• GNU/Linux

  • 9to5Linux 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 2nd, 2023

    The end of June and the beginning of July were really hot and full of great news. We got new Libreboot and GNU Linux-libre kernel releases, a major Blender release thats also an LTS one, a new Firefox release thats also an ESR one, as well as new distro releases including Nitrux, Peppermint...

• Leftovers

  • CBC Canada wants to woo digital nomads. Can we compete?

    This strategy, part of broader effort to attract tech talent, aims to promote the fact that people working remotely for a foreign employer can spend up to six months in Canada and extend their time here, if they get a job offer from a domestic employer while in the country.

  • Education

    • Geshan How to craft your junior software engineer resume the right way

      Writing a resume as a junior software engineer that strikes the right chord for both technical and non-technical readers is a crucial skill. In this guide, you will learn how you can craft a masterpiece junior software engineer that will get you more calls and possibly int...

Although watching and editing videos may be among the primary tasks of many PCs today, it wasnt that long ago that working with video required powerful processors and expensive video capture hardware. Even in the 1980s, home computer users were looking for ways to connect video sources to their Commodores and Ataris despite their hardware limitations. [Cameron Kaiser] has a mid-1980s consumer-grade video capture device, which he has managed to turn into an almost real-time video capture system.

By Habiba Rashid

Tracked as CVE-2023-3460, the zero-day vulnerability possesses a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating its severity.

This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Zero-Day Exploit Threatens 200,000 WordPress Websites

If youve ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point youve received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a domain or website-related services. In reality, these misleading missives try to trick people into paying for useless services they never ordered, dont need, and probably will never receive. Heres a look at the most recent incarnation of this scam DomainNetworks and some clues about who may be behind it.

The DomainNetworks mailer may reference a domain that is or was at one point registered to your name and address. Although the letter includes the words marketing services in the upper right corner, the rest of the missive is deceptively designed to look like a bill for services already rendered.

DomainNetworks claims that listing your domain with their promotion services will result in increased traffic to your site. This is a dubious claim for a company that appears to be a complete fabrication, as well see in a moment.  But happily, the proprietors of this enterprise were not so difficult to track down.

The website Domainnetworks[.]com says it is a business with a post office box in Hendersonville, N.C., and another address in Santa Fe, N.M. There are a few random, non-technology businesses tied to the phone number listed for the Hendersonville address, and the New Mexico address was used by several no-name web hosting companies.

However, there is little connected to these addresses and phone numbers that get us any closer to finding out whos running Domainnetworks[.]com. And neither entity appears to be an active, official company in their supposed state of residence, at least according to each states Secretary of State database.

The Better Business Bureau listing for DomainNetworks gives it an F rating, and includes more than 100 reviews by people angry at receiving one of these scams via snail mail. Helpfully, the BBB says DomainNetworks previously operated under a different name: US Domain Authority LLC.

GNU Binutils 2.41 was branched today in its Git repository in preparations for releasing this collection of binary utilities widely relied upon by Linux and other platforms...

If youre seeing messages on social media about the Internet being down in France: Thats false. As of 14:45 UTC, the Internet is working normally in France. Im able to browse the Internet though my VPN with an exit node in Paris. Both French sites and international sites look normal to me. There is definitely []

Research explores the effects of microgravity and radiation on the immune system in space conditions. It emphasizes the need to understand these effects for future long-duration space missions and highlights knowledge gaps for further investigation.

Last year the USB4 v2.0 specification was published as the next iteration of the USB4 standard. USB4 v2 supports 80 Gbps transfer rates with USB Type-C active cables and the ability to handle up to 120 Gbps in one direction and 40 Gbps for the other direction. Intel is contributing initial support for USB4 v2 to the Linux 6.5 kernel along with initial enablement on their new Intel Barlow Ridge discrete controller...

What do you do when you find some friends have bought a vacuum forming machine? Make novelty chocolates and ice cubes, of course! This was my response when I had the opportunity to play with a Vaquform DT2 all-in-one vacuum forming machine, so what follows is partly a short review of an exciting machine, and partly an account of my adventures in edible merchandise creation.

