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Intel’s next-generation Sapphire Rapids-based data center processors finally have time to release. The chip giant has announced that it will hold a data center launch event on January 10, 2023, which will include fourth-generation Sapphire Rapids-based Xeon processors. Sapphire Rapids CPUs were first scheduled to be released in mid-2021, then delayed to the first quarter […]

The automated risk detection platform of the Python package repository PyPI found dozens of newly released malicious packages. The attacker copies an existing legitimate package and injects a malicious __import__ statement in an attempt to plant the malicious program W4SP Stealer. The advantage of copying legitimate packages is that since the landing pages for PyPI

The latest figures from the Canadian Census Agency show that more than one-fifth of the population is an immigrant. There are still a lot of job openings in Canada, and the country has set a record-breaking immigration target for the next three years — attracting 1.45 million immigrants between 2023 and 2025. The Canadian government’s

Statistics from Statcounter for October show that Windows 11 still lags far behind Windows 10 in popularity a year after its release. The current market share of Windows 11 is 15.44%, an increase of 1.83% from the previous month, while the market share of Windows 10 is 71.29%, only a slight decrease of 0.59% from

An anonymous reader wrote “At 6:14 am Chile time on October 29th, the Atacama Submillimeter Interferometer Array Telescope suffered a severe cyber attack. The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Interferometer Array Telescope (ALMA) is the world’s The largest, highest and most sensitive millimeter-wave/submillimeter-wave interference array in the world is located in the Atacama Desert, Chile. ALMA is

Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind announced earlier this year AlphaFold, an AI system for predicting protein structures. Now researchers at social networking giant Meta/Facebook have done similar work, using a language model trained on sequences of known protein structures and then using it to predict the structures of other proteins. The researchers call their AI model

Last week, if you searched for the well-known open source image editing software GIMP on Google, it would display an advertisement calling itself GIMP.org, but clicking on the advertisement would lead to a phishing website disguised as GIMP instead of the real official website. GIMP is a malicious program. The attackers used the domain names

Meta/Facebook has announced EnCodec, a new AI-powered audio codec, compressed to one-tenth the size of the MP3 file format. Meta says the technology can significantly improve the sound quality of speech at low bandwidths. Meta also published the paper “High Fidelity Neural Audio Compression” on the preprint platform arxiv. The new method consists of three

Unicom Ventures and Tencent Industrial Investment have established a mixed-ownership company. The joint venture intends to principally engage in content distribution network (CDN) and edge computing businesses. After the transaction is completed, China Unicom Ventures, Tencent Industrial Investment, and relevant employee stock ownership platforms will hold 48%, 42%, and 10% of the joint venture, respectively,

TomTom, the maker of automotive GPS navigation systems, has announced a partnership with open source mapping project OpenStreetMap to launch a new map platform called TomTom Maps Platform that will set a new standard for mapping. By partnering with OpenStreetMap, the new map will be able to cover a larger area, providing more detail and

British regulator Ofcom has sounded the death knell for fax machines, as it begins to repeal legislation related to the use of fax machines. Commercialized by Xerox in 1964, and widely used by businesses around the world since the 1980s, fax machines have been replaced by email, scanners, cloud-based faxing, and instant messaging services. Ofcom

Nearly half of adults in the U.S. try to lose weight each year, and most of them try to eat more fruits, vegetables and salads, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A healthy diet is essential for heart, physical health, and longevity. The American Heart Association’s 2021 dietary guidelines recommend that adults

Hangouts, one of the many messaging apps Google tried, officially died on November 1. Hangouts users will then be redirected to Google Chat, which replaces it, and users will still be able to download their own data using Google Takeout until January 1 next year. Google currently has two incompatible messaging products: Google Chat and