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Year: 2022
Likely cause of mystery child hepatitis outbreak found
UK experts believe they can now explain the recent spate of mysterious liver problems in young…
Experts Uncover New ‘CosmicStrand’ UEFI Firmware Rootkit Used by Chinese Hackers
Researchers have discovered a new UEFI firmware rootkit malware, dubbed “CosmicStrand,” that Chinese hackers have been…
MegaPortraits: High-Res Deepfakes Created From a Single Photo
Researchers from Samsung Labs have developed a way to create high-resolution avatars, or deepfakes, from a…
Pinball Fantastic: ESP32 Runs DOS Emulator, Hits Jackpot
it’s running an X86 emulator powerful enough to set Digital Illusions’ 1992 DOS classic Pinball Fantasies…
Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter
Advisory had already warned hardcoded password was “trivial to obtain.” Read more at Ars Technica…
A Painful Deadline Nears as Colorado River Reservoirs Run Critically Low
The federal government has told states to agree on urgent water cuts to ensure dams can…
James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning ‘Phantom Galaxy’ picture looks like a wormhole
The telescope is ‘new, different, and exciting’ for Judy Schmidt, who has been working with space…
New Linux Malware Framework Lets Attackers Install Rootkit on Targeted Systems
Researchers uncover “Lightning Framework,” a new Swiss Army Knife-like Linux malware that has modular plugins and…
James Webb telescope is so powerful, it detected water on a distant exoplanet
NASA’s James Webb space telescope is so powerful it can even detect water and other substances…
Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?
That may bode ill for nuclear deterrence and the peace of the world. Read more at…
Black holes may die differently than we thought
New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.…
AI system creates realistic images and art from a textual description
“An astronaut riding a horse as pencil drawing”. This and many more images can be easily…
This adorable 1-inch HDMI monitor doesn’t need a power supply
As small as an HDMI monitor gets. Read more at Ars Technica…
Earth Has a 27.5-Million-Year ‘Heartbeat’, But We Have No Idea What Causes It
In the last 260 million years, dinosaurs came and went, Pangea split into the continents and…
C isn’t a programming language anymore
‘It has completely distorted the way we speak to each other,’ Read more…
“Chance of Impact 100%” – Fifth Asteroid Ever Discovered Before Impact
Most asteroids that have impacted Earth were discovered many years, often many millions of years, after…
Pruning for Deep Neural Networks — Techniques to Prune Image and Language Models
In this blog post, we will go over two techniques for pruning deep neural networks. One…
Implementing a Transformer From Scratch
7 Things You Didn’t Know About the Transformer Read more at Medium…
My elaborate study notes on reinforcement learning
In this article we would like to share what we have learned about Reinforcement Learning. Read…