For the past two years we've been tinkering with a proof-of-concept decryptor for the Phobos family ransomware. It works, but is impractical to use for reasons we'll explain here. Consequently, we've been unable to use it to help a real-world victim so far.…

Every now and then, I like to focus on game covers here on this site. I started with a series of articles in Swedish that I never finished (there will be a second part though), and I recently wonde…

A recurring comment from people who post stuff on the internet and give Mastodon/fediverse a try is the (high) engagement and reach they get there.
Even with much smaller audiences than at Twitter, posts usually get more likes, “boosts” (RTs), and clicks.…

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Investigators are getting better at cracking the hackers

British political controversy

Sustainable dried SCOBY mats are lighter, cheaper, and more flexible than plastics.

Encoder for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models

Experts regard ChatGPT-3 and Google’s LaMDA as equally unimpressive examples of so-called AI. Investors don't seem to understand this

Gluon is a new high-performance IMAP library that is open source, RFC compliant, and actively maintained and improved by the Proton Mail team.

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson gently criticized cryptocurrency in games in his DICE 2023 keynote.

His original books will now be printed unaltered, after the decision to update them was criticised.

Fine abstract art. Guaranteed to be painted with no particular artistic intent.

Workers are getting fired on the basis of metrics that don’t make any sense.

Checkmarx researchers observed a sudden surge of over 15,000 phishing packages flooding NPM, the world's largest free software registry, for a few hours on Feb. 20 and 21.

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If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.

Today, we’re releasing our LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) foundational model with a gated release. LLaMA is more efficient and competitive with previously published models of a similar size on existing benchmarks.

Nature - In a superconducting quantum processor, error suppression improved as the system size was increased.

Telecom equipment maker Ericsson will lay off 8,500 employees globally as part of its plan to cut costs, a memo sent to employees and seen by Reuters said.