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This hacker conference installed a literal antivirus monitoring system

“The things we had to consider were typical health and safety, and effective placement (breathing height, multiple monitors for multiple spaces, not near windows/doors),”...

Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.

One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election after an official lost an encryption key needed...

Why you don’t want to get tuberculosis on your penis

Miliary tuberculosis (MTB) is a severe form of tuberculosis in which the instigating bacteria— Mycobacterium tuberculosis or potentially a relative that infects cows and...

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now

We all know streaming services’ usual tricks for making more money: get more subscribers, charge those subscribers more money, and sell ads. But science...

Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser

Chrono Divide is a fan-made project which aims to recreate the original “Red Alert 2” from the “Command & Conquer” series using web technologies....

How to know if your Asus router is one of thousands hacked by China-state hackers

Thousands of Asus routers have been hacked and are under the control of a suspected China-state group that has yet to reveal its intentions...

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

The OEMs disabling codec hardware also comes as associated costs for the international video compression standard are set to increase in January, as licensing...

Infant botulism outbreak doubles; ByHeart confirms bacteria in formula

ByHeart voluntarily recalled two batches of formula on November 8, but said the decision “was made purely out of caution, to go above and...

Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults

Taylor thought there might be a way to put this new hypothesis to the test, particularly in light of numerous experimental studies showing the...

“We’re in an LLM bubble,” Hugging Face CEO says—but not an AI one

Instead, he imagines the eventual outcome to be “a multiplicity of models that are more customized, specialized, and that are going to solve different...

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