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I will unofficially update this website on random dates within any random time interval.

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

‘I cried all night’: Millions of Chinese lose access to ‘World of Warcraft’ and other hit games



Millions of players in China have lost access to the iconic “World of Warcraft” franchise and other popular video games, as Blizzard Entertainment’s servers in the country went offline after two decades.

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Sunday, January 22, 2023

InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog



As a current Google Cloud Platform defender, and former Microsoft Azure defender, I appreciate any tool or capability intended to provide multi-cloud protection. As noted via LinkedIn, Toni announced the release of Prowler v3 just before Christmas.

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Friday, January 20, 2023

1923 cartoon eerily predicted 2023’s AI art generators



In 1923, an editorial cartoonist named H.T. Webster drew a humorous cartoon for the New York World newspaper depicting a fictional 2023 machine that would generate ideas and draw them as cartoons automatically.

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Thursday, January 19, 2023

Boston Dynamics' new Atlas video shows how the robot could help construction workers



Editor's take: Watching the evolution of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot will likely elicit one of two feelings: wonder at how the machine is becoming more human-like in its abilities that might benefit the world, or terror as we view the first stage of a machine that could, at best, take jobs and, at

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

New solution secures encrypted data for a post-quantum world



The advent of quantum computing offers a serious threat to the safety of encrypted information.

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Methodology Trial





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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Wyoming Republicans take a stand, want to ban electric cars



Legislators of the nation's least-populous state are taking a brave stand against modernity and climate action.

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