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Build an infinite desktop on Ubuntu with Python and a systemd timer

Pull fresh Unsplash wallpapers and rotate them on GNOME automatically with a Python script plus a systemd service and timer.
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New Clickfix variant ‘CrashFix’ deploying Python Remote Access Trojan

CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.

Images of NYC Mayor Mamdani with Jeffrey Epstein are AI-generated. Here's how we know

Images circulating online that show New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a child with millionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are generated by artificial intelligence.
IEEE

Learnable Non-Uniform Quantization With Sampling-Based Optimization for Variable-Rate Learned Image Compression

Abstract: Variable-rate coding is challenging but indispensable for learned image compression (LIC) that is in nature characterized by nonlinear transform coding (NTC). Existing methods for ...