Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner [Mon Feb 19 2024]

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Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation

 
 

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Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 3,000-pound blade server?

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Japan's Rakuten plans satellite cell service across its islands from 2026

Launch delays persist, but test space-based voice calls work

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IonQ opens first US quantum factory amid VC cash crunch

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Dell staff not alone in being squeezed to reduce remote work

3 in 5 workers getting strict orders to return to office and something is going to give

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Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived

Ganja believe it? The customer couldn't when their box went up in smoke

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India seeks Artificial Wisdom and plans city-scale digital twin

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India won't become a semiconductor superpower anytime soon, says think tank

$10 billion subsidies predicted to deliver just five modest fabs by 2029

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Feds post $15 million bounty for info on ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware crew

ALSO: EncroChat crims still getting busted; ransomware takes down CO public defenders office; and crit vulns

How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites

We speak to professor who with colleagues tooled up OpenAI's GPT-4 and other neural nets

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Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others

Cool, but it's 2024 – needs more hype, hand wringing, and flashy staged demos to be proper ML

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Zeus, IcedID malware kingpin faces 40 years in slammer

Nearly a decade on the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List after getting banks to empty vics' accounts

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Fakers face the wrath of Khan

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Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms

Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying?

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Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords

Project hails from its original motherland of Russia

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Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches

Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too

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Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation

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Apple makes it official: No Home Screen web apps in European Union

iBiz expresses regret for the impact of its entirely avoidable decision

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Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G

One giant leap for astronaut medicine

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OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped

121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once

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NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space

Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times

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