Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)
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Evangelos Bitsikas, who is pursuing a PhD in cybersecurity at the Northwestern University in the US, applied a new machine-learning program to data gleaned from the SMS system of mobile devices....
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I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.
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AMD is releasing (what appears to be, still need all the reviews to come in) a beast of a mobile processor. 16 cores, 32 threads, and 128MB of L3 cache.
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