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"According to research published today in Science, a new type of AI was able to solve certain types of CAPTCHA with up to 66.6 percent accuracy. To put this in perspective, humans can solve the same type of CAPTCHA with about 87 percent accuracy due to multiple interpretations of some examples...

My wife and I are a little long in the tooth, both over 60, and we both have artificial grills. A little over two years ago my wife had a tumor removed from her right jawbone. To remove the tumor the dentist had to remove he right lower jaw and replace it with titanium. A few months later...

Ready to knuckle up for Round two? The cure for the new variants is the same as the old variant: Install the security update MS17-010: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx Microsoft had a patch a month before the malware was released in the wild. If you have not...

This morning about 11:00 am, I booted VMWare and Windows 10 Enterprise. Much to my surprise, the OS, though set not to, decided it was going to update. Having been through this merry go round when MS was trying to force everyone on to W10 (they lost that battle too), I let the OS go ahead and...

I just read that there was some kind of attack in London. ! cop stabbed to death, two civilians died from being run over and 20 injured. I wish the best for those that may have been involved. I do not trust the media, therefore can anyone from England, Westminster in particular, shed more...

A researcher has discovered what he calls a "logic vulnerability" that allowed him to create a Python script that is fully capable of bypassing Google's reCAPTCHA fields using another Google service, the Speech Recognition API. The proof-of-concept code the researcher released allows attackers...

All of us have days in which things do not run smoothly; days we wish the dog would bite us, and days that we would like to bite the dog. I have been working for a while on a program in C#. It is incredibly fussy about changes to the user interface. Change one little thing and you better hope...

For the past 10 years, we've operated on the premise that the most important digital metric is the click that refers a person to a website. That click usually comes from a social distribution channel, like Facebook or Twitter, or a search engine, like Google or Bing. But according to industry...

Peter Thiel recently complained parts of Silicon Valley are "hyper-politically correct" about sexual activity, and shared a friend's theory that conservative parts of America tolerate Silicon Valley "because people there just don't have that much sex. They're not having that much fun. " Business...

And here we go. Elon Musk of Telsa and Space-X is thought to be somewhat of a visionary. In California, the state has financed and is building the Hyperloop train system. Is this train running in a near vacuum visionary, or is it a rehash of an old idea? In London, England there was an...

Happy Thanksgiving. Even if it is a lie.

I am looking for an English, a German, and a Spanish thesaurus for Scrapebox Article Scraper plug in. I am current taking the English.bin, after backing it up, posting an article in the editor and clicking "Go to next word. The I enter that word into an online thesaurus, copying the entries to...

Has anybody used Google fiber for SEO? Google just finished the lines running through my yard and had to repair the grass and the sewer line they broke. Now Google is seeking users. $50/mo. for 100 Mbs, and $70 for 1 gig, and 140 for 1 gig plus a tv package. Has anybody used Google fiber for...

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Salt Lake City and asked for a temporary restraining order against a company called Traffic Monsoon and owner Charles David Scoville, 36, of Murray. U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish granted the restraining order...

While perhaps a banned subject because the other thread was closed, I find it absolutely insane that the police in the United States would resort to using bombs to kill suspects. While never wise to kill a cop in the US because all the police will be hunting for you with the intent of killing...

This morning at the Redhat developers summit Microsoft announce the release of the open source .net core that allows the development of .Net project on Windows, Linux or OSX. This announcement was also made on the MSDN blogs...

"A few days after Microsoft released Windows 10 to the public last year, Teri Goldstein’s computer started trying to download and install the new operating system. The update, which she says she didn’t authorize, failed. Instead, the computer she uses to run her Sausalito, Calif., travel-agency...

A judge in Florida is allowing a search censorship lawsuit to proceed against Google. Google removed all of E Ventures Worldwide's listing asserting that E Ventures violated Googles terms of service and policies. E Ventures sued claiming that E Ventures did not violate any of Googles policies...

After disappearing from the underground in 2012, the Hacker e-magazine Phrack is back. A new issue, number 69 (45 hex) has been released. http://phrack.org/issues/69/1.html Phrack is one of the original hacker magazines that was released on BBS's in the 80's. Phrack is generally a decent read.

Intel has just released a monster. The Xeon E5-2600 v4 has 22 cores on a single chip. Drop a pair of these into a suitable configured motherboard and imagine the black magic you could wreck. Of course, a pair of these monsters would cost $8230, but hell you could back these up with triple...