The C language is expressive in many ways, but it still does not have ways to express many of the relationships between fields in a data structure. That gap can be at least partially filled, though, if one is willing to create and use non-standard extensions. The adoption of of those extensions, in the form of the __counted_by() macro, has been merged for the 6.5 kernel release, even though the compiler feature it depends on has not yet been finalized.

Version 5.38.0 of the Perl language is out. "Perl 5.38.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl 5.36.0 and contains approximately 290,000 lines of changes across 1,500 files from 100 authors." Significant changes include a new class feature, Unicode 15.0 support, a new API for hooking into functions, and more; see the 5.38.0 perldelta page for details.

By Owais Sultan

Video translation plays a significant role in fostering trust and connection between individuals and cultures. As our world

This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Psychology of Video Translation: Building Trust and Connection

US CISA added actively exploited Samsung and D-Link vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added six Samsung and two D-Link vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

Below is the list of flaws added to the catalog:

• CVE-2019-17621 (CVSS score: 9.8) -D-Link DIR-859 Router Command Execution Vulnerability
• CVE-2019-20500 (CVSS score: 7.8) D-Link DWL-2600AP Access Point Command Injection Vulnerability
• CVE-2021-25487 (CVSS score: 7.8) Samsung Mobile Devices Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability
• CVE-2021-25489 (CVSS score: 5.5) Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
• CVE-2021-25394 (CVSS score: 6.4) Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Vulnerability
• CVE-2021-25395 (CVSS score: 6.4) Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Vulnerability
• CVE-2021-25371 (CVSS score: 6.7) Samsung Mobile Devices Unspecified Vulnerability
• CVE-2021-25372 (CVSS score: 6.7) Samsung Mobile Devices Improper Boundary Check Vulnerability

The CVE-2019-17621 flaw is a remote command execution flaw that resides in the code used to ma...

A Chinese nation-state group has been observed targeting Foreign Affairs ministries and embassies in Europe using HTML smuggling techniques to deliver the PlugX remote access trojan on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Check Point said the activity, dubbed SmugX, has been ongoing since at least December 2022. "The campaign uses new delivery methods to deploy (most notably HTML Smuggling)

Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, python3.7, and yajl), Fedora (chromium, kubernetes, pcs, and webkitgtk), Scientific Linux (open-vm-tools), SUSE (iniparser, keepass, libvirt, prometheus-ha_cluster_exporter, prometheus-sap_host_exporter, rekor, terraform-provider-aws, terraform-provider-helm, and terraform-provider-null), and Ubuntu (python-reportlab and vim).

• Gemini* and Gopher

  • Personal/Opinions

    • Missing what point?

      Ive lived a life of poverty and persecution, and then making something from nothing, hiring people and worrying about how to pay their salaries; I take care of my broke parents, and children, some queer and trans (and I am completely supportive). My life did not include such privileges as choosing pronouns or gender, getting voluntary medical procedures and hormonal treatments, or deciding that other people should bow to me and my lifestyle choices. I was too busy surviving. You are the privileged one here.

      [...]

      That is just so offensive. It is precisely the kind of alienating behaviour that, well, alienates certain groups and gives them a bad name. And it looks like you prefer it that way, so you can bitch those people just dont get it.

      This is what happens when you stew in the same soup you start normalizing horrible behavior. Aside from the name-calling, do you honestly think that you are clearly communicating yourself to anyone? You can hi-five your buds but as an ambassador for your chosen letter, YOU HAVE FAILED, MISERABLY.

    • SpellBinding: AESKNRF Wordo: TRAPS

  • Politics and World Events

    • Really?

      I wasnt planning on posting today. I have a programming related task that I would rather be doing, something that I find interesting and exciting, but my previous post apparently stirred some things. Im not going to even link to the replies. You know who you are. But if I ignored what was said I couldnt live with myself.

    • Coffee, 2 weeks later

      I was heavy drinker of coffee for 20 years. I started to drink coffee at college. It tasted horrible. But I learned it is less unappetizing when milk is added.
      So, I stopped drinking it 2 weeks ago. From 6 doubl...

