Report: Microsoft is Partnering with AMD on Athena AI Chipset

Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is partnering with microprocessor maker AMD to bring its Athena AI chipset to market. The report cites multiple sources.
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Conquering Caffeinated Amazon Athena with the metis Trio of Packages

I must preface this post with the posit that if you’re doing anything interactive() with Amazon Athena you should seriously consider just using their free ODBC drivers as it’s the easiest way to wire them up to R DBI- and tidyverse-wise. I&… Continue reading Conquering Caffeinated Amazon Athena with the metis Trio of Packages

Connecting Apache Zeppelin Up to Amazon Athena with an IAM Profile Name

Apache Zeppelin is a “notebook” alternative to Jupyter (and other) notebooks. It supports a plethora of kernels/interpreters and can do a ton of things that this post isn’t going to discuss (perhaps future ones will, especially since … Continue reading Connecting Apache Zeppelin Up to Amazon Athena with an IAM Profile Name

A new ‘boto3’ Amazon Athena client wrapper with dplyr async query support

A previous post explored how to deal with Amazon Athena queries asynchronously. The function presented is a beast, though it is on purpose (to provide options for folks). In reality, nobody really wants to use rJava wrappers much anymore and dealing wi… Continue reading A new ‘boto3’ Amazon Athena client wrapper with dplyr async query support

Painless ODBC + dplyr Connections to Amazon Athena and Apache Drill with R & odbc

I spent some time this morning upgrading the JDBC driver (and changing up some supporting code to account for changes to it) for my metis package🔗 which connects R up to Amazon Athena via RJDBC. I’m used to JDBC and have to deal with Java… Continue reading Painless ODBC + dplyr Connections to Amazon Athena and Apache Drill with R & odbc

As investigation against Assange is dropped, WikiLeaks releases new CIA malware

It’s Friday, which means that WikiLeaks is releasing another installment from Vault 7, the cache of CIA documents on cyberwarfare. This time it’s a tool that targets Microsoft Windows and a common version of Linux. This release comes the same day that Sweden announced it would drop its rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. British authorities still have a warrant out for Assange’s arrest for failure to appear in court. The U.S. government has not said whether it will charge Assange in the releases of classified information. The newest WikiLeaks release is focused on classified CIA malware called Athena that targets all Windows operating systems including the latest offering, Windows 10. The dates of the leaked documents show that the CIA was able to hack Windows 10 only months after it was released. The malware also targets Ubuntu v. 14.04, the most popular version of Linux. The weapon was developed […]

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WikiLeaks Reveals ‘Athena’ CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows

WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, detailing a spyware framework – which “provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers” – allegedly being used by the CIA that works against every version of Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, from Windows XP to Windows 10.

Dubbed Athena/Hera, the spyware has been designed to take full control over the

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