A hardware hack  means that you can compromise a machine that has been set up in a particular way. This is important, but it's not a TPM killer. What is surprising is how simple the hack is considering that TPM is the state of the art security hardware.

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Artificial Neural Networks seem to compute in a way that is similar to the way that we do and they use artificial neurons that model the biological neuron - or they are supposed to. Now it seems that we have long underestimated the computing power of the neuron. A new paper suggests that it is more like a 5-8 layer network than just one of our artificial neurons.

A free, self-paced online course about Machine Learning is on offer from Microsoft's Azure Cloud Advocates. Its 24-lesson curriculum, expected to take 12-weeks to complete is targeted at those new to Machine Learning.

Couchbase 7.0 has been released with new relational model support including SQL transactions, and a dynamic data containment model with schema-like structure layers called scopes and collections.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced four new AWS Modern Application Development Specializations on Coursera leading to a certificate that is intended to demonstrate your readiness for the thousands of new jobs opening up that require cloud skills.

Apache Arrow 5 has been released, alongside Apache Arrow Rust 5. Both versions have a number of improvements, including a better asynchronous scanner for the Dataset layer. This is the first release where the Rust projects have moved to separate repositories outside the main Arrow monorepo.

Xiaomi is a company you generally associate with mobile phones, and indeed they just announced one, but along with the new phone was a new, surprisingly affordable and attractive CyberDog.

Do you have a drawer or a box full of unused Raspberry Pis - I do and for good reasons. Now I and you can reclaim some of that value by returning them for recycling and earning a money off voucher for your next order.

JetBrains has launched Kotlin Basics, a free, beginner-level track that has extended the range of offerings in JetBrains Academy, its educational platform that teaches programming through interactive, project-based learning.

The IBM 5150, the first major product called a 'Personal Computer', was launched on August 12, 1981. It ushered in an era of enterprise computing that revolutionized software development.

Node-RED has reached version 2.0. The visual tool for connecting hardware devices with APIs and online services has now dropped support for older versions of Node.js that are themselves no longer supported. The new release includes the first versions of the Node-RED Flow Debugger and Linter.