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CERT Polska disclosed six vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS. Two of them allow full device control without a password if SSH is open to the internet. Attacks are already underway.
Read the newsDeepMind's new model issues forecasts every hour with resolution up to 5 km and predicts precipitation more accurately. It has already been integrated into Search, Maps, and Gemini.
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The history of the rivalry between Marvin Minsky and Frank Rosenblatt, who knew each other since school: in 1969, Minsky and Papert published a book showing the limitations of the…
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Hackers gained access to approximately 5,000 Dropbox accounts by exploiting a vulnerability in the Lenovo ID email verification mechanism. Files of a third of those affected may have been viewed…
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On September 6, 1766, John Dalton was born — an English scientist who laid the foundations of atomic theory and first described color blindness based on his own case.
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On September 5, 1977, NASA launched a probe to study Jupiter and Saturn. Today it is in interstellar space and continues to transmit scientific data.
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OpenAI has announced GPT-6 Astra. The new model will first become available to a limited set of organizations, and then to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscribers, as well…
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IBM's first transistorized supercomputer fell short of its goals, lost value, and ended up on lists of major IT failures. But its developments formed the basis of the legendary System/360.
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