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Mitigating Advanced Threats with Scalable and Automated Malware Analysis: An interview of Chad Loeven and Mike Hylton

CTOvision

Scalable automated malware analysis has become a critical component of enterprise defense. When properly implemented it can be key to mitigating malware threats that otherwise bypass perimeter defenses. In this post we provide context enterprise architects and security engineers can use to dramatically scale their ability to conduct malware analysis.

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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. While it looks like color.js has been updated to a working version, faker.js still appears to be affected, but the issue can be worked around by downgrading to a previous vers

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now fully deployed

TechSpot

The 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror had to be folded to fit inside the nose cone of the rocket that carried it to space. The maneuver came after several other critical spacecraft deployments including the unfurling of the five-layer sunshield, and completes the final stage of all major deployments.

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Report: 69% of enterprises embrace quantum computing

Venture Beast

The findings suggest confidence among enterprise leaders that quantum computing is no longer a distant reality, but a near-term opportunity. Read More.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Meta's Head of PR Leaves a Company on Fire

Gizmodo

It’s hard to blame someone for running away from a burning building. The same can be applied to Silicon Valley, where the head of public relations at Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is stepping down. Read more.

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The ambient intelligence decade

Venture Beast

By 2030, the twin advances of the metaverse and ambient intelligence will be a pervasive part of our lives. Read More.

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QNAP issues ransomware warning to users: secure your devices or disconnect unprotected NAS

TechSpot

A security statement released by the storage appliance provider on Friday issued very clear instruction to QNAP NAS users: take immediate action to secure your network appliances or take them offline. The attacks, which appear to indiscriminately target any network device exposed to the Internet, pose the most risk to.

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Dota: Dragon's Blood is Back, and Boy, Does It Have Some Dragons

Gizmodo

When it comes to Netflix and their video game adaptations , Arcane , Castlevania and The Witcher instantly spring to mind. But Dota: Dragon’s Blood , the anime based on Valve’s 2013 MOBA Dota 2 , was a pretty entertaining romp when it premiered last year. Good thing, then, that new episodes are coming next week to give… Read more.

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A pair of AMD Zen 4 engineering samples have appeared online

TechSpot

A pair of engineering samples have been found in the public database of the MilkyWay@home project, which is using distributed computing to create a model of our galaxy. They both ran the application for a few days in late December.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home's VFX Team on Recreating Its Vintage Villains

Gizmodo

Visual effects make up a lot of the MCU movies, but Spider-Man: No Way Home had its work cut out for it. Bringing back five villains from previous movies, plus two of the former Spider-Men was quite an undertaking, and VFX supervisor Kelly Port recently spoke about the process of bringing these characters back for the… Read more.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Trimming the waste with management and modernization

Venture Beast

Waste management is an enormous challenge. Businesses should leverage technology to modernize processes, becoming efficient and competitive. Read More.

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The Bob's Burgers Movie Has Quite the Delightful Premise

Gizmodo

For Bob’s Burgers fans, the wait for the theatrical movie has been quite a lengthy one. The movie was originally announced in 2017 with a planned release for 2020 , but the merger between Disney and Fox has meant the latter company’s movies have been in a strange state of limbo. There would be few or no updates at all… Read more.

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Manage Oracle Fusion Application Scoped Setups with FlexDeploy

Flexagon

Oracle’s Functional Setup Manager (FSM) UI provides export/import capabilities to move setups and other configurations from one environment to another, however it requires a user to manually invoke the move. While not a challenging task, it can be time consuming to manually submit the export process, monitor, download the artifact file, and do the reverse.

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FAA Releases List of 50 Airports That Will Have ‘Buffer Zones’ When AT&T and Verizon Roll Out 5G

Gizmodo

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday published a list of the 50 U.S. airports that will have buffer zones, or areas where AT&T and Verizon have agreed to limit 5G signals for six months. Read more.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Manage Oracle Fusion Application Fast Formula Deployments with FlexDeploy

Flexagon

For Oracle Cloud Application users, fast formulas are a neat feature that serve as a sort of shortcut. Fast formulas are generic expressions of calculations or comparisons you need done regularly in your Oracle application. They typically involve basic mathematical functions and are easy to define using English words versus programming jargon. Formulas take input.

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Turkmenistan Plans to Close its Blazing 'Gateway to Hell'

Gizmodo

These past few years have felt like a trial run of living through the end times. Thankfully, 2022 seems like it’s off to a promising start: Turkmenistan plans to close the blazing natural gas crater known as the “Gateway to Hell,” presumably to keep the other three horsemen of the apocalypse from following their buddy… Read more.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 2, 2022

GeekWire

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 2, 2022. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. UW computer science school denounces retired professor’s tweet on women hires.

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5 Superhero Movies with Delays as Bad as Morbius

Gizmodo

The movie community wept when news broke earlier this week that Jared Leto’s Morbius was delayed to April. Marvel’s vampiric antihero is meant to be the next addition to Spider-Man’s cinematic world, which has expanded in some interesting ways recently, but it just hasn’t come to fruition for the frontman of 30… Read more.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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The House of Mouse Could Be Headed for the Metaverse

Gizmodo

The metaverse may be headed to a Disney theme park near you. Read more.

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