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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…
Semi-supervised Intent Classification with GAN-BERT
Intent Classification on CLINC150 Dataset with semi-supervised approach using GAN-BERT Read more at Medium…
Machine learning enables completely automatic tuning of a quantum device faster than human experts
To optimize operating conditions of large scale semiconductor quantum devices, a large parameter space has to…
A college student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of Hacker News
He says he wanted to prove the AI could pass as a human writer Read more…
3D On The ZX Spectrum 48K
There are times when a project becomes such a big part of a maker’s life that…
Why Tokyo’s New Transparent Public Restrooms Are A Stroke Of Genius
A Pritzker-winning Japanese architect aims to take the anxiety out of using public toilets. Read more…
Material found by scientists ‘could merge AI with human brain’
Technology could enable new health diagnostics and achieve Elon Musk’s goal of integrating with artificial intelligence…
Malaysia detects coronavirus strain that’s ten times more infectious
The mutation called D614G was found in at least three of the 45 cases in a…
How Do You Solve a Moon Mystery? Fire a Laser at It
Researchers have used reflective prisms left on the moon’s surface for decades, but had increasingly seen…
There’s a 90% Chance of a Successful Coronavirus Vaccine: Experts
Welcome to the COVID-19 arms race. Read more at The National Interest…
Everything Wrong With Modern Theoretical Physics In One Paper’s Practical Summary
There was once a time when theoretical physicists were prized because they were basically smarter than…
This star is moving so fast it visibly warps spacetime
S62 is moving at eight percent the speed of light — just fast enough to see…