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Friday February 28, 2025. 03:21 PM
A new report shows that 87 percent of companies in the US and UK have, or are in the process of, rolling out passkeys with goals tied to improved user experience, enhanced security, and compliance. The research from the FIDO Alliance, along with underwriters Axiad, HID, and...
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Apple has just announced a series of new tools, features and improvements that it says will “help parents protect their kids in a way that is designed around privacy”. One of the biggest changes is an overhaul of the age rating system that is used in the App Store, with...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (emacs, freerdp2, and gst-plugins-good1.0), Fedora (java-17-openjdk, python3.6, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (radare2), SUSE (libX11, openvswitch3, postgresql13, procps, ruby2.5, webkit2gtk3, and xorg-x11-server), and...
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The hits just keep on coming. Mozilla not only changed its Privacy Notice and introduced a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time with some pretty onerous terms, they also removed a rather specific question and answer pair from their page with frequently asked questions ...
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I've heard of Markov Chains, but I didn't understand them until I visited this site that explains them with simple interactive animations. Look at the illustration above. The gray circle can move in the direction of the blue and orange arrows. — Read the rest The post What...
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This week, there will be a great planetary alignment, also known colloquially as a planetary parade, where all the planets in our solar system will be visible simultaneously in the night sky. Weather permitting, just after sunset, all seven planets will be visible in a line...
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A federal judge put the kibosh on Elon Musk's DOGE-led mass firings of federal workers, calling the billionaire's tactics 'illegal.' San Francisco's U.S. District Judge William Alsup said on Thursday that the Office of Personnel Management can hire and fire employees within ...
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I never tire of watching videos of adorable puppies getting bussed to doggy daycare. We've previously shared the bus riding adventures of the precious pups from Skagway, Alaska-based Mo Mountain Mutts—including their sweet tribute to regular rider Bernie.  I'm thrilled to...
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Loosen your belt by a few notches, or, even better, don your comfiest elastic-waist pants, because the first-of-its-kind combination Applebee's-IHOP restaurant is now open near San Antonio, Texas. Culture Map San Antonio provides some details: The dual-branded restaurant...
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Shrek 5 feels overdue, right? Am I alone in this? Well, regardless, we're getting it anyway, after years of having to sustain ourselves on fan remakes and surprisingly great Puss in Boots-focused spinoffs. (Go watch The Last Wish.) Although rumors have swirled for a while,...
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From the excellent Boomerang newsletter (subscribe at their wehsite), here's a recommendations for the Sly & The Family Stone documentary streaming on Hulu: Your next TV-night absolutely needs to include the just-dropped documentary SLY LIVES! (AKA The Burden of Black...
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Canadian surgeons are giving new meaning to the term 'eye teeth' by transplanting patients' own teeth into their eyes to restore vision. The surgery, known as osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis (OOKP), involves removing a patient's canine tooth, installing a plastic optical lens...
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As the European Union updated the Network and Information Security (NIS 2) Directive in October last year, many companies were asking: what does it take to comply with this sweeping new regulation? Designed to tighten cybersecurity across critical industries, NIS 2 goes...
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Dear Skype, please sit down. We found something in a routine scan of your source code, and we have to tell you, it doesn't look good. Take a look for yourself: 'Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. — Read the rest The post Microsoft finally putting Skype out...
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An 'unknown disease' continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 60 people and infecting 1,000 others since it first broke out in January, reports CBS News. Even more concerning, the majority of deaths have taken only 48 hours from when symptoms ...
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AI and robots need data — lots of it. Companies that have millions of users have an advantage in this data collection, because they can use the data of their customers.  A well-known example is Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 service, which I recently lambasted. reCAPTCHA v2...
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Blockchain technology has often been touted as a game changer for the security of transactions in different fields. However, many organizations still don't full appreciate its value or how to incorporate it into their applications. We spoke to Lee Jacobson, senior vice...
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Boris Spassky, the World Chess Champion who faced Bobby Fischer in the legendary 'Match of the Century,' died Thursday at age 88. Spassky was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where he became a grandmaster at 18. He claimed the world championship in 1969 and held it...
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TL;DR: Invest in your kiddo's education with a refurbished Lenovo 10e 10.1' Chromebook for $49.99. The days of high prices on tablets are over: get this refurbished Lenovo Chromebook for just $49.99. The Lenovo 10e 10.1' Chromebook (2021) is the perfect starter tablet for...
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There’s lots to do in this edition of the Python Report: Do more than one thing with Python’s async. Do the math faster in Python with NumPy. Do Python in Visual Studio Code, and do it the right way with our get-started guide. And do use Python’s new structural pattern ...
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