Facebook’s Opacus is a library for training PyTorch models with differential privacy that’s ostensibly more scalable…
Month: August 2020
Comedian uses Trump supporters’ ‘conservative logic’ to defend the most evil people in history
Comedian Greg Larsen on Monday challenged his Twitter followers to name some of the most evil people in…
Vintage NASA satellite falls to Earth, meets fiery doom after 56 years in space
RIP, OGO-1 satellite. You’ve had a long trip since 1964. Read more at Space.com…
Repeating fast radio burst woke up again on schedule. Now what? | EarthSky.org
FRB 121102 is one of the few known repeating fast radio bursts, and astronomers are trying…
iOS 14: Facebook’s Apple Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse
Soon-to-launch iOS 14 is a momentous leap for iPhone privacy, but this week Facebook confirmed its…
Study suggests hibernation was an ancient adaptation to harsh winters
The image seen below is an illustration of a creature called a Lystrosaurus. The strange-looking creature…
Neuralink demonstrates its next-generation brain-machine interface
During a press conference held online, Elon Musks Neuralink gave a progress update on its ambitious…
Fix For Potential SSD-Damaging Bug Coming in Windows Update – ExtremeTech
Microsoft is rolling out a fix for an SSD defrag bug introduced in the 2004 update…
Did life travel between Earth and Mars? New study supports theory of panspermia
Scientists conducted an experiment onboard the International Space Station that supported the controversial theory of panspermia.…
Nano-diamond self-charging batteries could disrupt energy as we know it
California company NDB says its nano-diamond batteries will absolutely upend the energy equation, acting like tiny…
The USB Null Modem Cable Is Now A Thing
The classic serial null-modem cable was, among other things, used to connect two computers together for…
Solved astronomy mystery after just one year at university
Three first-year students have found a way to detect violent explosions in distant galaxies. Now, one…
Pysa: A Tool to Prevent Security Vulnerabilities in Python | Hacker Noon
Pysa is an acronym for python static analyzer. It checks code and analyzes how data flows…
Stealing Keys From The Sound Of The Lock
If you are smart, you wouldn’t hand your house key over to a stranger for a…
Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
Blockchain technology is going to change everything: the shipping industry, the financial system, government … in…
iPhone and iPad photos permanently wiped, as Adobe bungles iOS Lightroom app update | ZDNet
Lightroom iOS users learn a hard lesson in backing up photos, but Adobe doesn’t even offer…
An innocent typo led to a giant 212-story obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator
A university student edited OpenStreetMap data and created a hilarious Microsoft Flight Simulator glitch Read more…
A prediction model of outcome of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia based on laboratory findings
Prediction model was found highly accurate in distinguishing non-survivors from discharged patients. Seven features selected by…
New P2P botnet infects SSH servers all over the world
Botnet is hard to detect and with no centralized control server, harder to take down. Read…
Our Planet Protected Us. Earth ‘Bends’ An Asteroid Just 1,830 Miles Out, The Closest Flyby On Record
It’s now the closest known “non-impacting” asteroid to ever fly by our planet. Read more at…