computational limits
Researchers at the Massachusetts institute of technology, Underwood international college, and the University of Brasilia found…
Microsoft Proves AI Can Realistically Sing Lyrics
The new experiment could have implications for the music industry. Read more…
Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing ‘magic instructions’ and ‘start fixing real problems’
Linus Torvalds offered up some harsh comments on one of Intel’s CPU technologies. Read more at…
High-accuracy prostate cancer pathology using deep learning
Deep learning methods can be a powerful part of digital pathology workflows, provided well-annotated training datasets…
Rust code in Linux kernel looks more likely as language team lead promises support
Torvalds worries about compiler bugs: ‘Very rare, but incredibly hard to debug’ Read more…
Microsoft: We’re pulling the plug on Windows builds of programming language PHP | ZDNet
Microsoft will no longer produce official PHP builds for Windows from PHP 8.0 onwards. Read more…
UK and Australia open joint data-privacy investigation into Clearview AI
The facial recognition company is being scrutinized over its database of 3 billion photos. Read more…
Microsoft wants to kill off Linux malware for good
Project Freta detects Linux malware for free. Read more at TechRadar…
Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like ‘blacklist’ and ‘slave’ | ZDNet
Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts stamp on proposal to use neutral language in kernel code and…
Fusion Energy Gets Ready to Shine—Finally
Three decades and $23.7 billion later, the 25,000-ton International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is close to becoming…
How to Crack SSH Private Key Passwords with John the Ripper
Secure Shell is one of the most common network protocols, typically used to manage remote machines…
Software updates bring extra torque to Bosch ebike motors
One of the occasional joys of electric vehicle ownership is that a factory software update can…
MySQL drops master-slave and blacklist-whitelist terminology | ZDNet
Engineering teams update internal terminologies all over the tech world. Latest examples include Twitter, JP Morgan,…
Rocket Lab launch fails during rocket’s second stage burn, causing a loss of vehicle and payloads – TechCrunch
Rocket Lab’s ‘Pic or it didn’t happen’ launch on Saturday ended in failure, with a total…