After being in development for more than one year, Perl 5.38 released today as the latest feature update to this programming language...

Todays encryption schemes will be vulnerable to future quantum computers, but new algorithms and a quantum internet could help.

An android robot, EveR 6, took the conductors podium in Seoul on Friday evening to lead a performance by South Koreas national orchestra, marking the first such attempt in the country.

The two-armed robot, designed by the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, made its debut at the National Theater of Korea, leading musicians in the countrys national orchestra.

The robot, with a humanoid face, first bowed to the audience and started waving its arms to control the tempo of the live show.

By Waqas

A Twitter user successfully utilized the "grandma exploit" to trick ChatGPT and acquire multiple Windows 10 codes.

This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ChatGPT tricked into generating Windows 10 and Windows 11 keys

Note: Microsofters say that the true manager (not public face) of Microsoft is Brad Smith

Summary: Lying dictatorships wherein the dictators commit crimes with impunity speak and act alike

Putin

1. Insists the special operations are temporary
2. Blasts international courts
3. Tries to control all the media
4. Hires criminals to wage war
5. Makes up the law
6. Exaggerates the financial wellbeing/state of what he governs
7. Relies on proxy states like Belarus
8. Routinely issues threats to opponents

Smith

1. Insists any hardships are temporary
2. Blasts regulatory agencies
3. Bribes most of the media / Tries to control all the media with bribes
4. Hires criminals to run Azure [1, 2, 3]
5. Disregards the law
6. Fakes^* the financial performance and worth of the company
7. Relies on a legion of channel partners + other proxies as foot soldiers
8. Routinely attacks anything thats not Microsoft

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^* The economy isnt how it seems in the West.

Microsoft, the worlds most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss of $18 billion, according to Smithers.

The Economist, 1999

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upstart writes:

The quantum equivalent to shooting your own feet:

A few weeks ago, Iran broke through worldwide media due to its announcement that the country had successfully developed and deployed quantum computing products to aid in its military operations. But even as Iran's Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari smiled at the cameras present in the announcement, the tech world was quick to notice that the gold-plaqued board being showcased as an example of the country's work on quantum computing was nothing more than an Amazon-available, ARM-based FPGA (Field-Programable Gate Array) development board.

It seems Iran took a bit longer than one would expect to actually run the numbers on its "quantum computing product." Only recently, the country issued an official withdrawal statement admitting that there was no quantum at all to its quantum announcement.

"The unveiling of the FPGA board in the said conference has conveyed this false mentality to the country's media space that the said board is a quantum processor, which was not the case," said the research vice chancellor for Imam Khomeini University (machine translation via Tasnim News). Note that the issue isn't with the announcement itself and how it was worded. Apparently, the issue was with the country's media.

Even so, the research vice chancellor insisted that Iran is indeed looking into quantum computing as an aid for its armed forces' missions, adding that "the principle of the problem of the proposed algorithm, dealing with the disturbance of surface vessels' positioning systems, is important and approved for the promotion of maritime security."

Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

Summary: The demise of Facebook and other social control media (or the World Wide Web at large) wont be televised; to make matters worse, what prevails on todays Web is clickbait, gossip and SEO noise

MY intention here is not to constantly bash the media, but its curious that instead of finding actual news about Facebook I mostly find Facebook-connected puff pieces and ridiculous gossip about a fight (two sociopaths looking to distract from their commercial failure [2]).

Its a public holiday in the United States, so news is expected to be slow.I moreover worry that reputable news sites now publish cooking recipes as front page news, resort to webspam (sometimes computer-generated spew), and the Web is dominated by digital tabloids, not journalism. For instance, regarding Facebook, Gizmodo [1-5] and Engadget [6] focus on news thats more akin to gossip, including empty claims of parental supervision, just as we noted some hours ago in relation to TikTok. Gizmodo and Engadget also produced a lot of Microsoft webspam earlier this year, faking excitement of hype for some chatbot thats still falsely marketed.

