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In 1900, German mathematician David Hilbert proposed a list of 23 math problems that would change the world. Some have been solved. Others remain. DARPA attempted to update the list a few years back. Here are the highlights. In case you need something to keep you occupied for your next coffee break
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Google’s Project Zero has targetted Microsoft yet again and this time Edge is at fault. I'm sure they have a recommendation for an alternative
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The average professional spends 4 hours per day responding to work emails. That's both insane and understandable. I must be doing it wrong or something
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Emails and regular meetings... biggest enemies of productivity in office... 
(ok, ok, CP is responsible for a tiny % too  )
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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Most digital photocopies used by businesses have internal hard drives that save scans of every copy made. "Born to be a carbon copy man"
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Google says it will take steps to ensure that humans are not fooled when they get called by software bots that can convincingly mimic the human voice. I thought humans didn't use phones anymore, wouldn't that be a clue?
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Now that DeepMind has solved Go, the company is applying DeepMind to navigation But does it know the way to San Jose?
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Location, you say? Navigate this!
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According to Cheddar, it would be a way for the social network's billions of users to make electronic payments on the platform, as well as outside it. Render unto Zuck the things that are Zuck's
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He can Zuck off if he thinks I'd trust him with anything financial.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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After 26 years, Boston Dynamics is finally getting ready to start selling some robots. Frickin' lasers sold separately
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A team of researchers in Germany and at the University of Michigan have demonstrated how infrared laser pulses can shift electrons between two different states, the classic 1 and 0, in a thin sheet of semiconductor. Also, may cause seizures
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"You may never own a quantum computer, but IBM will still let you use one "
"You’ll probably never use quantum hardware yourself,"
..that was last week 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Over 15,000 bricks and a Lego Mindstorms heart bring the game to life. Wizardry!
"There has to be a twist!"
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Hands. Time. Too much or too little; you decide.
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It's hyper-cool but I rather suspect that a classic pin table would have cost less than 15,000 Lego bricks.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Microsoft Principal Software Engineer Adam Tuliper explains the .NET Standard, a formal specification of .NET APIs that are intended to be available on all .NET implementations in order to establish greater uniformity in the .NET ecosystem. .NET Standard, not to be confused with standard .NET (or .NET Core, .NET Dry, or .NET menthol)
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t this moment there’s a proposal to add standardized 2D graphics support to C++, known as P0267 or simply IO2D. It hasn’t been published as TS yet and there’s some controversy around it, but still, the proposal was proven to be implementable on different platforms and the reference implementation is available for test usage. See C draw. Draw C, draw
OK, it's C++. Whatevs, that didn't work into the rhyming scheme
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Sounds like a terrible idea. Create a whole different standard if you want that. You could even call it OpenGL or something like that.
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I disagree, this could really help. College courses can use it to teach basic graphic principles without tying to a particular vendor or implementation. Useful for basic output such as graphs. I don't believe it is intended for use in production graphical applications - simply to allow basic graphics to be available on most platforms.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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CodeAI is able to predict new defects in code and suggest simple fixes for the issue. Does it include the option, "throw this out and start again?"
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A survey compiled last month at the RSA security conference reveals that most companies are still behind with proper security practices, and some of them even intentionally ignore security flaws for various reasons ranging from lack of time to lack of know-how. "For the want of a nail the shoe was lost"
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Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text. I'm using it right now
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
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Interesting.
But you don't really need all of that to send information over plain text. You can use any shape, length or time delay for encoding information. An alternative approach without inventing anything new would be to encode information using font kerning[^] using the standard CSS letter-spacing[^] property. For avoiding really long-distance kerning you could encode as binary–coded ternary[^].
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Academics long ago figured out how to hide information in plain text. Some even manage to hide it so well, nobody understands more than the words.
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