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Skyrmions, tiny magnetic anomalies that arise in two-dimensional materials, can be used to generate true random numbers useful in cryptography and probabilistic computing. So stop rolling dice, and start swirling magnets?
Magnets - is there nothing they can't do?
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Is that any more than "Yet another way of generating true random numbers"? Is it anything beyond "different"? Is it faster? Even more random? Cheaper? Easier to include in a chip?
We have had IoT chips with built-in true random generators for years. There are standards for certifying their true random nature. Fr software purposes, these 'skyrmions' are not needed.
I certainly think they should be researched, though. I think we should allow ourselves to study "the true nature of nature" even without having to justify it through some practical application area such as "cryptography and probabilistic computing".
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Ever found yourself immersed in a web search, only to lose track after an interruption? Because a journey of a thousand pages begins with a single search
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My answer to Engadget is "No". I think Google Journeys is a solution looking for a problem.
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Microsoft's Defender for Windows product is morphing into more of a centralized portal for consumers who want to protect Windows PCs and Macs and iPhone/Android phone devices. Because Mac users have been waiting for an antivirus from Microsoft to protect them
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Low-code and no-code platforms are still likely to have an impact on the way engineers work or the type of work they do. It’s just unclear, at the moment, what the nature and extent of this impact will be. Yes
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We heard that promise with MS Access. Regular users would be building entire systems without coding. It was attempted again with the introduction of the web. We generate a UI for the DB, combine that with some drag&drop to design pages. Again, a miss.
The only no-code platform in existence seems to be MS Paint.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: We heard that promise with MS Access.
One or two of the regulars might be old enough to remember when such promises were made with reference to COBOL.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Beta bootloader is available now, will roll out to all Pi 4 boards later. 23 floppies or 1 DVD?
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Proof-of-concept paper shows how data centers could help manage the grid. You didn't need that data until after peak-time right?
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Why handpicking libraries might be a better choice in the long run. "'Will you walk into my parlour?' said the Spider to the Fly"
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As part of international Safer Internet Day, in the spirit of the theme Together for a Better Internet, Microsoft is releasing the latest results from its sixth annual study Civility, Safety and Interaction Online – 2022, and a newly updated Digital Civility Index (DCI) score. Are they using the same internet I'm on?
Or maybe this is all because Soapbox was shut down?
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Let me guess: the study was conducted by an AI program put together by a new intern just picked up from FB.
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Microsoft does still want you to know that your PC is unsupported when it doesn't meet the system requirements. Does it come with a link to the Surface store?
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What won't be needed? A reminder to not care.
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Fortunately, my Windows 7 computers won't be affected by those warnings.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Graphics giant Nvidia will no longer be spending $40 billion to acquire Arm, parent company SoftBank has announced, citing “significant regulatory challenges.” They're still on the search for a LEG
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Considering how many systens run ARM I am happy that NVidia didn't buy them out, considering that they are partially culpable of the hige price increse in computer parts and GPUs of the last five years.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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imho, exceptionally articulate writing, and includes an interesting interview of the author: [^]
We started work on WASI, the WebAssembly System Interface. The goal of WASI is to create a very modular set of system interfaces. These include all of the low level kinds of interfaces that you'd expect from a system interface layer. It also includes some of the higher level ones too, like neural networks in crypto, and we expect many more of these higher level APIs to be added.
These interfaces need to follow capability based security principles to ensure that we maintain the integrity of the sandbox. For the most part, these interfaces also need to be portable across the major operating systems. Although we are ok with system specific interfaces for some narrowly scoped use cases. It was when we started trying to make this portability work that we started getting into some problems.
These problems started coming to light when we were thinking about a pretty core concept in many operating systems, the filesystem. A lot of code today depends on the filesystem. That code uses the filesystem for lots of different tasks. It's where you persist data. It's where you share data between two different programs running in different processes. It's where you put the code for executables. It's where configuration lives. It's where assets get stored.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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very interesting thanks. Thumbs up from me.
Nick Polyak
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A survey by Neosec finds that APIs are central to almost every business to improve collaboration and innovation and shorten time-to-market. Followed by $50 million in 2023 to secure all those open doors
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Don't forget the ransom payments to recover their data.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Followed by $50 million in 2023 to secure all those open doors
More like be down $100m in direct losses and disaster recovery after they get PWND through all of those open doors.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Using your own products is a great way to gain customer insights, drive innovation, and stay ahead of the competition. Here's how to get your company's dogfooding program off the ground. Mmmm. Extra snouts and offal!
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