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Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely

Enlarge / Geoffrey Hinton, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute, speaks during The International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) Toronto Global Forum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) According to The New York Times, AI pioneer Dr. Geoffrey Hinton has resigned from Google so...

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Two core Unix-like utilities, sudo and su, are getting rewrites in Rust

Invoking another user’s privileges to execute a command. (credit: Cavan Images/Getty) Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure pieces replaced by memory-safe counterparts. As detailed at Prossimo,...

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Sensitive data is being leaked from servers running Salesforce software

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Servers running software sold by Salesforce are leaking sensitive data managed by government agencies, banks, and other organizations, according to a post published Friday by KrebsOnSecurity. At least five separate sites run by the state of Vermont permitted access to sensitive data to anyone, Brian Krebs reported. The state’s Pandemic Unemployment...