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I revoked $1M worth of EV certificates
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Scott Helme
Extended Validation not so... extended? How I revoked $1,000,000 worth of EV certificates!
Personal like or dislike of EV aside for a moment, we can all agree on what the
name of EV certs implies. Organisations get their company details in the
certificate and CAs have to do some extended validation of that data compared to
a normal certificate.…
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Worms fail to thrive in soil containing microplastics: study
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the Guardian
Worms fail to thrive in soil containing microplastics – study
Finding could have implications for farming - as worms are vital part of farmland ecosystem
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Curryfinger – Find the Server Behind the CDN
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dualuse.io
CURRYFINGER - SNI & Host header spoofing utility - DUALUSE
CURRYFINGER quickly and effectively identifies the real hosts behind CDN networks like CloudFlare - and outperforms existing tools. Find out how to use it.
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Age Discrimination at Work
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NY Times
An Open Letter (and a Rant) on Age Discrimination at Work
One writer, in his 50s, has applied to more than 100 jobs. And a second has had it up to her silver bob with younger colleagues’ condescension.
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Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into laptops by hiding it in the BIOS (2015)
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www.theregister.co.uk
CAUGHT: Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into Windows laptops – by hiding it in the BIOS
How Microsoft made it possible, and how to truly purge it
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The Ancient World's Longest Underground Aqueduct (2009)
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Spiegel
The Ancient World's Longest Underground Aqueduct
Roman engineers chipped an aqueduct through more than 100 kilometers of stone to connect water to cities in the ancient province of Syria. The monumental effort took more than a century, says the German researcher who discovered it.
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Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
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BBC News
Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
The fires are under control, state media say, as Yemen's Houthi group says it deployed the drones.
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A Game That Made Rats Jump for Joy
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The Atlantic
The Game That Made Rats Jump for Joy
Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek in order to study natural animal behavior—but it was also fun, for both the researchers and the animals.
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Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?
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AI Weirdness
Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?
I’ve done several experiments with a text-generating neural network called GPT-2. Trained at great expense by OpenAI (to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars worth of computing power), GPT-2 learned to imitate all kinds of text from the internet. I’ve…
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Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech
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Preventing GPS spoofing is hard, but you can at least detect it
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Ars Technica
Preventing GPS spoofing is hard—but you can at least detect it
This GPS spoofing defense software looks promising, but it's short on detail.
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France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
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Reuters
France and Germany agree to block Facebook's Libra
PARIS (Reuters) - France and Germany have agreed to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency, the French finance ministry said on Friday.
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Is chroot a security feature?
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Red Hat Customer Portal
Is chroot a security feature? - Red Hat Customer Portal
The Red Hat Customer Portal delivers the knowledge, expertise, and guidance available through your Red Hat subnoscription.
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OpenBSD Disabled DoH by Default in Firefox
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Magnus: Shazam for Art
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Notre-Dame’s Toxic Fallout
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Nytimes
Notre-Dame’s Toxic Fallout (Published 2019)
Flames engulfed 460 tons of lead when Notre-Dame’s roof and spire burned, scattering dangerous dust onto the streets and parks of Paris.
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Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes
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WSJ
U.S. Blames Iran for Attack on Saudi Oil Facilities
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for coordinated strikes on the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, saying they marked an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply. The strikes shut down half of the kingdom’s crude production, potentially…
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Parallel GCC: a research project aiming to parallelize a real-world compiler
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A trial to control mosquito populations using genetic engineering has gone wrong
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New Atlas
Failed GM mosquito control experiment may have strengthened wild bugs
An experimental pest control method using genetically-modified mosquitoes has gone wrong, mixing mutant genes into Brazil's wild mosquito population.
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How to Make Custom AI-Generated Text with GPT-2
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Minimaxir
How To Make Custom AI-Generated Text With GPT-2
Thanks to gpt-2-simple and this Colaboratory Notebook, you can easily finetune GPT-2 on your own dataset!
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Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)
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BBC News
Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of programming
An unassuming programmer from Reading has become a minor celebrity on the internet, the "Chuck Norris of programming" who has helped thousands of people with their computing needs.
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