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DJing Without The Truckload Of Equipment; Secret Ingredient Is Raspberry Pi
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Jupiter Just Sprouted a Brand New Spot
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Windows 10 2004: Microsoft kills memory bugs behind 5% to 10% of Windows flaws | ZDNet
Microsoft introduces two new Windows APIs to help driver developers create safer software. Read more at…
Cuda on WSL2 for Deep Learning – First Impressions and Benchmarks
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Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past
The basic idea behind all nuclear power plants is the same: convert the heat created by…
Linux Marketshare Hit New High in June, Stats Show
A new month means new Linux marketshare stats from net analytics company NetMarketshare and they show…
UN reports global e-waste production soared beyond 53 million tonnes in 2019 | ZDNet
That’s equivalent to the weight of 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2.…
Companies are hiring IBM’s elite hacking team to target workers in their homes — and 3 other ways experts suggest tackling remote workers’ bad cybersecurity habits
Remote employees are often lax about cybersecurity, so companies are paying hackers to test staff, among…
Police take down encrypted criminal chat platform EncroChat | ZDNet
The UK’s ‘biggest ever’ law enforcement operation results in arrest of 746, so far. Read more…
Crystal structure discovered almost 200 years ago could hold key to solar cell revolution
Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific spotlight on materials with a…
MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs
The database also contained close-up pictures of female genitalia labeled with the C-word. Read more…
Tesla reportedly on Autopilot slams into Massachusetts state trooper – Business Insider
The driver told the state trooper at the time that the car was on autopilot, according…
Tabletop quantum experiment could detect gravitational waves
Predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, gravitational waves are ripples in space-time generated by certain…
The fastest-growing black hole in the universe devours the equivalent of one sun every damn day
A study published yesterday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for the first…
Hong Kong Police Quickly Enforce China’s Security Law as Thousands Protest
Thousands of protesters, unbowed by a new national-security law imposed by China, staged the largest show…
Programming language Python: Microsoft’s VS Code gets Pylance to ‘supercharge’ coding | ZDNet
Microsoft says its new Pylance language server will make Python developers who use VS Code far…
Human-induced climate change reversed 6,500-year global cooling trend
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Microsoft releases emergency security update to fix two bugs in Windows codecs | ZDNet
Two bugs only impact Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 distributions. Microsoft says the two security…