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Kaspersky has reported on its latest cybersecurity discovery – an intricate, professional, targeted cyber attack that uses Apple’s mobile phones. The attack involved placing spyware on iPhones belonging to employees of Kaspersky itself, both the middle and the upper management. Invisible messages containing a malicious attachment exploited various vulnerabilities in the iOS operating system to […]
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Radiation-hardened Quine is a self-printing program written in Ruby. Even if you delete one character, it still works. To play normally, run rquine.rb and check if the output matches the original code. To play abnormally, prepare a script that deletes one character randomly. Generate a broken program and run it to see an output that’s […]
The author is excited about their upcoming road trip from Atlanta, Georgia to Spanish Fork, Utah and has planned an adventurous route through many exciting destinations. To keep their family entertained, they have created road trip journals and additional materials about each of the stops. In order to make maps for their journals, they explore […]
Logic programming using core.logic in the Clojure community is experiencing a resurgence. It is often used to solve logic puzzles, but one blogger has shown that these types of problems can be solved just as easily or even better with Clojure’s built-in for comprehension. Additionally, core.logic is essentially just a complex DSL for doing exhaustive […]
WordPress.com has added the ability to add paid subscriptions and premium content to its newsletter service. The new feature, available across plans, including free, allows newsletters to be tested out and audiences to be built up before subscription payment is introduced. Paid subscriptions can support writers’ art, writing, or project directly, with the ability to […]
A manuscript discovered by Professor James Wade from the University of Cambridge could provide insight into the sets of medieval minstrels and fill a gap in lost literature, according to an article published in The Review of English Studies. The discovery was made when Wade was studying the 15th-century Heege Manuscript and found a series […]
This article provides a comprehensive list of papers that have had a significant impact on financial markets and quantitative finance. The list includes works from Nobel Prize-winning economists and covers topics such as optimal execution of portfolio transactions, energy prices, option valuation models, portfolio selection, and efficient capital markets. The article also introduces the popular […]
OpenAI is seeking proposals from individuals who have a shared vision for increased cybersecurity, with a preference for AI-driven solutions. A $1 million fund is on offer in increments of $10,000 USD, which will be provided in the form of API credits, direct funding, and equivalents. Strong consideration will be given to practical solutions that […]
Lisp was renowned for groundbreaking language innovations; its contributions permeate modern programming languages. However, the language was unique in its ability to blend code and blur boundaries within a system due to an everything-available-all-the-time approach. Additionally, Lisp became notable for its pervasive interactivity and REPL, allowing for an intuitive, user-friendly interface uncommon in other languages. […]
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