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TikTok drama channels are turning into online intelligence agents

The Verge

The app has become home to a teenage version of the OSINT (or “open source intelligence”) community, made famous by outlets like the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR Lab) or investigative site Bellingcat. There’s an old expression that ‘bad gas travels fast in a small town.’ But according to Emerson T.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

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for more information on this open source project, and to test out the concept itself. So what we do in the open source systems is we spool that table to a column store. The one we use is Vertica because Mike Stonebreaker developed it, but you can use open source ones like redshift or snowflake.

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How Australia became the test bed for tech regulation

The Verge

But from a personal perspective, I haven’t had to be on a plane every week or every month to go see people in the United States, or travel around the world and see our staff. Because we felt that, back then, there was software that cost $100,000 to install, and there was free software, open-source, but there was really nothing in between.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She travels across the globe to present speeches and lead workshops. One of her favorite poems is “Song of the Open Road” by Walt Whitman, a poem that embraces travelling the road into the future. Her latest book is Gaia’s Dance (2014), a story which traces the human evolutionary trajectory from the ancient past into the future.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Latency In Live Music Online

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Problem came to the fore with COVID, when people where not in general traveling, let alone being in the same room with another person not from their household. One of the first ones was JamKazam , a commercial product, followed pretty quickly by an open source project called Jamulus. play, play music together.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Why Are Blue Team Hackers More L33T?

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I should say in those specific environments not that they're not familiar with securing or attacking, but, in my experience, I've just seen them where it's more of like an ad hoc type, maybe a traveling purple team, if you will. And this was around the time of a tool called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Why Are Blue Team Hackers More L33T?

ForAllSecure

I should say in those specific environments not that they're not familiar with securing or attacking, but, in my experience, I've just seen them where it's more of like an ad hoc type, maybe a traveling purple team, if you will. And this was around the time of a tool called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon.

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