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Mozilla commends Slack for taking a crucial step forward in implementing a safety feature that allows individuals to disengage from unsafe situations on the platform. This feature is particularly important in combating harassment and ensuring the well-being of users, especially those with marginalized identities. In collaboration with Fight for the Future, Mozilla launched petitions urging […]
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Telecom companies such as AT&T and Verizon have known about the health risks of lead-covered cables for decades, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. Lead was used to prevent water damage to copper wires in the country’s telecommunications network between 1940 and the 1980s. Despite the dangers of exposure to the toxic […]
Kata Containers is an open source community dedicated to creating a secure container runtime that combines the benefits of lightweight virtual machines with the familiarity and efficiency of containers. Their goal is to provide enhanced workload isolation through hardware virtualization technology as an added layer of defense. Since its launch in December 2017, the community […]
In the recent paper titled “Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors by Jiang et al., there seems to be a bug or unexpected choice in their kNN code, leading to higher accuracy numbers than expected. The paper’s Table 5, which was widely shared on Twitter, shows the gzip method outperforming other neural-network-based […]
Chess puzzles have become a mental warm-up for the author, helping occupy their brain and provide a break from mindless scrolling. They came across a book called “Think Like A Super-GM,” which takes chess puzzles and examines the thought processes of players of various skill levels. The most striking lesson from the book is the […]
In this web content, the author addresses the common misconception that the C programming language lacks encapsulation and isolation. They explain that while C does not have classes, it does have structs, which can be used to achieve encapsulation. The author also discusses how splitting code into different files and modules in C can provide […]
If you’re a Firefox desktop user, you might be curious about how the minimaps on my blog posts are created. Well, Firefox is the only browser that supports the fancy element() CSS function, which allows you to display images of HTML elements on your page. The best part is that it’s live, so you can […]
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a vehicle security system called Battery Sleuth that aims to protect against wireless hacking and theft. The system authenticates drivers by measuring voltage fluctuations in a vehicle’s electrical system using a keypad device plugged into the auxiliary power outlet. By delivering a predetermined series of voltage fluctuations […]
CPUlator is a web-based simulator and debugger that allows users to simulate and debug computer systems, specifically processors and I/O devices. It supports instruction sets such as Nios II, ARMv7, and MIPS, and offers optional I/O devices for each system. One unique feature of CPUlator is that it runs entirely inside a web browser, eliminating […]
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has initiated a lawsuit against four doctors who conducted studies linking talc-based personal care products to cancer. J&J accuses the researchers of publishing inaccurate studies, claiming that their findings are based on “junk science.” The company’s subsidiary, LTL Management, filed a lawsuit in New Jersey federal court, demanding that three of […]