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Chris’ Corner: Here’s some things you should know

Fine fine fine, here’s some things you could know if you were hip and into knowing things about building websites well.

Published on: August 05, 2024 | Source: CodePen Blog favicon CodePen Blog

A new generation of African talent brings cutting-edge AI to scientific challenges

Food security, healthcare and exploring the cosmos are among the ways students of a new pan-African Master’s program aspire to apply AI

Published on: August 05, 2024 | Source: DeepMind Blog favicon DeepMind Blog

It’s Time To Talk About β€œCSS5”

Have you ever wondered what happened after CSS3? It’s common knowledge that we never saw CSS4 come after it, yet we have a plethora of new features that have no similar way of defining when they were introduced. The W3C CSS-Next community group is actively searching for better approaches for how we describe the evolution of CSS over time and identify feature sets as effectively as we did with CSS3 way back in 2009 β€”...

Published on: August 05, 2024 | Source: Smashing Magazine favicon Smashing Magazine

AI and automation reducing breach costs – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Organizations that leveraged AI and automation in security prevention cut the cost of a data breach by $2.22 million compared to those that didn't deploy these technologies

Published on: August 02, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 1)

In this two-part series, Andrii Zhdan outlines common challenges faced at the start of a design career and offers advice to smooth your journey based on insights from his experience hiring designers. Learn why mastering design tools is crucial, how to build a strong portfolio, and tips for acing your first interviews.

Published on: August 02, 2024 | Source: Smashing Magazine favicon Smashing Magazine

Mapping the misuse of generative AI

New research analyzes the misuse of multimodal generative AI today, in order to help build safer and more responsible technologies.

Published on: August 02, 2024 | Source: DeepMind Blog favicon DeepMind Blog

Issue 672

Links, links, and more links. That's what this issue is all about!

Published on: August 02, 2024 | Source: iOS Dev Weekly favicon iOS Dev Weekly

Google Cloud Is the New Way to the Cloud

Explore Google Cloud's powerful and versatile services, from AI to data storage, for businesses and developers. Get started for free. Continue reading Google Cloud Is the New Way to the Cloud on SitePoint.

Published on: August 01, 2024 | Source: SitePoint favicon SitePoint

How To Build A Multilingual Website With Nuxt.js

Handling translations for multilingual websites is famously difficult and, yet, crucial for many companies and organizations that serve a global audience. Thankfully, modern tooling abstracts away a great deal of the work, allowing for seamless translations that dynamically update the rendered content on a page, as demonstrated in this step-by-step tutorial.

Published on: August 01, 2024 | Source: Smashing Magazine favicon Smashing Magazine

Sling TV Review: The Best Budget Live TV Streaming Service

Sling TV Blue offers cord-cutters a wealth of live channels for an affordable price, but you may need to bring your own antenna.

Published on: August 01, 2024 | Source: CNET Reviews favicon CNET Reviews

Gemma Scope: helping the safety community shed light on the inner workings of language models

Announcing a comprehensive, open suite of sparse autoencoders for language model interpretability.

Published on: July 31, 2024 | Source: DeepMind Blog favicon DeepMind Blog

Sweet Nostalgia In August (2024 Wallpapers Edition)

Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers might be for you. Designed by the community for the community, they come in versions with and without a calendar for August 2024. Enjoy!

Published on: July 31, 2024 | Source: Smashing Magazine favicon Smashing Magazine

The cyberthreat that drives businesses towards cyber risk insurance

Many smaller organizations are turning to cyber risk insurance, both to protect against the cost of a cyber incident and to use the extensive post-incident services that insurers provide

Published on: July 31, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

Understanding Vultr Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

Explore Vultr CDN's advanced features like CORS, Gzip compression, AI bot blocking, and seamless CMS integration for optimized content delivery. Continue reading Understanding Vultr Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) on SitePoint.

Published on: July 30, 2024 | Source: SitePoint favicon SitePoint

Phishing targeting Polish SMBs continues via ModiLoader

ESET researchers detected multiple, widespread phishing campaigns targeting SMBs in Poland during May 2024, distributing various malware families

Published on: July 30, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

Rethinking The Role Of Your UX Teams And Move Beyond Firefighting

Many UX professionals often find themselves working alone, and usually face more projects impacting user experience than they can handle. In this article, Paul Boag explains how UX teams can be transformed into a significant driver of customer-centric innovation within organizations.