Its a public holiday in the United States, so news is expected to be slow. We continue to wonder aloud how to still pursue actual information and scientific facts. We expect that later this month Microsoft will start another storm of vapourware in the media, days or weeks ahead of mass layoffs being announced again. Theyre batching it. Its a PR ta...

Every website owner or webmaster grapples with the issue of spam on their website forms. The volume of spam can be so overwhelming that finding useful information within it becomes quite challenging. What exacerbates this issue is that spam can populate your public pages, appearing in comments and reviews. You likely understand how this can damage your website's reputation, affect search results

Via: Dr. Suneel Dhand:

Researchers spotted a new Windows information stealer called Meduza Stealer, the authors employ sophisticated marketing strategies to promote it.

The Meduza Stealer can steal browsing activities and extract a wide array of browser-related data, including login credentials, browsing history and bookmarks. The malware also targets crypto wallet extensions, password managers, and 2FA extensions.

The authors are actively developing malware to evade detection, but no specific attacks have been attributed to the Meduza Stealer to date.

The malware admin declared that their operations do not involve any ransom activities. Like other malware, the malicious code doesnt infect systems in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS region). The stealer prevents execution if the C2 server is unreachable. The researchers at Uptycs, who discovered the malware, noticed that the binary does not employ obfuscation techniques, but the malicious code has a low detection rate.

Whats more concerning is that a large portion of antivirus software has proven ineffective against the Meduza stealer binary, either failing to detect it statically or dynamically reads the analysis published by Uptycs. But the real game-changer in their marketing strategy has been the pricing model and the added control provided to subscribers.

The administrator offers access to the stolen data through a management console. The malware also collects a variety of data, including system info, browser info, password manager info, miner related registry info, and installed games info. 

The author offers different subscription plans, including a one-month, three-month, and a lifetime access plan.

Meduza Stealer can target 19 password manager apps, 76 crypto...

The best part of I2C is that it is a bus that is available just about anywhere, covering a vast ecosystem of devices that offer it as a hardware-defined interface, while being uncomplicated enough that it can also be implemented purely in software on plain GPIO pins. Despite this popularity, I2C is one of those famous informal standards that feature a couple of popular implementations, while leaving many of the details such as exact timing, bus capacitance and other tedious details to the poor sod doing the product development. Thus it is that we end up with articles such as a recent one on the tongue-twisting [pair of pared pears] blog, covering issues found while implementing an I2C slave.

As with any shared bus, whether multi-master or not, figuring out when the bus is clear is a fun topic, yet one which can cause endless headaches. One issue here comes from a feature that the rapid transfer of some data. Still, depending on the data returned by the slave, it may appear to the master that no...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has placed a set of eight flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This includes six shortcomings affecting Samsung smartphones and two vulnerabilities impacting D-Link devices. All the flaws have been patched as of 2021. CVE-2021-25394 (CVSS score: 6.4) - Samsung mobile

The concept of a computational consciousness and the potential impact it may have on humanity is a topic of ongoing debate and speculation. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made significant advancements in recent years, we have not yet achieved a true computational consciousness that can replicate the complexities of the human mind.

It is true that AI technologies are becoming more sophisticated and capable of performing tasks that were previously exclusive to human intelligence. However, there are fundamental differences between Artificial Intelligence and human consciousness. Human consciousness is not solely based on computation; it encompasses emotions, subjective experiences, self-awareness, and other aspects that are not yet fully understood or replicated in machines.

The arrival of advanced AI systems could certainly have transformative effects on society and our understanding of humanity. It may reshape various aspects of our lives, from how we work and communicate to how we approach healthcare and scientific discoveries. AI can enhance our capabilities and provide valuable tools for solving complex problems.

However, it is important to consider the ethical implications and potential risks associated with the development of AI. Ensuring that AI systems are developed and deployed responsibly, with a focus on fairness, transparency, and accountability, is crucial.

