Bypassing On-Camera Age-Verification Checks Some AI-based video age-verification checks can be fooled with a fake mustache. Tags: AI, biometrics Posted on May...
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In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. To increase transparency, at the end of April, we released...
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m giving a virtual talk on “The Security of Trust in the Age...
When you’re working through a backlog—opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, then back to the list—latency isn’t just a metric. It’s a context switch...
Spotify announced on Thursday that it plans to embrace Apple’s HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) video technology, which Apple recently introduced on Apple Podcasts to...
This year, Keeping said, wildfires on several continents have already scorched an Alaska-sized area of land—more than half a million square miles—50 percent...
Laden with iconic Royal Oak design cues, most notably the octagonal case, eight-screw bezel, and Petite Tapisserie-patterned dial, the strapless design heavily...
We’re partnering with the Gates Foundation to commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health...
How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at...
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While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has yet been nearly as popular or lucrative as code writing...
Most likely, Taiwan will face pressure to move a certain amount of its semiconductor business elsewhere, but the “magic number” that would make that...
InstaFarm’s patented 4-by-4-inch compostable trays come pre-filled with about a half-inch of soil (“sourced from Amish Country in...
Myths about /dev/urandom Note from 2024: This article was published on March 16th, 2014. It is still correct in its discussion of entropy and randomness, but...
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