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A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X
Trustwave recently reported a locally exploitable issue in the Skype Desktop API Mac OS-X which provides an API to local programs/plugins executing on the local machine. The API is formally known as...
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Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way
I love to teach, even though I am no expert. I learn every day and I have the fortune to have great mentors. After all not everyone has the opportunity to learn from mentors and peers. The book is my...
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AirPods are now available
Pricing and AvailabilityApple-Designed Wireless AirPodsIncluding charging case for $159 (US). Available today from Apple.com and will start delivering to customers and arriving at Apple Stores, Apple...
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Finding surprising moves in chess games
README.mdThe -What The Hell- MomentWhen looking at specific chess games from grandmasters there sometimes comes a point in the game where a lot of people wonder about a horrible looking move (mostly a...
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AMD Gives More Zen Details
In the eternal battle to drive more details out of AMD ahead of the full launch of its new Zen microarchitecture based CPUs, today AMD is lifting the lid on some new features in order to whet the...
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Sharing National Security Letters with the Public
In our continued effort to increase transparency around government demands for user data, today we begin to make available to the public the National Security Letters (NSLs) we have received where,...
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Neurogenesis Deep Learning
(Submitted on 12 Dec 2016)Abstract: Neural machine learning methods, such as deep neural networks (DNN), have achieved remarkable success in a number of complex data processing tasks. These methods...
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One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers
If you live in an economy where officials are corrupt, contracts are hard to enforce, and trust is scarce, everyday transactions are burdensome and time-consuming. If you don’t want to get scammed, you...
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Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco
Uber has been ordered by state regulators to stop using self-driving cars in California, according to the Associated Press, at least until it secures the necessary permit issued by the state to allow...
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Visual Studio Code 1.8
Welcome to the November release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:The release notes are...
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Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
Wed Oct 5, 2016 Yesterday morning, Reuters dropped a news story revealing that Yahoo installed a backdoor on their own infrastructure in 2015 in compliance with a secret order from either the FBI or...
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Metro areas suffering from brain drain or benefiting from brain concentration
The industrial city of Cumberland, Maryland, tucked in the Appalachians, illustrates the economic despair that helped Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency -- as well as efforts to alleviate...
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Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras
In the summer of 2013, when documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras was shooting a still-secret NSA leaker named Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room, she took security seriously. She’d periodically...
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I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years
So there I was, implementing a one element ring buffer. Which, I'm sure you'll agree, is a perfectly reasonable data structure. It was just surprisingly annoying to write, due to reasons we'll get to...
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2017 Solar Eclipse Path of Totality
Sun Planets and Moons ID: 4515 Visualizations by on December 13, 2016During the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse, the Moon's umbral shadow will fly across the United States, from Oregon to South...
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Letter to a Peer Reviewer Who Stole and Published Our Manuscript as His Own
I am aware that you recently admitted to wrongly publishing, as your own, a scientific research paper that I had submitted to Annals of Internal Medicine. After serving as an external peer reviewer on...
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LLVM's New Versioning Scheme
Historically, LLVM's major releases always added "0.1" to the version number, producing major versions like 3.8, 3.9, and 4.0 (expected by March 2017). With our next release though, we're changing...
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What Kubernetes users should know about the rkt container engine
Since the release of rkt 1.0 at the beginning of this year, the project has powered ahead with over 20 new stable versions on a regular release cycle. The goal of rkt has always been to provide a...
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Wells Fargo’s ‘Living Will’ Plan Is Rejected Again by Regulators
PhotoWells Fargo’s headquarters in San Francisco. The Credit Max Whittaker for The New York Times Wells Fargo has run afoul of banking regulators once again: On Tuesday, for the second time this year,...
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Practical Reverse Engineering Part 5 – Digging Through the Firmware
14 Dec 2016Part 1: Hunting for Debug PortsPart 2: Scouting the FirmwarePart 3: Following the DataPart 4: Dumping the FlashPart 5: Digging Through the FirmwareIn part 4 we extracted the entire firmware...
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