The relationship between humans and AI is evolving, and it is essential to approach this integration with thoughtful consideration. While AI technologies can augment and assist us, they do not replace the essence of our humanity. It is through careful collaboration and understanding that we can harness the potential of AI while preserving our unique qualities as human beings.

In this new era of advancing AI, the ETER9 Project introduces a groundbreaking concept: the creation of digital counterparts. These AI-driven entities are designed to simulate human personalities, thoughts, and behaviors, offering a unique opportunity for individuals to explor...

The Virtual Function I/O "VFIO" changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.5 kernel merge window. This IOMMU/device agnostic framework has added an AMD CDX driver this cycle along with other improvements for this subsystem that is important to the Linux virtualization stack...

The in-development GCC 14 compiler has added support for the MIPS16e2 processor ISA...

Also available via the Gemini protocol at:

• gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-020723.gmi
• gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-020723.gmi
• gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-020723.gmi
• gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-020723.gmi

Over HTTP:

In yet another sign of a lucrative crimeware-as-a-service (CaaS) ecosystem, cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows-based information stealer called Meduza Stealer that's actively being developed by its author to evade detection by software solutions. "The Meduza Stealer has a singular objective: comprehensive data theft," Uptycs said in a new report. "It pilfers users' browsing

Researchers from the Elastic Security Labs have spotted a new variant of the RustBucket Apple macOS malware.

In April, the security firm Jamf observed the North Korea-linked BlueNoroff APT group using a new macOS malware, dubbed RustBucket.

The group BlueNoroff is considered a group that operates under the control of the notorious North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group.

The RustBucket malware allows operators to download and execute various payloads. The attribution to the BlueNoroff APT is due to the similarities in the findings that emerged from Kasperskys analysis published in December 2022. The similarities include malicious tooling on macOS that closely aligns with TTPs of those employed in the campaign.

The first-stage malware was contained within an unsigned application named Internal PDF Viewer.app. Experts believe the app can only be executed by manually overriding the Gatekeeper security measure.

The stage-one simply executes various do shell script commands to download the second stage malware from the C2 using curl. The malicious code extracts the contents of the zip file to the /Users/Shared/ directory and executes a stage-two application which is also named Internal PDF Viewer.app.

The second stage malware doesnt use AppleScript, it masquerades as a legitimate Apple bundle identifier and is signed with an ad-hoc signature.

When the Internal PDF Viewer application is launched, the user is presented with a PDF viewing application where they can select and open PDF documents. The application, although basic, does actually operate as a functional PDF viewer. reads the analysis published by Jamf. A task that isnt overly difficult using Apples well-built PDFKit Framework.

The stage-two malware communicates with the C2 server to fetch the stage-three payload, which is an ad-hoc signed trojan written in the Rust language. The trojan can run on both ARM and x86 architectures.

Upon executing, the malware collects system information, including the process listing, current time and whether or not its running within a VM.

This third-stage payload allows the attacker to carry o...

Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Jul 03

We always enjoy [FesZs] videos, and his latest about FREQ function in LTSpice is no exception. In fact, LTSpice doesnt document it, but it is part of the underlying Spice system. So, of course, you can figure it out or just watch the video below. The FREQ keyword allows you to change component attributes in a frequency-depended way.

Of course, capacitors and inductors are frequency dependent by design. But the FREQ technique allows you to adjust things like voltage sources or resistance in arbitrary ways. By default, you must specify the frequency response data in decibels, which isnt always convenient. However, [FesZ] shows you how to use other methods to express them using modifiers to the command.

When you have experimental frequency response data, you probably have many samples. About midway through the video, youll see how to manage data with more points using a subcircuit that you can put in an external file.

The end of the video looks at some practical applications. He shows an inductor characterized by a vector network analyzer. With the S1 parameters, he can produce a high-fidelity model of the actual inductor instead of using a generic model of an inductor. A little spreadsheet gymnastics allows him to convert the file into Spice format quickly.

If you need more help with LTSpice, we can help...

Many pirate sites have attracted large volumes of traffic over the years but a relatively new breed of streaming portals have taken things to a whole new level.

