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Machine Learning: Better Data is Always Better

By Dick Weisinger

How much data do you need to generate good Machine Learning results? The answer is that it depends. It depends greatly on the complexity of your problem and the ML algorithm that you are using to solve it. For example,…

Malware: Hackers Begin to Use More Modern Software Languages to Build Exploits

By Dick Weisinger

Software developers write code, while malware hackers specifically write code that can exploit vulnerabilities of of existing software or networks. Hackers generally use the same tools and techniques to write code that are used by ordinary programmers. Exploits have long…

Linux: Can it Ever Break Through in the Desktop Market?

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been more than 30 years since the Linux project was first introduced by Linus Torvalds. Over the years Linux has resoundingly captured the market for servers running in the cloud and for business. Linux has been packaged and bundled…

Digital Twins: Reimagining the Physical World Through Simulations

By Dick Weisinger

Digital twins are virtual clones of some physical object or thing. The twin can be used in simulations to check the status of an object, to analyze it, and to see how the object might change or evolve under different…

Security: It Isn’t Only Software — Hardware Can Be Vulnerable Too

By Dick Weisinger

Rowhammer is a vulnerability in lower end DRAM memory chips that can be used by hackers to exploit computers. The memory chip is attacked by forcing the same small piece of data to be read over and over. That small…