Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity

Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives. The technique, named FROST (fingerprinting remotely using OPFS-based SSD timing), allows ...

Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in the wild

Google has released emergency updates to patch another Chrome zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild, the ...
Simon Fraser University

Version 8 Asynchronous Task Statements

Two new statements enable you to monitor asynchronous tasks that are executed in an RSUBMIT command or statement. WAITFOR allows you to wait for any or all of a list of asynchronous tasks that are ...
Washington Times

Humanitarian aid ship from Mexico docks in Havana as U.S.-Cuba tensions escalate

HAVANA — A ship laden with humanitarian aid from the governments of Mexico and Uruguay arrived Monday in Havana to help ease Cuba’s spiraling crises. The ship, which departed from a Mexican port, ...
Microsoft

Inventive ways people are using AI

People everywhere are using AI to get creative, spend more time with loved ones and ditch mundane tasks — all things they wouldn’t have even imagined a year ago, before generative AI became widely ...
BMJ

IOC consensus statement: dietary supplements and the high-performance athlete

Nutrition usually makes a small but potentially valuable contribution to successful performance in elite athletes, and dietary supplements can make a minor contribution to this nutrition programme.
InfoWorld

Do more with Python’s new built-in async programming library

There’s lots to do in this edition of the Python Report: Do more than one thing with Python’s async. Do the math faster in Python with NumPy. Do Python in Visual Studio Code, and do it the right way ...