Excellent traffic levels a few years ago were measured in tens of millions of visits per month, but when Soap2Day suddenly threw in the towel around June 12/13, the site was receiving at least 108 million visits. Given that traffic levels were trending up and the site had no obvious technical issues, a zero-notice termination of a hugely successful platform prompts a single question: why now?

Legal Action in Canada

Dozens of reasons lie behind the closure of hundreds of sites over the years, but its extremely rare for highly successful sites to throw in the towel for minor reasons. A catastrophic team issue was a possible explanation when Soap2Day shut itself down, but the safer money was always on legal problems.

We cant confirm the reasons from a direct source, but the following facts appear to leave very little doubt that Soap2Day shut down under massive legal pressure.

On May 31, 2023, major entertainment companies Bell Media, Netflix, Disney, Columbia, Universal, Warner, and Paramount, plus Get Er Done Productions and Spinner Productions, launched legal action at the Federal Court in Canada. The named parties were Soap2Day and a presumed operator of the platform listed only as John Doe.

The plaintiffs immediately sought an interim confidentiality order and on June 7, the Court obliged. The studios requested an interlocutory injunction pursuant to section 44 of the Federal Court Act and Rule 373 of the Federal Court Rules; the latter allows the Court to issue an injunction where there is a strong case to support copyright infringement and the plaintiffs face irreparable harm.

In short, the Court ordered the site to shut down and thats exactly what it did.

Plaintiffs Seek Norwich Order

In Canada and the United Kingdom, the Norwich Pharmacal Order is often the discovery weapon of choice in cases involving online copyright infringement. First acquired in a case back in 1973/74, Norwich orders allow plaintiffs to obtain information regarding infringements from parties who may not themselves be involved in the alleged infringement. In this case, two service providers.

Court documents rev...

owl writes:

http://www.righto.com/2023/07/the-complex-history-of-intel-i960-risc.html

The Intel i960 was a remarkable 32-bit processor of the 1990s with a confusing set of versions. Although it is now mostly forgotten (outside the many people who used it as an embedded processor), it has a complex history. It had a shot at being Intel's flagship processor until x86 overshadowed it. Later, it was the world's best-selling RISC processor. One variant was a 33-bit processor with a decidedly non-RISC object-oriented instruction set; it became a military standard and was used in the F-22 fighter this blog post, I'll take a look at the history of the i960, explain its different variants, and examine silicon dies. This chip has a lot of mythology and confusion (especially on Wikipedia), so I'll try to clear things up.

The ancestry of the i960 starts in 1975, when Intel set out to design a "micro-mainframe", a revolutionary processor that would bring the power of mainframe computers to microprocessors. This project, eventually called the iAPX 432, was a huge leap in features and complexity. Intel had just released the popular 8080 processor in 1974, an 8-bit processor that kicked off the hobbyist computer era with computers such as the Altair and IMSAI. However, 8-bit microprocessors were toys compared to 16-bit minicomputers like the PDP-11, let alone mainframes like the 32-bit IBM System/370. Most companies were gradually taking minicomputer and mainframe features and putting them into microprocessors, but Intel wanted to leapfrog to a mainframe-class 32-bit processor. The processor would make programmers much more productive by bridging the "semantic gap" between high-level languages and simple processors, implementing many features directly into the processor.

The 432 processor included memory management, process management, and interprocess communication. These features were traditionally part of the operating system, but Intel built them in the processor, calling this the "Silicon Operating System". The processor was also one of the first to implement the new IEEE 754 floating-point standard, still in use by most processors. The 432 also had support for fault tolerance and multi-processor systems. One of the most unusual features of the 432 was that instructions weren't byte aligned. Instead, instructions were between 6 and 321 bits long, and you could jump into the middle of a byte. Another unusual feature was that the 432 was a st...

We all spend too much of our lives thinking about what may have been.  Yet you chose your path.  you were given that much and it is the definition of free will however narrow the choice happens to be.

Such contemplations though are usually good entertainment at least and we usually do not dwell too long on the nasty parts.  remember just how little we really remember.  Somehow i learned early to look forward and remember only what i needed then.  That will surprise you a few times.

