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Sally Floyd, one of the inventors of Random Early Detection (RED), which helps regulate network traffic, died on August 25 at age 69 (Katie Hafner/New York Times)

Katie Hafner / New York Times: Sally Floyd, one of the inventors of Random Early Detection (RED), which helps regulate network traffic, died on August 25 at age 69  —  In the early 1990s, Dr. Floyd was one of the inventors of Random Early Detection, which continues to play a vital role in the stability

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Bitcoin whale moves gooch-tingling ONE BILLION DOLLARS

A cryptocurrency whale has moved a ball-twisting 94,504 BTC (worth over one billion dollars) — paying just $700 in Bitcoin network fees. 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 94,504 #BTC (1,018,147,922 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet Tx: https://t.co/VWb8slswa8 — Whale Alert (@whale_alert) September 6, 2019 Twitter-based transaction monitor @whale_alert signalled the

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Facebook wants to combat deepfakes by making its own

{$inline_image}With algorithmically-generated fabricated videos, otherwise called deepfakes, on the rise, Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft and seven academic institutions in the US for a Deepfake Detection Challenge. The contest — meant to develop technology for detecting deepfakes and prevent people from falling prey to misinformation — is expected to from late 2019 until spring of

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