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From the Report: "The defense industrial base (DIB) is under attack. Foreign actors are stealing large amounts of sensitive data, trade secrets, and intellectual property every day from DIB firms — contributing to the erosion of the DIB and potentially harming U.S. military capabilities and future U.S. military operations. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)... Continue Reading →
From the Report's SUMMARY: "Members of Congress and Pentagon officials are increasingly focused on developing emerging military technologies to enhance U.S. national security and keep pace with U.S. competitors. The U.S. military has long relied upon technological superiority to ensure its dominance in conflict and to underwrite U.S. national security. In recent years, however, technology... Continue Reading →
"Maliciously constructed Wireshark packet capture files might be used to distribute malware, providing recipients can be tricked into double clicking file URL fields. Variants of the same attack could potentially be thrown against users of the popular network security tool, widely used by security analysts and penetration testers, whether they use Windows or Xubuntu Linux-based systems." Full article:... Continue Reading →
"Critical vulnerabilities in LocalStack, a popular framework for building cloud applications, can be chained to remotely take over locally-run LocalStack instances, security researchers claim. Researchers from Sonarsource have documented how they combined cross-site scripting (XSS) and server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities to achieve OS command injection against the open source Python application." The rest of the article: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/localstack-zero-day-vulnerabilities-chained-to-achieve-remote-takeover-of-local-instances
From the report's Executive Summary: "The rapidly improving ability of computer systems to solve problems and to perform tasks that would otherwise require human intelligence—and in some instances exceed human performance—is world altering. AI technologies are the most powerful tools in generations for expanding knowledge, increasing prosperity, and enriching the human experience. AI is also... Continue Reading →
"A newly launched regex-scanning tool has been used by its architects to unearth multiple regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities in popular NPM, Python, and Ruby dependencies. Released yesterday (March 11), Regexploit extracts regular expressions and scans them for widespread security weaknesses that, if exploited, can “bring a server to its knees”, said Doyensec researcher Ben Caller in... Continue Reading →
Summary of topics covered: The technical specifications of PlayStation 5 and its innovative 'boost' approach to core clocks;The features of the PlayStation 5 GPU;How the SSD helps deliver the next-generation dream;How Sony tackles expandable storage;Unprecedented 3D audio fidelity via the Tempest 3D Audio Engine. Details: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-playstation-5-specs-and-tech-that-deliver-sonys-next-gen-vision
"As we enter a new generation of console gaming with Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, we’ve made a number of technology advancements across hardware and software that will take your gaming experience to the next level. We’ve created the below guide to help familiarize yourself with some of the new terms we’re introducing... Continue Reading →
matrix.reshish.com is the most convenient free online Matrix Calculator. All the basic matrix operations as well as methods for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations are implemented on this site. For methods and operations that require complicated calculations a 'very detailed solution' feature has been made. With the help of this option our calculator solves your task... Continue Reading →
Some introductory textbooks on computer science contain a range of misconceptions about mathematics and mathematicians of the Ancient and Classical Mediterranean Worlds. For example, Schneider and Gersting’s (2013) textbook suggests (on p. 88) that the mathematicians of Ancient Egypt have made contributions, which, together with contributions from latter mathematicians, ultimately led to the development of... Continue Reading →
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