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Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

The Verge

In the process, it copied the “structure, sequence, and organization” of some Java application programming interface (API) packages, which enable basic computing actions. A recurring comparison to keyboards was more sympathetic to Google. It’s difficult to guess how a case will turn out based on the arguments,” she tells The Verge.

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Technology Short Take 131

Scott Lowe

This time around the content is a tad heavy on the security side, but I’ve still managed to pull in articles on networking, cloud computing, applications, and some programming-related content. The article doesn’t go deep on any of them, but does provide some useful information and comparison of the various mechanisms.

Linux 60
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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm.

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Uncovering the power of top-notch LLMs

Dataconomy

A diverse tapestry of participants, ranging from imposing corporate giants to ambitious startups, and extending to the altruistic open-source community, is deeply engrossed in the exciting endeavor to innovate the most advanced large language models. Which are worthy of being crowned among the best large language models?

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How Much Testing Is Enough? Understanding Test Results With bncov And Coverage Analysis

ForAllSecure

” Whether you’re writing unit tests for your programs or finding bugs in closed-source third-party software, knowing what code you have and have not covered is an important piece of information. As a demonstration, let’s walk through an open source project that has built-in test resources.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Biology

ForAllSecure

So it's almost like by pushing yourself and doing something harder than all these other tests become easier in comparison. Ultimately in biology, you're always testing the unknowns, which starts to sound like software application testing, at least a little bit. Vamosi: Remember when I said we were looking at applications inputs.