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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MLC LLM , from developers of Web LLM , allows many different combinations of hardware and operating systems to run small large language models entirely locally. It supports iPhones, Windows, Linux, MacOS, and web browsers. PyPI has been plagued with malware submissions, account takeovers, and other security issues. Or Gamedonia?

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2023

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Programming The free, open source Godot game engine is proving to be an alternative to Unity. OpenTofu , OpenTF’s fork of Hashicorp’s Terraform, has been backed by the Linux Foundation and adopted by several major enterprises. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware. A nice piece of analysis.

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The Right Approach to Securing 5G

Palo Alto Networks

Based on the numerous “proof of concept” (POC) tests we have conducted around the world, we discovered that IoT botnet activity makes up a very large proportion of the malware in mobile networks today. Challenge 1: Security in the Internet of Connected Things.

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Radar trends to watch: April 2022

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An unusual form of matter known as spin glass can potentially allow the implementation of neural network algorithms in hardware. For the past 70 years, computing has been dominated by general-purpose hardware: machines designed to run any code. Corporate contact forms are replacing email as a vector for transmitting malware.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Bryan Cantrill on Rust and the future of low latency embedded systems : Rust is the first language since C to live at the border between hardware and software. Chaos is new malware that can infect both Windows and Linux devices, including routers, firewalls, and other networking hardware. Has anyone done this with Emacs?

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Radar trends to watch: May 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It doesn’t sound like it should work, but playing games with the error correction built into the standard allows the construction of animated QR codes. The Qubit Game lets players “build” a quantum computer, starting with a single qubit. The malware targets WatchGuard firewalls and Asus routers.

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Defending against ransomware is all about the basics

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

An attacker plants malware on your system that encrypts all the files, making your system useless, then offers to sell you the key you need to decrypt the files. An email to a victim entices them to open an attachment or to visit a website that installs malware. The concept behind ransomware is simple. How an attack begins.

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