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US and UK govts warn: Russia scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities

theregister.com

in brief If you need an excuse to improve your patching habits, a joint advisory from...
in brief If you need an excuse to improve your patching habits, a joint advisory from the US and UK governments about a massive, ongoing Russian campaign exploiting known vulnerabilities should do the trick. In a joint release [PDF] by the US National Security Agency, FBI, Cyber National Mission Force and UK Nationa...
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North Koreans deployed alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, sources say

theguardian.com

North Korean military engineers have been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine with ballistic missiles, and...
North Korean military engineers have been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine with ballistic missiles, and fighters operating in occupied areas of the country have already been killed, senior officials in Kyiv and Seoul said.There are dozens of North Koreans behind Russian lines, in teams that “support launcher s...
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UCLA astrophysics professor says he's homeless due to low pay

ktla.com
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Internet Archive data is safe, still bringing services back up

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Drinking alcohol reduces the body's natural GLP-1 activity by 34%

recursiveadaptation.com

Preface: CASPR is Hiring!We are hiring for a full-time position, a Strategic Associate, doing research, grant...
Preface: CASPR is Hiring!We are hiring for a full-time position, a Strategic Associate, doing research, grant writing, support, and various projects. This could be a very exciting job for some interested in and ambitious about public health impact. Job description is here. Please pass it along to anyone you think is...
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Review: ReMarkable Paper Pro

amandariu.com

I’ve had my reMarkable 2 for several years and overall it’s been a great device. Before...
I’ve had my reMarkable 2 for several years and overall it’s been a great device. Before we talk about the new reMarkable Paper Pro, let’s talk about the pros and cons of the older reMarkable 2: Pros It’s super thin The e-ink is responsive The writing feels natural, as if I’m actually writing on paper. The sync with ...
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Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only

sciencealert.com

Imagine three people huddled in a circle so when one speaks, only one other hears. Scientists...
Imagine three people huddled in a circle so when one speaks, only one other hears. Scientists have created a device that works like that, ensuring sound waves ripple in one direction only. The device, developed by scientists at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, is made up of a disk-s...
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Build systems, not heroes

vitonsky.net

Enterprise programming is the management of system complexity. The main goals of most enterprise projects are...
Enterprise programming is the management of system complexity. The main goals of most enterprise projects are to minimize bugs, ensure scalability, and release as soon as possible. These goals are unreachable in projects where people rely on individual skills rather than on a system-based approach. Maybe you have se...

code quality management
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Skip Hash: A Fast Ordered Map via Software Transactional Memory

arxiv.org
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Terraform Provider for Dominos Pizza

terraform.io
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BinSym: Symbolic execution for RISC-V machine code based on LibRISCV ISA model

github.com
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Kagi Snaps

kagi.com
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Highly sensitive airborne virus monitoring: microfluidic cartridge for RIAMs

nature.com
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Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve

theregister.com

On Call As Friday rolls around Reg readers can start to contemplate pressing the Shut Down...
On Call As Friday rolls around Reg readers can start to contemplate pressing the Shut Down button for the working week. And to amuse you as the moment at which you can make that magic click draws near, we always offer a fresh instalment of On Call – our reader-contributed column of tech support tasks that went in in...
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Shibboleth

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Custom or tradition that distinguishes one group from another For other uses, see Shibboleth (disambiguation). A...
Custom or tradition that distinguishes one group from another For other uses, see Shibboleth (disambiguation). A New Orleans resident challenges out-of-towners who had come to protest against the 2017 removal of the Robert E. Lee Monument. The out-of-towners' inability to pronounce "Tchoupitoulas Street" according t...
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Canonical Releases Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole

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Are retrocomputers best left on or off?

stackexchange.com

This is not subjective at all. You should do whatever is best for the critical components...
This is not subjective at all. You should do whatever is best for the critical components rather than what is best for the hardware overall. Some things in a computer are trivial to repair, other parts are impossible. TL;DR: keep it turned off. (The author of this answer has some 20+ years of experience from electro...
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Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

androidauthority.com

Mishaal Rahman / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android. The Terminal...
Mishaal Rahman / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android. The Terminal app can be enabled via developer options and will install Debian in a virtual machine. This app is likely intended for Chromebooks but might also be available for mobile devices, too. Although a lot of work ca...
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Exploring 120 Years of Timezones

scottlogic.com

Timezones, and daylight saving - the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour once a...
Timezones, and daylight saving - the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour once a year - are a pain. They make it hard to schedule international meetings, plan travel, or may simply cause you to be an hour late for work once a year. For a developer, they are even worse! The number of things that can trip you...
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Gleam: A Basic Introduction

peq42.com
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An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs

washingtonpost.com
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Show HN: Sendsheets.com – send personalized emails from Google Sheets

sendsheets.com
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A Swiss firm’s software mines the world’s knowledge for patent opportunities

ieee.org

Just outside Lausanne, Switzerland, in a meeting room wallpapered with patent drawings, Ioannis Ierides faced a...
Just outside Lausanne, Switzerland, in a meeting room wallpapered with patent drawings, Ioannis Ierides faced a classic sales challenge: demonstrating his product’s advantages within the short span of his customer’s attention. Ierides is a business-development manager at Iprova, a company that sells ideas for invent...

generative ai invention patents
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What Ticketmaster doesn't want you to know: tickets were cheaper for decades

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