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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 ReadingAARP Spamming Canadians?
The American Association of Retired People is the latest spammer to hit an email address here that usually just gets links to porn or pitches from Nigerian lawyers offering to split...
Continue ReadingMichelle Simson, Member of Parliament 3.0
I don't know much about Scarborough Southwest MP Michelle Simson. What I know is that she promised - and kept it - to put details of how she spent taxpayers' dollars online.
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Continue Reading"Proven the Fastest"?
Remember those Rogers "Proven the Fastest" ads that were popping up everywhere not too long ago? For some strange reason, those ads started disappearing right around the time that...
Continue ReadingHow do I Register the .CA Version of a .NB.CA Domain?
UPDATE DECEMBER 2010: due to recent changes to the .CA registry, the instructions below no longer apply. We're looking into the new process and will update this post once we have all...
Continue ReadingRahim Jaffer's web site dead but still twitching
Who pulled the plug on former MP Rahim Jaffer's web site?
The site was in the news last week after the Conservative Party demanded he remove the party logo from the site. The site...
Continue ReadingWarning: DOMAINRENEWALONLINE.ORG "Domain Slamming"
In the past few weeks, we have received several EMail messages advertising domain name registration services provided by DOMAINRENEWALONLINE.ORG. At first glance the messages appear to...
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