Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.
Microsoft

Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...
IEEE

Efficient symbol sorting for high intermediate recovery rate of LT codes

Abstract: LT codes are modern and efficient rateless forward error correction (FEC) codes with close to channel capacity performance. Nevertheless, in intermediate ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft brings C++ smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.

What 5 Million Apps Revealed About Secrets in JavaScript

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder's research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...
IEEE

A 280mV 3.1pJ/code Huffman Decoder for DEFLATE Decompression Featuring Opportunistic Code Skip and 3-way Symbol Generation in 14nm Tri-gate CMOS

Abstract: A 10,790μm 2 dynamic Huffman decoder targeted for DEFLATE header decompression in area and energy constrained IoT platforms is fabricated in 14nm Trigate CMOS. Ternary CAM (TCAM) assisted ...
Daily Mail

Mysterious symbols spanning the globe hint at a lost civilization 38,000 years ago

For centuries, mainstream archaeologists have dismissed the idea that an advanced civilization existed long before modern times. Now, an independent researcher claims he has uncovered ...