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Submission + - ETH/SRL uses machine learning for JavaScript code de-obfuscation

Submitted by velco on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @10:40AM

velco writes: ETH Zurich Software Reliability Lab announced JSNice (jsnice.org), statistical
de-obfuscation and de-minification tool for JavaScript.

The interesting thing about JSNice is that it combines program analysis with
machine learning techniques to build a database of name and type regularities
from large amounts of available open source code on GitHub.

Then, given new JavaScript code, JSNice tries to infer the most likely names and
types for that code by basing its decision on the learned regularities in the
training phase.

Comment Shooting themselves in the foot (Score 1) 507

by velco on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @04:27AM (#45277713) Attached to: How Big Data Is Destroying the US Healthcare System

Well, if I approach an insurance company and they eventually decide to sell me a medical insurance,
it would reassure me I don't really need it and I would not make a contract, right?

So, no selling insurance to healthy candidates, no selling to no so healthy candidates ... how do you sustain such business?

Comment we are all subjects (Score 2) 84

by velco on Friday July 26, 2013 @04:33AM (#44389161) Attached to: Five Charged In Largest Hacking Scheme Ever Prosecuted In US

It's not about the money, it's about sending a message: Do not compete with the government. ;)

Comment Big fat wallet (Score 1) 378

by velco on Thursday November 17, 2011 @09:04AM (#38084448) Attached to: Has Apple Made Programmers Cool?

AppStore millionaires or other kinds of millionaires ... big fat wallet have always been cool.

Comment Re:True for tablets, not computers (Score 2) 407

by velco on Saturday November 05, 2011 @08:45AM (#37957048) Attached to: Apple's Secret Weapon To Influence Industry Pricing

> You have to keep in mind that Macs used to cost 3x the price of PCs back in the days. It is now a little more expensive, but not by nearly that much.

I regularly check local prices for iMacs compared to a hand-built PC (again from a local supplier) with same or better parts. Last time, a week ago, the iMac (several models) came about 2x the PC price.

(And yes, my hand-built PCs are generally from superior parts from vendor PCs, including box, cooling, PSU ...)

Comment Jailbreak is used for cheating (Score 0) 437

by velco on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @10:53AM (#35137726) Attached to: Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack

Many would attempt to portrait jailbreakers as independent thinkers and tinkerers, while much more likely the majority are 12 yo kids cheating in online games.

World's Smallest Battery Created 77

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:03AM from the only-need-fifty-thousand-of-them-to-power-a-phone dept.

Zothecula writes "Because battery technology hasn't developed as quickly as the electronic devices they power, a greater and greater percentage of the volume of these devices is taken up by the batteries needed to keep them running. Now a team of researchers working at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies has created the world's smallest battery. 'It consists of a bulk lithium cobalt cathode three millimeters long, an ionic liquid electrolyte, and has as its anode a single tin oxide (Sn02) nanowire 10 nanometers long and 100 nanometers in diameter.' (Abstract in Science.) Although the tiny battery won't be powering next year's mobile phones, it has already provided insights into how batteries work and should enable the development of smaller and more efficient batteries in the future."

Wolfenstein Gets Ray Traced 184

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @03:42AM from the ach-mein-framen dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After showcasing Quake Wars: Ray Traced a few years ago, Intel is now showing their latest graphics research project using Wolfenstein game content. The new and cool special effects are actually displayed on a laptop using a cloud-based gaming approach with servers that have an Intel Knights Ferry card (many-core) inside. Their blog post has a video and screenshots."

Beamed Space Solar Power Plant To Open In 2016? 512

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 25, 2009 @09:25AM from the duck-duck-burn dept.

Eric_S writes "Anybody who managed to get a decent city going in Sim City 2000 remembers the microwave power plant; now it seems like a real-world equivalent might be coming up on the horizon. The Pacific Gas and Electricity Company, per this 'interview' with the CEO of Solaren on their affiliated site, announced PG&E's plans to buy 200MW of base-load power from a Solaren beamed space solar power plant by 2016." I wish the skeptic in me would be quiet.

Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests 371

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @04:15AM from the there-fixed-that-for-ya dept.

ThinSkin writes "So many Web browsers, so little time. The folks at ExtremeTech have assembled the ultimate browser test to determine which Web browser is king. From speed tests to rendering tests, different browsers traded off wins, but Google Chrome came out on top."

"Challenge Room" DLC Doesn't Follow BioShock's Strengths 41

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 09, 2008 @03:26AM from the waiting-on-bioshock-III-arena dept.

Kotaku took a look at the "Challenge Room" downloadable content for the PS3 version of BioShock. They came to the conclusion that while the combat is entertaining, it doesn't have the same focus on the story that made BioShock such a good game. Quoting: "What's really bothering me is the lack of fiction. I'm not asking for a new ending or a tacked-on chapter that somehow changes the fantastic story of BioShock — why fix something that isn't broken, right? It's just that what made BioShock special was the story. Oh, sure, the graphics were spiffy, the art style was cool and the game really does play well (not too glitchy or difficult to manage). But to me, BioShock without its story is like a Twinkie without its filling — still somewhat tasty, but hollow and far less satisfying."

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