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The Hacker News

New GigaWiper Windows Backdoor Bundles Disk Wiping, Fake Ransomware, and Spyware

Microsoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator can choose from. Each is a different way to break a machine: wipe the whole disk, overwrite the Windows drive, or run fake "ransomware" that scrambles files with a key it never saves

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DZone

Candidate Generation Decides Your Pipeline's Cost, Not the LLM

When the Most Capable Model Is the Wrong Starting Point The fastest way to exceed a document pipeline budget is to let an LLM inspect every document before you have performed lightweight filtering. This sounds obvious, but the bottleneck is invisible at the prototype stage. A single model call is cheap, and it works well on the 20 documents in your test set. Then you hit production traffic. The failure mode is usually pretty similar across teams: tens of thousands of LLM calls per day, tens of m

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The Verge Tech

Google’s Nest Thermostat has hit its best price of the year

Google’s 2020 Nest Thermostat is $50 off. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge If you’re looking for a relatively affordable way to cut down on cooling costs, Google’s Nest Thermostat can help. It’s packed with smart controls and energy-saving features, and right now it’s on sale in white for $79 ($50 off), which is its best price of the year, at Amazon.  Google Nest Thermostat Where to Buy: $129.99 $79 at Amazon The smart thermostat is quick to install and makes it easy to adjust your home’

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