OH: "How can you tell you’re logging into a critical piece of infrastructure?" "You get the Security Warning for SSL cert mismatch.

interviewer: Welcome, can I get you coffee or anything? Do you need a break? me: No, I've probably had too much coffee already! interviewer: Great, great. And are you OK with writing code on the...

Bacteria with synthetic gene circuit self-assemble into working device

A once-restless student who flunked out of college went on to found entirely new fields of mathematics. “He has given us a new constitution,” a colleague said.

Toutiao, a news aggregator, has quickly become one of the top apps in China. Learn how it grew into its popularity and why users use it everyday more often than any other daily app.

Despite concerns about flooding in and around the Addicks and Barker reservoirs, government officials prioritized development.

The new masters of the universe are struggling to understand what makes a modern economy tick and their actions could prove harmful

This website presents the Key Reinstallation Attack (KRACK). It breaks the WPA2 protocol by forcing nonce reuse in encryption algorithms used by Wi-Fi.

In the past month or two, I’ve spoken on the topic of alert design. There’s a video of my giving the talk (at Monitorama, as well), but I thoug

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Ever since Deep Learning hit the scene in speech recognition, word error rates
have fallen dramatically. But despite articles you may have read, we still
don’t have human-level speech recognition. Speech recognizers have many failure
modes. Acknowledging…

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https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/froscon/2015/froscon2015-1524-lies_damned_lies_and_scans.html

On the scale of things too horrible to contemplate, "document-altering scanner" is right up there with "flesh-eating bacteria". Since 2006, Xerox scancopiers…

The West shouldn’t fear China’s artificial-intelligence revolution. It should copy it.

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ODrive - High performance motor control for robotics.

We've developed an approach to generate 3D adversarial objects that reliably fool neural networks in the real world, no matter how the objects are looked at.

During the 2008-2010 App Store gold rush, all you needed were a pick, ax, and laptop to strike it rich. Forget a business plan and forget being original: Just make an app, any app, and your chances of...