The quantum supremacy experiment pits NASA’s supercomputer, the fastest on Earth and nearly twice the speed of the next most powerful supercomputer, against Google’s Quantum Computer. Surprisingly efficient at only 13 Megawatts of energy to operate, the NASA supercomputer could otherwise power roughly 15,000 homes. Google’s Quantum Computer is the underdog by a good margin going into this battle so beating the supercomputer by any fraction of time is a huge achievement.
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Read MoreAn extremely common re-infection path is via USB key or external drive. Many antivirus products do protect these devices but if you were already infected, the virus has already defeated your antivirus. So read on if your infected computer had a USB key or external drive plugged in!
Read MoreHacking is rarely prosecuted criminally. It’s essentially already legal due to extremely low levels of enforcement. Percentage-wise hackers are far less likely to be reprimanded than someone speeding down the highway. Ostensibly hacking is completely legal and if that’s the case how are you protecting yourself from it?
Read MoreMicrosoft has greatly improved user experience in dealing with virus infection by building some fantastic tools into Windows 10. Here’s a fresh procedure for virus cleanup:
Read MoreMicrosoft published information on a critical remote code execution vulnerability dubbed the Bluekeep RDP vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) in May 2019. Windows 8 and newer systems have a default RDP setting requiring Network Level Authentication that mitigates the risk of this vulnerability while systems running Windows 7 and Server 2k8 or 2k8 R2 can be patched. LARG*net immediately scanned all member networks to determine if whether anyone was externally vulnerable and thankfully no one was.
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