Day: December 4, 2018

    • Microsoft open sources the Open Neural Network Exchange runtime, a key part of Windows ML platform, and makes Azure Machine Learning service generally available (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

    Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft open sources the Open Neural Network Exchange runtime, a key part of Windows ML platform, and makes Azure Machine Learning service generally available  —  Following its alliance with Facebook around the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Microsoft is open-sourcing the ONNX runtime engine for machine learning. Microsoft open sources

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    • Epic Games announces its dev-friendly Steam competitor

    Epic Games, the company behind the wildly successful Fortnite, today revealed it’s opening its own digital game storefront. The new store will offer developers an 88 percent share of revenue, in contrast to Valve’s industry-standard 70 percent. Calling it a “Steam rival” would be more than just a trite comparison, as Epic’s own announcement features a chart

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    • Sources: officials at NRCC, the House GOP's campaign arm, had several months' worth of emails stolen in 2018 by what some think was a nation-state hacker (Politico)

    Politico: Sources: officials at NRCC, the House GOP’s campaign arm, had several months’ worth of emails stolen in 2018 by what some think was a nation-state hacker  —  Republican leaders were not informed until POLITICO contacted committee officials about the incident. Sources: officials at NRCC, the House GOP’s campaign arm, had several months’ worth of

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    • 415,000 routers worldwide hijacked to secretly mine cryptocurrency

    Researchers have discovered over 415,000 routers across the globe have been infected with malware designed to steal their computing power and secretly mine cryptocurrency. The attack, which is still ongoing, affects MikroTik routers in particular. For the record, the string of crypto-jacking attacks on the brand first began in August, when security experts discovered over

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    • Blockchain startups forced to lay off staff to survive the bear market

    The bear market – which many optimistically hoped would only span a few months – has swallowed the entire year, and with it, a string of cryptocurrency projects The latest casualty is ETCDEV, the development team for much of the software adopted by notable alt-coin Ethereum Classic. According to a recent post, the group simply does not

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    • Google launches Flutter 1.0, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK, as Square announces two new Flutter SDKs for easy payments (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

    Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Google launches Flutter 1.0, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK, as Square announces two new Flutter SDKs for easy payments  —  At Flutter Live in London today, Google launched version 1.0 of Flutter, the company’s open source mobile UI framework that helps developers build native interfaces for Android and iOS.

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    • Google launches Flutter 1.0 — its fast, powerful cross-platform app UI toolkit

    Today, at the Flutter Live event in London, Google announced the first stable release of Flutter, its cross-platform UI toolkit. Flutter is intended to help developers build attractive, native app experiences from a single codebase. While cross-platform UI toolkits are nothing new, Flutter is unique in how it emphasizes speed and developer control above all else.

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    The Circuit Sculpture Contest

    Many artists are inseparably associated with their medium: Vincent Van Gogh had oil paint, Auguste Rodin had bronze, and Banksy has the spraycan and stencil. You have ICs, passives, wire, and solder. So often electronics are hidden away, but not today! We want to see you build electronic circuits that are beautiful in and of

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    Go Up A Creek Without A Paddle

    Kayaks are a some of the most versatile watercraft around. You can fish from them, go on backpacking trips, or just cruise around your local lake for a few hours. They’re inexpensive, lightweight, don’t require fuel, and typically don’t require a license or insurance to operate. They also make a great platform for a solar-powered boat

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    Hackaday Visits the Electric City

    Much to the chagrin of local historians, the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania is today best known as the setting for the American version of The Office. But while the exploits of Dunder Mifflin’s best and brightest might make for a good Netflix binge, there’s a lot more to the historic city than the fictional paper company.

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    Microsoft's 'Centaurus' device is yet another potential piece of its Chromebook-compete strategy

    Microsoft’s successor to its ‘Andromeda’ dual-screened foldable device is codenamed ‘Centaurus.’ It’s just one element of Microsoft’s evolving Chromebook-compete strategy. Microsoft’s ‘Centaurus’ device is yet another potential piece of its Chromebook-compete strategy Source: ZDNet Microsoft

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    • Top IoT messaging protocols are laughably insecure, Trend Micro research shows

    Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro today published a report on the state of IoT security. The company found that two of the leading machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols have inherent design issues, and are frequently deployed in an insecure manner. According to Trend Micro’s report, The Fragility of Industrial IoT’s Data Backbone, the issues lie with two

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    • Munich-based Freeletics, which provides AI-powered mobile fitness plans tailored to individual users, raises $45M Series A (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)

    Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Munich-based Freeletics, which provides AI-powered mobile fitness plans tailored to individual users, raises $45M Series A  —  One of Europe’s most popular fitness applications is poised to flourish in the U.S. market with the help of several Los Angeles-based investors. Munich-based Freeletics, which provides AI-powered mobile fitness plans tailored to individual

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