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ATLANTA (AP) — A group of computer and election security experts is urging Georgia election officials to replace the state’s touchscreen voting machines with hand-marked paper ballots ahead of the November midterm elections, citing what they say are “serious threats” posed by an apparent breach of voting equipment in one county.

The 13 experts on Thursday sent a letter to the members of the State Election Board and to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who’s a non-voting member of the board. It urges them to immediately stop using the state’s Dominion Voting Systems touchscreen voting machines. It also suggests they mandate a particular type of post-election audit on the outcome of all races on the ballot.

The experts who sent the letter include academics and former state election officials and are not associated with efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020

Outrage after a computer store charges an unwitting grandma $1,599 as it makes her pay for things usually done for FREE

• A grandma had to fork out a whopping $1,599 for a regular iPhone repair
• The King IT store charged her $978 for malware removal and $98 for iOS update
• The woman’s son wrote a scathing Google review about the huge invoice
• The computer shop regretted the error and said the woman was fully refunded

By Jade Hobman For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 01:06 EDT, September 7, 2022 | Updated: 03:18 EDT, 7 September 2022

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A University of Texas at Arlington computer science team is using a $600,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop algorithms for microservice-based data center services that allow for quicker, more efficient use of data center computing resources.

In addition, the grant will boost curriculum while supporting several doctoral students working on the project and providing research experiences for undergraduate and underrepresented students.

Hong Jiang, chair and Wendell H. Nedderman Endowed Professor of the UTA Computer Science and Engineering Department, is leading the project titled, “SHF: Small: A Distributed Scalable End-to-End Tail Latency SLO Guaranteed Resource Management Framework for Microservices.” Microservices is a type of computer software construction that Jiang compared to building something with Legos.

Each individual microservice can be viewed as a Lego part, and one can enable a specific computing service by simply putting

Vanderbilt will be looking to open the 2022 season on a positive note when it faces Hawaii on the road on Saturday night in the Week 0 nightcap. The Commodores finished 2-10 under head coach Clark Lea last year, while Hawaii hired Timmy Chang to take over his alma mater’s program in the offseason. Hawaii went 11-11 in two seasons under head coach Todd Graham, but he resigned following allegations of mistreatment from players.

Kickoff is set for 10:30 pm ET on CBS Sports Network. The Commodores are 9.5-point favorites in the latest Hawaii vs. Vanderbilt odds from Caesars Sportsbook, while the over/under for total points scored is 54.5. Before making any Hawaii vs. Vanderbilt picks or college football predictions, you need to see what SportsLine’s advanced computer model has to say.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every FBS college football game 10,000 times. Over the past six years,

North Texas and UTEP will meet in a season opener on Saturday night after the Mean Green picked up a thrilling 20-17 victory when they met last November. UTEP earned a bowl bid last year and recorded the program’s first winning season since 2014, as the Miners’ seven wins matched their total from the previous five seasons combined. North Texas won five straight games to close the regular season before losing its bowl game.

Kickoff is set for 9 p.m. ET. The Mean Green are 1.5-point favorites in the latest UTEP vs. North Texas odds from Caesars Sportsbook, while the over/under for total points scored is 52.5. Before making any vs. North Texas picks or college football predictions, you need to see what SportsLine’s advanced computer model has to say.

The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every FBS college football game 10,000 times. Over the past six years, the proprietary

Hackers have been abusing the anti-cheat system in a massively popular game, and you don’t even need to have it installed on your computer to be affected.

The game in question is called Genshin Impact, and according to a new report, hackers are able to utilize the game’s anti-cheat measures in order to disable antivirus programs on the target machine. From there, they’re free to conduct ransomware attacks and take control of the device.

Trend Micro prepared a lengthy report about this new hack, describing the way it works in great detail. The attack can be carried out using a Genshin Impact driver called “mhypro2.sys.” As mentioned above, the game doesn’t need to be installed on the targeted device. The module can operate independently and doesn’t need the game in order to run.

have found proof of threat actors using this vulnerability to conduct ransomware attacks since

The first laptop and even the first iPhone made significant strides in consumer technology, and it has long been speculated that the mainstream introduction of quantum computers (QCs) will also lead to technological breakthroughs. The one factor hindering the technology is the resources needed to build these computers. Chicago QC startup EeroQhowever, is trying to make the tech more attainable and it recently raised new funding.

Quantum computers are supercomputers, but instead of connecting to the internet or running software, they are used to process large amounts of data from molecular particles. And because of their niche power, QCs are mainly used in scientific fields, but even then are still rare to come across.

In Chicago, EeroQ is working to bring quantum computers to market sooner. The startup raised $7.25 million in seed funding on Wednesday to speed up its hardware production. The latest round was led

With the support of a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Carlos Maltzahn and the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) will participate in collaborative research to increase the reproducibility of computer science research.

This grant comes from the inaugural year of an NSF initiative, called Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable (FAIR) Open Science Research Coordination Networks (FAIROS RCN), to create groups of researchers who lead by example to promote open science results and artifacts. Overall, 10 new project groups were funded to pool $12.5 million into creating open source communities, which foster a vibrant exchange of artifacts within a common infrastructure.

“There’s a huge shift going on,” said Maltzahn, director of UCSC CROSS. “I think it has to do with the realization of how much value the industry places on open source, and