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Wikipedia blacklists website that hijacked users’ computers to run hacking attack

English-language edition of Wikipedia has reportedly banned Archive.today website after the archive site was found to direct a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against a blog. Wikipedia editors reportedly discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The Archive Today…

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Scientists trying to build computers that think like brains using mushrooms |

There is a tendency to picture computers as cold, precise things, sealed away in clean rooms and humming quietly under desks. Brains feel different. Messier. Slower in places. Yet far more efficient overall. That contrast has been bothering computer scientists for years, especially as artificial intelligence grows more demanding. The human brain runs on very…

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