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We’ve received a solid report from a reliable and proven source thatYahoohas sold social bookmarking siteDeliciousfor $5m+. The service was placed on the market in December after ameetingto discuss Yahoo’s future direction. After a heated bidding process, the site has reportedly been sold to a rival bookmarking service – who exactly we’re unsure of but we’ll update once we have confirmation. We do know its been sold to an existing competitor with “strong user base....

If you’ve ever emailed a resort in Fiji or Vanuatu about that long-awaited holiday, it’s likely your email traveled through an undersea internet cable. Such cables carry much of the internet traffic around the globe, in conjunction with underground fiber connections, satellites, and microwave links. For Pacific Island countries, undersea internet cables can be crucial. The number of Pacific Island countries with such connections has increased substantiallyin recent years. Even so, many countries still rely on a single cable and others have no cable at all....

Understand adversarial attacks by doing one yourself with this tool Crafting your own adversarial examples Song has designed adversarial.js with simplicity in mind. It is written in Tensorflow.js, the JavaScript version of Google’s famous deep learning framework. “I wanted to make a lightweight demo that can run on a static webpage. Since everything is loaded as JavaScript on the page, it’s really easy for users to inspect the code and tinker around directly in the browser,” Song toldTechTalks....

TLDR:The Premium Python Programming Certification Bundle includes 10 courses in everything from Python coding basics to higher functions like machine learning and beyond. Data science fields, including the ultra-hot machine learning and artificial intelligence areas — all link back to one primary source: Python. And the numbers don’t lie. About 63 percent of respondents in the State of Data Science 2021 survey saidthey used Python regularly. Meanwhile, 71 percent of educators said they were teaching machine learning and data science courses using Python, while 88 percent of students said they were learning Python specifically to break into those two hot fields....

My company is hard at work in the final design stages of a Web service which has an enterprise social flavour. In the throngs of a design session this week, we got talking about “handshaking” on social networks – the whole process of inviting people to be inside one’s own sub-network, accepting/declining invitations and how that shapes the information that is shared. We talked through design patterns from well-known websites and realised that there’s room to sketch out the different models and think about how they are/aren’t relevant to the system we’re designing....