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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Developer Creates 'Regenerative' AI Program That Debugs Python Code
A developer used GPT-4 to create a program called Wolverine that debugs and reruns Python programs until they're fixed.
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My Secret Life As An 11-Year-Old Sysop
Thirty years ago last week, my BBS came online for the first time. I was only 11 years old, working from my dad's Tandy 1800HD laptop and a 2,400 baud modem.
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Network Architect Who Built His Own ISP Is Expanding His Service
Jared Mauch, a Michigan man who built a fiber-to-the-home Internet provider because he couldn't get good broadband service from AT&T or Comcast, is expanding with...
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Researcher Uses 379-Year-Old Algorithm to Crack Crypto Keys
Researcher Hanno Böck reports breaking cryptographic keys generated with older software now owned by technology company Rambus by using Fermat's factorization method...
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Fermilab Exposes Proprietary Data for All to See
Security researchers of the Sakura Samurai ethical hacking group used multiple unsecured entry points to access data, code, messages, and passwords belonging to...
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Contractor Planted Logic Bombs In His Software to Ensure He'd Get New Work
A former contractor for Siemens planted logic bombs in projects he designed that caused them to periodically malfunction. Then wait for a call to come fix things...
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Google Pays $11 Million to Settle Age Discrimination Claims
Google will pay $11 million to settle the claims of 227 people who say they were unfairly denied jobs because of their age, according to court filings.
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ber Escapes Criminal Charges for 2018 Self-Driving Death in Arizona
A prosecutor in Arizona has decided not to press charges against Uber in the March 2018 death of Elaine Herzberg. One of Uber's self-driving cars crashed into Herzberg...
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How the Government Shutdown Is Flushing Away Federal Cyber-Talent
The US Federal government is in the midst of the longest gap in funding for many of its agencies in history. As the "shutdown" extends into a second month, the...
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Facebook Yanks Content Tied to Iranian Effort Due to 'Inauthentic Behavior'
Today, Facebook took down 30 pages, 33 Facebook accounts, three Facebook groups, and 16 Instagram accounts that Facebook's head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel...
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Why a 40-Year-Old SCOTS Ruling Against Software Patents Still Matters Today
Forty years ago this week, in the case of Parker v. Flook, the US Supreme Court came close to banning software patents.
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Supercomputers Are Driving a Revolution in Hurricane Forecasting
A dramatic increase in computing power helps explain the dramatic increase in hurricane forecast accuracy over the past 20 years.
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Amazon Blocks Domain Fronting, Threatens to Shut Down Signal's Account
Last week, Amazon announced a change to an Amazon Web Service designed specifically to end the use of domain fronting—the exploitation of a content delivery network's...
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Despite Backlash, Loot Boxes Could Be Essential to Gaming's Future
With all the controversy, scrutiny, and international regulation randomized video game loot boxes are facing these days, you might think the practice of charging...
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Army Researchers Find the Best Cyber Teams Are Antisocial Cyber Teams
Army researchers have discovered what experienced information security teams already know: actual human interaction isn't a key to success when you already know...
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What the Latest Strike on Syria Succeeded At (and What It Didn't)
On April 13, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom launched the largest barrage of cruise missiles since the opening of the Gulf War.
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What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond ser Data
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...
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Twitter 'Bot' Purge Causes Outcry from Trollerati as Follower Counts Fall
A number of "alt-right," pro-Trump, and self-described conservative social media personalities awoke this morning to find that they had a lot fewer followers on...
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License Expired: The Ars Technica 2018 Deathwatch
Wow, that 2017, though. Quite a year. Let's grab a Juicero and take a moment to reflect on the utter dumpster fires that we've witnessed over the past 12 months...
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Bitcoin's Insane Energy Consumption, Explained
The skyrocketing value of Bitcoin is leading to soaring energy consumption. According to one widely cited website that tracks the subject, the Bitcoin network is...
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