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Category: Tech
All the stuff that fall into broad tech category.
UK and Australia open joint data-privacy investigation into Clearview AI
The facial recognition company is being scrutinized over its database of 3 billion photos. Read more…
Microsoft wants to kill off Linux malware for good
Project Freta detects Linux malware for free. Read more at TechRadar…
Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like ‘blacklist’ and ‘slave’ | ZDNet
Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts stamp on proposal to use neutral language in kernel code and…
Fusion Energy Gets Ready to Shine—Finally
Three decades and $23.7 billion later, the 25,000-ton International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is close to becoming…
How to Crack SSH Private Key Passwords with John the Ripper
Secure Shell is one of the most common network protocols, typically used to manage remote machines…
Software updates bring extra torque to Bosch ebike motors
One of the occasional joys of electric vehicle ownership is that a factory software update can…
MySQL drops master-slave and blacklist-whitelist terminology | ZDNet
Engineering teams update internal terminologies all over the tech world. Latest examples include Twitter, JP Morgan,…
Rocket Lab launch fails during rocket’s second stage burn, causing a loss of vehicle and payloads – TechCrunch
Rocket Lab’s ‘Pic or it didn’t happen’ launch on Saturday ended in failure, with a total…
Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention (Paper Explained)
#ai #attention #transformer #deeplearning Transformers are famous for two things: Their superior performance and their insane…
When Apple moves Mac to Arm, is it time for Mac users to move to Windows? | ZDNet
It seems like an obvious question since new machines will have to be purchased. But the…
BERTology Meets Biology: Interpreting Attention in Protein Language Models (Paper Explained)
Proteins are the workhorses of almost all cellular functions and a core component of life. But…
DJing Without The Truckload Of Equipment; Secret Ingredient Is Raspberry Pi
There is a romance to notions of a byegone age of DJing — driving a pair…
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
TLDR: It’s a little slower than native Ubuntu, but the future is bright! Read more at…
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…
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…