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Response to the PHP2Shell Vulnerability
Approximately two weeks ago, on October 20th, an extremely serious security flaw was disclosed for PHP—the software that powers the vast majority of web servers and roughly 70%...
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It’s Official - We’re Expanding
Our occasional collaborator and co-host Dr. Nadine Robinson is now formally working with the Smartypants team to help communicators and adminstrative staff make safe and...
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The Battle of the Bots…And Best Tools for Transcripts
All of the major tech players are releasing every more powerful A.I. tools. While many freelancers just want a reliable way to create transcripts from recordings.
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AI in Everyday Life - Part 1 of 5
The first of five two-hour sessions about AI in Everyday Life. Discussions, demostrations, relevant videos and video clips, documents and some very recent news about the world...
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An Overview of AI in Everyday Life for SCANS (Senior Collage Association of Nova Scotia)
AI seems like it just arrived, when in fact it's pretty much everywhere. This hour-long overview was a pre-amble to a 10-hour course that went far and wide to find real-world...
Continue ReadingIncompetent Latvian Spammer
Someone (I forget who) once said "people generally don't become spammers because they've lost their job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory" - in other words, spammers tend not to be...
Continue ReadingDjanglebert Dinglebart and MyLife.com
When I first heard about MyLife.com, the word 'scam' came to mind. MyLife.com is the web site that advertises that somebody is searching for you and if you just type in your name and...
Continue ReadingVyew: Free Alternative to Dimdim
Online meeting software is fairly common today, there are numerous services like WebEx and GoToMeeting that combine shared document editing/whiteboard/video conferencing/screen...
Continue ReadingLet Them Bake Bread
I walk down the aisles of the grocery store - overflowing with a cornucopia of choices - and then I see the bread: mainly puffy bags of nothingness that seem to be inexpensive, claim...
Continue ReadingFacebook's free speech smackdown of Canadian political discussion
While most of the focus around free speech recently has been on the Wikileaks dump of diplomatic notes and cables, Facebook has quietly limited the free speech of a popular page called...
Continue ReadingSpammers in Denial - UK Food Exports
While George is really the anti-spam expert around here, there is one amusing spam trend I've noticed recently. For instance, today I received some spam from UK Food Exports (no, I'm...
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