I even recall struggling with a type problem in first year calculus and then a year later, never looking at it again, showing another first year student easily just how to solve that type of problem.  curious.

my take home is that our memory, or at least my memory can jump back and forth through TIME and efficiently pick my points.  this surely means a lot.  Inspect your own memories for any such behavior.

I do call this remembering the future.  It is what separates biological memory from mechanical memory as evolving now through AI and also evolved out of plasma.  this is a pretty strong assertion and also a limiting conjecture.  It certainly explains just why biolgical life even exists which is to see the future better.  We even can detect pathways converging on our best future as well.  forever optimistic here.

since all life is doing this, a lot is explained.  Predation must actually suppress this phenom in order to eat.  And of course range matters which is why we use tools.  This suggests that the FAll from Eden included not just a loss of mind to m...

Like the Energizer Bunny, TweetDeck keeps loading and loading and loading...

The post TweetDeck Goes Kaflooey appeared first on FOSS Force.

Recent progress in AI has been startling. Barely a weeks gone by without a new algorithm, application, or implication making headlines. But OpenAI, the source of much of the hype, only recently completed their flagship algorithm, GPT-4, and according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, its successor, GPT-5, hasnt begun training yet.

Its possible the tempo will slow down in coming months, but dont bet on it. A new AI model as capable as GPT-4, or more so, may drop sooner than later.

This week, in an interview with Will Knight, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said their next big model, Gemini, is currently in development, a process that will take a number of months. Hassabis said Gemini will be a mashup drawing on AIs greatest hits, most notably DeepMinds AlphaGo, which employed reinforcement learning to topple a champion at Go in 2016, years before experts expected the feat.

Having a computer that locks its screen after a few minutes of inactivity is always a good idea from a security standpoint, especially in offices where there is a lot of foot traffic. Even the five- or ten-minute activity timers that are set on most workstations arent really perfect solutions. While ideally in these situations wed all be locking our screens manually when we get up, that doesnt always happen. The only way to guarantee that this problem is solved is to use something like this automatic workstation locker.

The project is based around the LD2410 presence sensor, which is itself a small 24 GHz radar module paired with an ESP32 which simplifies the detection of objects and motion. [Enzo] paired one of these modules with a Seed Xiao nrf52840 development board to listen to the radar module and send the screen lock keyboard shortcut to the computer when it detects that the user has walked away from the machine. The only thing that [Enzo] wants to add is a blinking LED to let the user know when the device is about to timeout so that it doesnt accidentally lock the machine when not needed.

One of the parts of this build that is a little bit glossed over...

Threat actors associated with the BlackCat ransomware have been observed employing malvertising tricks to distribute rogue installers of the WinSCP file transfer application. "Malicious actors used malvertising to distribute a piece of malware via cloned webpages of legitimate organizations," Trend Micro researchers said in an analysis published last week. "In this case, the distribution

Threat actors are well-aware of the vulnerability of our cloud infrastructure. The internet we have today is not equipped to serve the data needs of the future. When data is stored in the cloud, it can end up across several servers anywhere in the world. If one of these computers is compromised, your data can be stolen or misused. Therefore, when you create an information system, either on-premises or in the cloud, one of the More

The post Cloud security: Sometimes the risks may outweigh the rewards appeared first on Help Net Security.

After immunotherapy caused diarrhea and colitis, Suzanne Singletary agreed to undergo a fecal transplant to help manage her symptoms so she could live her life and continue small cell lung cancer treatment.

Research into AI is experiencing a boom, so we have rounded up the best of news from the past month to help you keep up to date.

By Matthew Sparkes

AI applications are summarizing articles, writing stories and engaging in long conversations and large language models are doing the heavy lifting.

A large language model, or LLM, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, translate, predict and generate text and other forms of content based on knowledge gained from massive datasets.

Large language models are among the most successful applications of transformer models. They arent just for teaching AIs human languages, but for understanding proteins, writing software code, and much, much more.