Nope, I am not referring to the sound made by the sudden forcing of breath through one's nose. Snort is an open-source network intrusion detection system (NIDS) and intrusion prevention system (NIPS) developed by Sourcefire, now owned by Cisco. It is...
Figure source: https://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelligence As AI becomes more advanced and complex, humans are finding it increasingly difficult to comprehend how AI arrives at decisions and results. Figure source: https://w...
As Wild West Coder progresses, I've started looking into security and password hashing. This requires a lot of changes to the bits and bytes of data. And I'm not talking about the bits that horses use in the Wild West. Werner Buchholz (happy birthday...
Easter Egg Emacs, a highly customizable and extensible text editor that has been around since the 1970s. It is known for its powerful features and flexibility, making it a favorite among programmers, writers, and other users who spend a significant a...
Pi-hole is not a computing meme, but rather a real and popular open-source network-level advertisement and internet tracker blocking application. Pi-hole helps users control and filter the ads and tracking services that are prevalent on the inter...
The Sun UK Edition Artificial intelligence programs have achieved remarkable success in beating humans in various domains. 1. Chess: IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer to beat a world chess champion when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997. D...
SAI, which stands for Securing Artificial Intelligence, is the standard that the ETSI Industry Specification Group is working on. While it may seem like just another acronym, the concept it represents is critically important. That's why the ETSI Ind...
With the recent resurgence of COVID-19 in various spots, I thought this image was a bit humorous from a networking standpoint.
Tomorrow (14 Oct 2024), an annular solar eclipse can be seen through parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America. An annular solar eclipse differs from a total solar eclipse in that the moon doesn't block the e...
Elon Musk removing headlines from Twitter postsX, formerly Twitter, strips headlines from news story links to improve their look. X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has stopped showing headlines for links posted on the site, after site owner ...
Hey everybody, coming to you from the first day of Cisco Live, straight from the DevNet Zone! We have tons of stuff going on here this week, as detailed in this blog by Ray Stephenson. I've been doing the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live for several years...
Zero-shot learning (ZSL) or Zero-Shot Classification is the ability of predicting a class that wasn’t seen by a model during training. Used in natural language processing, it gives a model the ability to classify new examples not previously seen befo...
In this week’s edition of Tech News of the Week, we will look at a bit of tech history that happened this week several decades ago. On 4 October 1957, the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth was launched. The launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite...
According to the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team’s six years of research, which four key metrics has it determined to be indicators of performance for a software development team? A) Defect Removal Efficiency, Errors Per Function Point,...
It's October, and Halloween is just around the corner. Would you like to carve a virtual pumpkin? You can use the Python Turtle module to do it. Just like carving a real pumpkin, if you haven't done it before, you can learn from someone with experien...
