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As is tradition, Google has already shown off at least one of its new Pixel phones before it’s announced. The front page of the Google Store currently features a short video teasing one of the Pixel 10 smartphones the company is announcing on August 20. If you take the webpage literally, then Google’s video is […]
Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found. Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation scraped from […]
Even in well-secured environments, attackers are getting in—not with flashy exploits, but by quietly taking advantage of weak settings, outdated encryption, and trusted tools left unprotected. These attacks don’t depend on zero-days. They work by staying unnoticed—slipping through the cracks in what we monitor and what we assume is safe. What once looked suspicious now […]
If you’ve ever had to set up billing for a SaaS app, you already know the feeling: you’re knee-deep in Stripe’s dashboard, juggling webhooks, syncing subscription data, and somehow duct-taping everything together with your auth and RBAC system. It’s doable. But elegant? Not really. Kinde assumes something different: you’re building a product — and billing […]
You already know that security is important to keep in mind when creating code and maintaining projects. Odds are, you also know that it’s much easier to think about security from the ground up rather than trying to squeeze it in at the end of a project. But did you know that GitHub Actions injections […]
Research scientist John Flournoy sits down with Ryan and Eira to dive into the recent research around developer experience, including the nuances of measuring productivity, the potential reasons for variability in developer performance, and the impacts of collaboration and competition on developer efficiency. Source link
The hypothesis in Ilyas et. al. is a special case of a more general principle that is well accepted in the distributional robustness literature — models lack robustness to distribution shift because they latch onto superficial correlations in the data. Naturally, the same principle also explains adversarial examples because they arise from a worst-case analysis of distribution […]
Microsoft has just signed a deal with Vaulted Deep, paying it to remove 4.9 million metric tons of waste over 12 years sourced from manure, sewage, and agricultural byproducts for injection deep underground. According to Inc., the current cost of CO2 removal with the company is $350 per ton. If you multiply that by Microsoft’s […]
from the injustice-league dept Back when the COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out, to the surprise of nobody intelligent, fraud schemes around vaccination cards began to pop up. Groups, including some doctors, were illegally handing out vaccination cards without actually vaccinating anyone. One of those doctors, according to charges brought by the DOJ, was Michael […]
These offers are available from Amazon as “limited time deals.” This means the deals should end relatively soon. Streaming Stick HD 2025 The Streaming Stick HD 2025 is for those who don’t need 4K resolutions. If you have a Full HD TV, this one will be more than good enough, as it offers a 1,080p […]
