Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...
The New York Times

How The Times Analyzed the S.E.C.’s Cryptocurrency Enforcement

The New York Times set out to understand — and quantify — just how much things had changed within the agency after President Trump resumed office. A portrait array in the lobby of the Securities and ...
CNN

Rubio directs diplomats to return to using Times New Roman, undoing Biden-era switch to Calibri

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to go back to using Times New Roman typeface as the standard for official papers, a spokesperson told CNN, in a reversal of the ...
Reuters

Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony ...
New York Post

Leavitt blasts NY Times reporter for Trump health story, recalling how she covered Biden decline: ‘Are you kidding me?’

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted a New York Times reporter over a story she co-authored last week, painting President Trump as a man in decline. The article described Trump, 79, ...
Los Angeles Times

EV sticker shock: Solo drivers using California carpool lanes face hefty fines

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Solo EV drivers using California carpool lanes will face ticketing beginning Monday as the perk disappears. Though ...
IEEE

Improved Modular Multiplication Algorithms Using Solely IEEE 754 Binary Floating-Point Operations

Abstract: In this paper, we propose three modular multiplication algorithms that use only the IEEE 754 binary floating-point operations. Several previous studies have used floating-point operations to ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Sun-Times demands DHS remove social posts using its photos without permission

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New Scientist

Analogue computers could train AI 1000 times faster and cut energy use

Analogue computers that rapidly solve a key type of equation used in training artificial intelligence models could offer a potential solution to the growing energy consumption in data centres caused ...
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Meet the Man Who Won the Lottery 14 Times By Using Simple Math

Dirt from Trump’s ballroom project was trucked to a D.C. golf course. Why? Everyone obsessed with Billie Eilish's net worth right now for key reason Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices in tour ...
InfoWorld

What makes JavaScript great

JavaScript’s low bar to entry has resulted in one of the richest programming language ecosystems in the world. This month’s report celebrates the bounty, while also highlighting a recent example of ...