MIT researchers aim to take the human element out of big-data analysis, with a new system that not only searches for patterns but designs the feature set, too. To test the first prototype of their system, they enrolled it in three data science competitions, in which it competed against human teams to find predictive patterns Read more about Computer uses algorithms to decide what relationships to study in big data sets, outperforms humans[…]

Available for all versions of Windows, this offers a plethora of tweaks for your system.

After a concerned Windows user wrote in to the Inquirer, reports blew up this week that Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 installation files onto users’ machines without them reserving a copy of the new operating system. We reached out to the company to set the record straight; we confirmed that this occurs when Automatic Updates Read more about Microsoft pushes 3GB Windows 10 to your PC even if you don’t want to upgrade — here’s how to stop it[…]

This new distribution method works a lot like torrents do. Everyone has Windows 10 on their machine, so each person seeds a little bit of the files to those who need it, distributing the load across multiple computers and helping everyone download updates quickly. This is a great feature for those who have no data Read more about Windows 10 Uses Your Bandwidth to Distribute Updates, Disable It Here[…]

Classic Shell™ is free software that improves your productivity, enhances the usability of Windows and empowers you to use the computer the way you like it. The main features are: Highly customizable start menu with multiple styles and skins Quick access to recent, frequently-used, or pinned programs Find programs, settings, files and documents Start button Read more about Classic Shell – Start menu and other Windows enhancements[…]

Windows 10 is finally here, and your computer will automatically prompt you to upgrade. But if you’d rather start fresh, you can do a clean install—you just need to follow a few steps in the right order.http://lifehacker.com/5983652/how-to… How to Do a Clean Install of Windows Without Losing Your Files, Settings, and Tweaks How to Do Read more about How to Do a Clean Install of Windows 10, even after free upgrade[…]

Windows 10 auto-downloads and auto-installs updates. This is mostly a Good Thing for general security, but becomes a Bad Thing when said update installs a glitchy graphics driver that breaks your desktop. There is a way to disable auto-updates, but it’s not pretty. Source: Here’s The Incredibly Hacky Way to Disable Windows 10 Updates Auto Read more about Here’s The Incredibly Hacky Way to Disable Windows 10 Updates – if you know they exist[…]

A fresh re-install always makes Windows much faster but that means you lose all your program settings. When you’re switching to a new PC CloneApp will Clone your App Content (Configuration files and folders from Windows directories, Registry entries, Pictures, Documents etc.) to Another Workspace to simplify the re-install process or only for Backup purposes. Read more about CloneApp – backs up windows program settings so you can copy them to a fresh install.[…]

After almost 24 months of constant development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 8 (code name "Jessie"), which will be supported for the next 5 years thanks to the combined work of the Debian Security team and of the Debian Long Term Support team. "Jessie" ships with a new default Read more about Debian 8 “Jessie” released[…]

RenderMan is now free for all non-commercial purposes, including evaluations, education, research, and personal projects. The non-commercial version of RenderMan is fully functional without watermark or limitation via Non-Commercial.

Why revise HTTP? HTTP/1.1 has served the Web well for more than fifteen years, but its age is starting to show. Loading a Web page is more resource intensive than ever (see the HTTP Archive’s page size statistics), and loading all of those assets efficiently is difficult, because HTTP practically only allows one outstanding request Read more about HTTP/2 Released[…]

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HTML5. Finally final!

Free up shared wifi spots! Over a year of traveling, I’ve consistently struggled with broken wifi spots overloaded with torrent traffic. After talking with the frustrated non-technical people who owned/managed them, I wrote this program to help network users and owners. This program: Listens for BitTorrent clients on the network, Adds their IPs and MACs Read more about BitHammer – Ban BitTorrent clients[…]

Well… it puts the key server externally, so it isn’t your problem 🙂 cloudflare/keyless · GitHub.

This project’s goal is to create a "best practices" web application penetration testing framework which users can implement in their own organizations and a "low level" web application penetration testing guide that describes how to find certain issues. via OWASP Testing Project – OWASP. Table of Contents here

General Dynamics C4 Systems and NICTA are pleased to announce the open sourcing of seL4, the world’s first operating-system kernel with an end-to-end proof of implementation correctness and security enforcement. It is still the world’s most highly-assured OS. What’s being released? It includes all of the kernel’s source code, all the proofs, plus other code Read more about seL4 – Open source formally verified bug free microkernel OS released[…]

FossaMail is an Open Source, Mozilla Thunderbird-based mail, news and chat client for Windows, brought to you by the Pale Moon developer (and therefore not affiliated with the Mozilla Corporation). It is an optimized and reconfigured re-build of Mozilla Thunderbird ESR. via FossaMail.

De GEMMA Softwarecatalogus bevat het software-aanbod van ruim 130 ICT-leveranciers die zich committeren aan e-overheid standaarden. In de softwarecatalogus kunnen gemeenten eenvoudig hun eigen applicatieportfolio invoeren en een eigen applicatielandschap plotten. Gemeenten kunnen zoeken en kijken in elkaars applicatieportfolio om vervolgens ervaringen en kennis uit te wisselen. via GEMMA Softwarecatalogus.

Microsoft’s streaming version of Office has broken for some users after a patch. Isn’t the cloud lovely! Streamingversie Office start niet meer op na patch – Webwereld.

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you’ve already downloaded Read more about UNetbootin – create a USB bootable linux drive[…]