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In 1946, the author repaired to the remote Isle of Jura and wrote his masterpiece, "1984." What was he looking for?

Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online — a practice which is banned under the country’s 2019 Unfair Competition Prevention Act.

Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor recently found in XZ, which is used in many popular Linux distributions and in OpenSSH server process.

As should be expected, a number of individuals have come forward with responses to the initial blog post. While I do not expect everyone to take even a passing interest in the rabbit-hole of the si…

Connecting the digital and physical worlds with our first multimodal model.

On April 10, 2024, Volexity identified zero-day exploitation of a vulnerability found within the GlobalProtect feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS at one of its network security monitoring (NSM) customers. Volexity received alerts regarding suspect network…

We analyze how well pre-trained large language models (e.g., Llama2, GPT-4, Claude 3, etc) can do linear and non-linear regression when given in-context examples, without any additional training...

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Ubisoft has gone one step further to try and stop people getting into The Crew.

#Ubuntu 24.04 (and #debian) removed libsystemd from openSSH server deps:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/1:9.6p1-3ubuntu13

Less is more!

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@

libwrap.so.0

libaudit.so.1

libpam.so.0
-
libsystemd.so.0

libselinux.so.1

li…

Calm companies are profitable, value freedom, have a purpose, and improve the team's lives. Frenzied companies are crisis-driven.

After writing my last post on Rails plugin idioms, I realized that Ruby
metaprogramming, at its core, is actually quite simple.

It comes down to the fact that all Ruby code is executed code--there is no
separate compile or runtime phase. In Ruby, every line…

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