Published on: July 29, 2024 | Source: Smashing Magazine favicon Smashing Magazine

Chris’ Corner: Variables

CSS has a feature called Custom Properties. You know this. People also β€” somewhat interchangeably β€” refer to these as CSS variables. Somehow, that doesn’t bother me, even though I tend to be a stickler about naming things. For instance, there is no such thing as a frontend developer. There are front-end developers who focus […]

Published on: July 29, 2024 | Source: CodePen Blog favicon CodePen Blog

Beware of fake AI tools masking very real malware threats

Ever attuned to the latest trends, cybercriminals distribute malicious tools that pose as ChatGPT, Midjourney and other generative AI assistants

Published on: July 29, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

Telegram for Android hit by a zero-day exploit – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Attackers abusing the EvilVideo vulnerability could share malicious Android payloads via Telegram channels, groups, and chats, all while making them appear as legitimate multimedia files

Published on: July 26, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

Issue 671

There are two types of apps on the visionOS App Store. Will you create an app that makes people reach for the headset?

Published on: July 26, 2024 | Source: iOS Dev Weekly favicon iOS Dev Weekly

Effortless Content Publishing: A Developer’s Guide to Adobe Experience Manager

Empower Your Web Development: Leveraging Adobe’s New Experience Manager for Streamlined SharePoint Content Publishing and Enhanced Workflow Efficiency Continue reading Effortless Content Publishing: A Developer’s Guide to Adobe Experience Manager on SitePoint.

Published on: July 25, 2024 | Source: SitePoint favicon SitePoint

AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems

Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics

Published on: July 25, 2024 | Source: DeepMind Blog favicon DeepMind Blog

The ethereum.org Translatathon is back

The ethereum.org Translatathon is back this August! This is your chance to contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem by translating Ethereum.org from English into your native language. Not only will you be helping to make Ethereum more accessible, but you’ll also have the opportunity to compete for exciting prizes....

Published on: July 25, 2024 | Source: Ethereum Blog favicon Ethereum Blog

Integrating Image-To-Text And Text-To-Speech Models (PartΒ 1)

Joas Pambou built an app that integrates vision language models (VLMs) and text-to-speech (TTS) AI technologies to describe images audibly with speech. This audio description tool can be a big help for people with sight challenges to understand what’s in an image. But how this does it even work? Joas explains how these AI systems work and their potential uses, including how he built the app and ways to further improve...

Published on: July 24, 2024 | Source: Smashing Magazine favicon Smashing Magazine

Building cyber-resilience: Lessons learned from the CrowdStrike incident

Organizations, including those that weren’t struck by the CrowdStrike incident, should resist the temptation to attribute the IT meltdown to exceptional circumstances

Published on: July 23, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

The tap-estry of threats targeting Hamster Kombat players

ESET researchers have discovered threats abusing the success of the Hamster Kombat clicker game

Published on: July 23, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

Cursed tapes: Exploiting the EvilVideo vulnerability on Telegram for Android

ESET researchers discovered a zero-day Telegram for Android exploit that allows sending malicious files disguised as videos

Published on: July 22, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

How a signed driver exposed users to kernel-level threats – Week in Security with Tony Anscombe

A purported ad blocker marketed as a security solution leverages a Microsoft-signed driver that inadvertently exposes victims to dangerous threats

Published on: July 21, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

Beyond the blue screen of death: Why software updates matter

The widespread IT outages triggered by a faulty CrowdStrike update have put software updates in the spotlight. Here’s why you shouldn’t dread them.

Published on: July 19, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

Getting To The Bottom Of Minimum WCAG-Conformant Interactive Element Size

WCAG provides guidance for making interactive elements more accessible by specifying minimum size requirements. In this article, Eric Bailey discusses the nuances of interactive element sizes and clarifies what it looks like to provide accessible interactive experiences using WCAG-compliant target sizes.

Published on: July 19, 2024 | Source: Smashing Magazine favicon Smashing Magazine

The complexities of cybersecurity update processes

If a software update process fails, it can lead to catastrophic consequences, as seen today with widespread blue screens of death blamed on a bad update by CrowdStrike

Published on: July 19, 2024 | Source: WeLiveSecurity favicon WeLiveSecurity

Queues and blank screens at airports as Microsoft IT outage disrupts travel – video

There has been disruption at airports around the world, as well as banks, supermarkets and media outlets, after Windows workstations were hit by a 'blue screen of death'. Long queues of passengers formed in airports in the UK, US, India and Spain as some airlines warned of delays and grounded flightsGlobal Microsoft IT outage: latest updates Continue reading...

Published on: July 19, 2024 | Source: The Guardian Technology favicon The Guardian Technology

Google DeepMind at ICML 2024

Exploring AGI, the challenges of scaling and the future of multimodal generative AI

Published on: July 19, 2024 | Source: DeepMind Blog favicon DeepMind Blog

EpicTopia AI

An AI personal pursuit manager to plan, journal, and grow Discussion | Link

Published on: July 19, 2024 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

Issue 670

Do you want to stay with Swift 5 language mode forever?

Published on: July 19, 2024 | Source: iOS Dev Weekly favicon iOS Dev Weekly