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Um, are you sure we are there yet? For me it seems that the only atoms it has learned are the long-lasting static scenes, rather than eyes or mouths. Maybe it is just a matter of s…

If it runs, it has to be decrypted (at a current level of cryptography); at most it is obfuscated and the access is blocked by some hardware tricks which may be costly to circumven…

Binaries can be converted back to assembly and quite often even back to equivalent C; bugs are most often found by fuzzing (intentional or not) which does not require source code. …

C is not a problem -- you can make a bug in every language. Even with memory safety and a perfect compiler, bug may direct the flow in bad direction (bypassing auth for instance) o…

This is only for certain, verbal questions like antonym of, synonym of, X is to Y as Z to what; for each of them a separate, specific model was built (not that the AI read the ques…

About hard as setting up any UNIX daemon on a few computers. Reliability is a complex topic, depends on what you need -- for an anecdotal evidence I maintain a microscopic (10-20TB…

There are also distributed file systems (MooseFS, Gluster, Ceph) which can duplicate data across physical locations, protect it with checksums, scrub in a distributed manner and au…

We do know what goes on in them. They are just trying (more-less, but it is only a matter of speed) random solutions till good enough, where the human operator decides what is "goo…

This can be solved by containers.

And Akamai's is inspired by http://http2.golang.org/gophertiles (which they acknowledge).

I don't know the details, but this is rather due to fact how docker operates -- there is a daemon that runs with root privs (which are esential to create a container) controlled by…

Why, docker-initiated chroot would prevent FF from acessing any not-FF+libs files, including which this malware steals; on Qubes it would have access to everything user-readable in…

Honestly speaking, "colour" cameras we use every day are also false colour; they shoot 3 monochrome images in red, blue and green chunks of spectrum and mix the whole thing using p…

Isn't it actually written to the EFI system partition on disk rather than flashed into the MB?

As with Java, the problem is not Flash per se but the browser plugin implementing SWF runtime. Flash can and probably will live long and prosper as the Flash "creator" app will swi…

Still, I would read something titled "China's Market Crash and the Man Who Earned >10M$ Having Precisely Predicted It".

It shouldn't be significant because GW is all about how bad Earth is in dissipating energy into space (in comparison to black body), rather than how much energy flows through. Neve…

Also pulling anything from CDN basically means that CDN operator (or anyone that will manage to hack it) can spy on or alter communication between your users and your server.

Even with PZ DNA would have major and minor groove rather than being a symmetrical double helix beloved by virtually all illustrators, sadly also those of pop sci articles...

98% of computer-using population will use whatever comes with the machine; Linux is viable but the hardware vendors are not pushing it, also because of Microsoft lobbying. On the o…

Nope; *ply are implemented as loops, you are only saving time on reallocating memory structures. Real speed-up is gained from using vectorised functions and operators (implemented …

The execution could be better, but it is certainly not a stupid idea. GA code is esentially a concealed, unconditional transmit of the user data to a third party, and allowing this…

The fact that they want beacons suggests that the location information is not as accuracte or reliable as they would like to; quantitative changes also matter.