Fearing AI, fanfiction writers lock their accounts
Kinktober. Whumptober. Kisstober. Flufftober. Goretober. October is a bacchanal of fanfiction, from romantic one-shots about unconventional character pairings, to delicious smut that’ll make you reconsider your own sense of morality — all inspired by the month’s countless themed writing challenges. It’s an especially busy time for the fanfiction site Archive
Read MoreGang says it stole more Air Canada data than the company admits
The BianLian ransomware gang says Air Canada hasn’t been forthright about the amount of data it stole in last month’s cyber attack. Last month the airline said an attacker “briefly obtained limited access to an internal Air Canada system related to limited personal information of some employees and certain records.”
Read MorePython code for means
The last couple article have looked at various kinds of mean. The Python code for four of these means is trivial: gm = lambda a, b: (a*b)**0.5 am = lambda a, b: (a + b)/2 hm = lambda a, b: 2*a*b/(a+b) chm = lambda a, b: (a**2 + b**2)/(a +
Read MoreVidCon is still kickin’
VidCon is a weird event. Over the last 13 years, the event has transitioned from just a fan convention to an industry-forward gathering where you’ll mingle with venture capitalists and Hatsune Miku cosplayers alike. Now, after pulling off its first ever east coast event, VidCon will return to Anaheim, California
Read MoreThird-party Reddit app Narwhal hopes to survive Reddit’s app purge with a subscription plan
After a nasty battle between the developers of third-party apps and Reddit management, ultimately resulting in a site-wide protest, many app makers were put out of business due to Reddit’s price increases related to the usage of its API. Though the changes meant the loss of popular apps like Apollo,
Read MoreTikTok’s Effect Creator Rewards fund now has lower eligibility requirements, an updated payout model and more
TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model, reduced payout increments and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards. The $6 million fund, which launched in May, rewards creators for the effects they make through TikTok’s AR development platform, Effect House. The
Read MoreData transformation startup Prophecy lands $35M investment
Prophecy, a low-code development platform for companies to transform their data, today announced that it raised $35 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners and SignalFire with participation from J.P. Morgan, Singtel Innov8, Databricks Ventures and DallasVC. The new cash, which brings Prophecy’s total capital raised
Read MoreConstruction sites feel emptier, but is bleeding-edge tech the solution?
The labor shortage in construction isn’t a problem that’s unique to the U.S.; it's very much a global issue.
Read MoreCanadian small businesses optimistic about the future: report
Small Canadian businesses are feeling optimistic about their future, according to Scotiabank’s fourth Path to Impact report. The report says 66 per cent of business owners are extremely optimistic about the future state of their business. Additionally, half of the respondents stated they are doing better since the peak of
Read MoreWarning to website admins: HTTP/2 zero-day causes massive DDoS attacks, patch now
Developers and administrators of web servers are being warned to install patches to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability in a key protocol that led to a recent record-smashing denial of service attack. Dubbed Rapid Reset, it leverages HTTP/2’s stream cancellation feature by sending a request and immediately canceling it, over
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