This year Let’s Encrypt announced that it’s issued a billion certificates, and it’s been estimated they’ve made certs for almost 30% of web domains. But Friday they posted that “The DST Root X3 root certificate that we relied on to get us off the ground is going to expire — on September 1, 2021. Fortunately, we’re ready to stand on our…
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The Untimely Demise Of Workstations
Graham Lee, writing at De Programmatica Ipsum: Last month’s news that IBM would do a Hewlett-Packard and divide into two — an IT consultancy and a buzzword compliance unit — marks the end of “business as usual” for yet another of the great workstation companies. […] In high-tech domains, an engineer could readily have a toolchest of suitable computers in the…
Brave Browser First To Nix CNAME Deception
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The Brave web browser will soon block CNAME cloaking, a technique used by online marketers to defy privacy controls designed to prevent the use of third-party cookies. The browser security model makes a distinction between first-party domains — those being visited — and third-party domains — from the suppliers of things like…
Contract To Run .eu Domain-name Registry is Up For Grabs as Brussels Tries To Avoid a .Co-style Debacle
The European Union has opened up the .eu internet registry for a new owner, offering a five-year contract to oversee its 3.6 million domain names from October 2022. From a report: The EC’s Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technologies announced the rebid last week and its director of future networks, Pearse O’Donohue, has been pushing the issue to the…
Announcing Coursera for Campus free pricing options and academic integrity upgrades
By Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera CEO The pandemic has been a catalyst for universities to make online learning core to the student experience. In March, we launched the Campus Response Initiative to give students and faculty free access to Coursera for Campus during pandemic-related closures. Since then, we have grown from 30 universities using Coursera for […]
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Scientists use AI to find tiny craters on Mars
All these years, NASA scientists have laboriously sifted through spacecraft images, to identify and classify markings on Mars. Now they’re using a new “classifier,” powered by artificial intelligence. What takes a human 40 minutes takes the AI tool an average of just 5 seconds. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/nasa-artifical-intelligence-spots-craters-on-mars…
Maybe CS Class Isn’t the Best Way To Expose Most Kids To CS
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: “If we want all students to learn computer science (CS for All), we have to go to where the students are,” writes University of Michigan
Grand Valley State University CS Professor Mark Guzdial. “Unfortunately, that’s not computer science class. In most US states, less than 5% of high school students take a course in computer science. “Programming…
Coursera Launches Two New Entry-Level Professional Certificates in Partnership With Salesforce, SV Academy, and IBM
By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Over half of the active workforce in the US does not have a college degree. This group has been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, experiencing more than double the job loss rates compared to college-educated workers. Coursera has teamed up with Salesforce, SV Academy, and IBM to launch […]
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Piratebay.Org Sold For $50,000 At Auction, ThePiratebay.com Up Next
Several Pirate Bay-related domains become available again this month after their owner failed to renew the registration. Yesterday, Piratebay.org was sold in a Dropcatch auction for $50,000 and ThePiratebay.com will follow soon. Both domains were previously registered to the official Pirate Bay site. TorrentFreak reports: Over the years the Pirate Bay team had many ‘backup’ domains available, just in case something…
Vivaldi Browser Adds a Pause Button For the Internet
It can be hard to tear yourself away from the never-ending stream of content provided by the internet, so Vivaldi decided to make taking a break easier by introducing a pause button. PCMag reports: Version 3.3 of the Vivaldi browser introduces a new feature called “Break Mode.” Rather than having to close your browser, Break Mode allows you to effectively pause…