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16 years of CVE-2008-0166 – Debian OpenSSL Bug

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Many DKIM setups used cryptographic keys vulnerable to the 2008 Debian OpenSSL Bug (CVE-2008-0166) in 2024.

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Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)

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This course teaches the art of guessing results and solving problems without doing a proof or an exact calculation. Techniques include extreme-cases reasoning, dimensional analysis, successive approximation, discretization, generalization, and pictorial analysis.

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Fundamentals of Python Programming for Beginners

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Pandas, in 2008, made Python the best language […] The post Fundamentals of Python Programming for Beginners appeared first on Analytics Vidhya. Introduction If you’ve been in the data field for quite some time, you’ve probably noticed that some technical skills are becoming more dominant, and the data backs this up.

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End of an era: Apple's SuperDrive has sold out after 16 years

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The 2008 MacBook Air didn't have an optical drive, so Apple sold a separate SuperDrive accessory, which has finally seemingly been discontinued from sale.

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Applications of Machine Learning and AI in Banking and Finance in 2023

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Introduction Could the American recession of 2008-10 have been avoided if machine learning and artificial intelligence had been used to anticipate the stock market, identify hazards, or uncover fraud? The recent advancements in the banking and finance sector suggest an affirmative response to this question.

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Pandas 2.0

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It was founded by Wes McKinney in 2008. Introduction If you work with programming languages and are familiar with Python, you must have had a brush with Pandas, a robust yet flexible data manipulation and analysis library. appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Programmers Don't Read Books – But You Should (2008)

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One of the central themes of stackoverflow.com is that software developers no longer learn programming from books, as Joel mentioned: Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers. Joel expressed similar sentiments in 2004's

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