Severe Vulnerabilities Discovered in Software to Protect Internet Routing

Severe Vulnerabilities Discovered in Software to Protect Internet Routing

Frankfurt and Darmstadt, April 2024 A research team from the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE led by Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann has uncovered 18 vulnerabilities in crucial software components of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). RPKI is an Internet standard meant to protect Internet traffic from being hijacked by hackers. By now, all …

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Internet pioneer Dan Lynch dies in St. Helena at 82

Internet pioneer Dan Lynch dies in St. Helena at 82

ST. HELENA — Dan Lynch, an early internet pioneer who helped develop and popularize the language computers use to communicate, died March 30 at his St. Helena home at age 82. In the 1970s Lynch helped develop TCP/IP protocols, in conjunction with Bolt, Beranek and Newman, while working at Stanford Research Institute International. Lynch was manager …

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The World Doesn’t Need More Journal Apps

The World Doesn’t Need More Journal Apps

You also get no help in selecting these photos. The company does not use AI to prompt or resurface memories, the way that pretty much every other photo app does. “There’s a big difference between passive reminders and actively chronicling the moments that matter to you,” says Retro founder Nathan Sharp in an email. Retro’s …

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Nebraska ‘in a good position’ to deliver internet for all

Nebraska ‘in a good position’ to deliver internet for all

Nebraska is “in a good position” funding-wise to deliver broadband internet to the state’s unserved and underserved areas, opening opportunities in telehealth and precision agriculture, a federal official said last week. Brendan Carr, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, spoke after attending a roundtable meeting on Tuesday hosted by U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., …

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Bids open for companies to provide broadband internet to remaining homes in Burke

Bids open for companies to provide broadband internet to remaining homes in Burke

BY SHARON MCBRAYER Staff Writer Efforts are continuing to bring high-speed internet access to communities across North Carolina, including Burke County, according to the state. Burke County officials have said that 100% of homes and businesses in the county should have access to broadband internet by the end of 2026. The N.C. Department of Information …

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Phase 2 of broadband internet access moving forward

Phase 2 of broadband internet access moving forward

Communities in the East Central, North East, South Central and Southeast parts of Lee County will receive high-speed broadband coverage in the second phase of the expansion projects. In Monday’s meeting, the Lee County Commission voted to move forward with the next phase of the Lee County Broadband Expansion Grant program. Up to $3.4 million …

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Dimensionality reduction for images of IoT using machine learning

Dimensionality reduction for images of IoT using machine learning

This section describes the experiments and the results. Experiment preparation In our approach, a dataset comprising 6000 images has been used to train the autoencoder. The trained model will be used in the experiments to perform dimensionality reduction with the image data at the edge. The training performed on a machine has the following benefits: …

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Can AI do my taxes? Here’s what to know

Can AI do my taxes? Here’s what to know

Jennifer Jolly  |  Special to USA TODAY Use this very specific IRS service to save money during tax time There’s a free tax program, but few people are apparently taking advantage of it. Pennygem’s Justin Kircher has the story. As the clock ticks toward the tax filing deadline, some people might be desperate enough to …

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Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff

Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI 0 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay Inflection AI $650 million, largely to license its artificial intelligence software, alongside its move earlier this week to hire much of the startup’s staff, according to a person familiar with the transaction. Microsoft stunned the AI world on Tuesday with an announcement that it had hired Inflection’s co-founders Mustafa …

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Will the quality of discussions improve if we become an “internet that requires real names”?

Will the quality of discussions improve if we become an “internet that requires real names”?

Mar 17, 2024 12:00:00 As discussions about various topics arise on the Internet every day, some people argue that “the anonymous Internet cannot have constructive discussions, so real names should be required on the Internet.” However, a study that analyzed discussions that occurred in three stages: ‘complete anonymity,’ ‘anonymousness tied to a specific account,’ and …

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