Mozilla-backed researchers are working on a real-time noise suppression algorithm using a neural network -- and they want your noise! Long-time Slashdot reader jmv writes: The Mozilla Research RRNoise project combines classic signal processing with deep learning, but it's small and fast. No expensive GPUs required -- it runs easily on a Raspberry Pi. The result is easier to tune and sounds better than traditional noise suppression systems (been there!). And you can help! From the site: Click on this link to let us record one minute of noise from where you are... We're interested in noise from any environment where you might communicate using voice. That can be your office, your car, on the street, or anywhere you might use your phone or computer. They claim it already sounds better than traditional noise suppression systems, and even though the code isn't optmized yet, "it already runs about 60x faster than real-time on an x86 CPU."

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Thousands of people turned out across Catalonia on Sunday to vote in a secession referendum.

ICANN had planned to change the master key used to sign secure Domain Name System records next week for the first time in history. But now an anonymous reader writes:Inattentive ISPs and technical faults have led the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to delay the KSK Rollover for next year. ICANN was supposed to remove the root encryption KSK key from core DNS servers on October 11 and allow a new one to take effect. The key is used for the DNSSEC protocol. According to ICANN, between 6% to 8% of ISPs did not install the new KSK key to replace the one issued in 2010. The organization says that if it had gone forward with the original KSK Rollover plan, over 60 million Internet users would have been unable to make DNS requests. For the vast majority, ICANN blames lazy ISPs, which failed to update their existing keys. ICANN also believes that many ISPs may not be aware they had not installed the latest KSK. ICANN also distributed software to automatically pull down and install the new KSK. Some ISPs opted to use this software, which apparently had some bugs and failed to download and install the new KSK, in some situations. Because of this, ICANN announced this week it would delay the KSK Rollover final step — of removing and revoking the original KSK key -- to the first quarter of 2018. ICANN has not decided yet on a precise date.

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Read and write configuration data through Augeas

Various tools for understanding and manipulating the underlying IEEE-754 representation of floating point values

Command line tools to generate and update Travis and AppVeyor configs for Perl libraries

Mojo::Base + lexical "has"

Locale::MO::File - Write or read gettext MO files.

Mojo::Base + lexical "has"

As basketball’s governing body FIBA enforces new rules, UK players form first all-Muslim women’s team .

ZDNet's editor-in-chief warns that Amazon has ambitious plans for its new Echo Plus: Amazon is making an explicit play to be the home hub because it can automatically discover and set up lights, locks, plugs, and switches without the need for additional hubs or apps. And the Alexa 'routines' feature will be able to tie all of this together by allowing you to automate a series of actions with a single voice command: saying "Alexa, good night," and having it turn off the lights, lock the door, and turn off the TV, for example. A platform that other apps and devices can connect into? This starts to sound a lot like an operating system for the home to me. It's not just the home, either; Amazon announced a deal to make Alexa available in BMW and Mini vehicles from the middle of next year, allowing drivers to use the digital assistant to get directions, play music or control smart home devices while travelling, without having to use a separate app. Travellers will also have access to Alexa skills from third-party developers like Starbucks, allowing them to order their coffee while driving and thus skip the line. Back in January, Amazon and Ford said they were working together to allow voice commands to turn on the engine, lock or unlock the doors as well as play music and use other skills... It's still early days but I think Alexa has a good shot at becoming one of the standard interfaces, certainly for consumers -- an operating system for the home, if not more, if the automotive tie-ups take off too. All of this will make Amazon a serious force to be reckoned with. Windows has the desktop, and Android and iOS can fight it out for the smartphone, but right now Alexa has a lock on the smart home.

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You can fake caring but you can't fake showing up.

I changed my name to 140-char Dave on Twitter, not as an endorsement of the 140-char limit. I favor no limit, with a simple "show more" link on tweets over 140. I understand some people don't favor such a change, but imho they are wrong.

I saw Bob Schieffer on Face The Nation. He says that the press used to be gatekeepers, but not so much these days. I still get my news from the major brands, only a few new ones have entered my zone of trust. And they are total gatekeepers. My number one frustration is the inability to join the discourse. I feel my ideas are good enough to be part of the flow, esp when there's so much boring repetition. For whatever reason it's impossible. And that's very frustrating. I don't know what the answer is but I think about it all the time.

In that context I find the new voice of Carmen Yulín Cruz to be inspiring and optimistic. She was unknown just a few days ago, and has said things that normally would never get through the gatekeepers. But she had what it takes. A big enough title to make her not such a risk, and an eloquence and directness that serves as a wonderful foil to the panic, cowardice and covering-up of El Presidentè. Her anger comes through, and it seems real, which is very unusual for TV news.

What if everyone kept a public list of things everyone should know that they probably don't know, and why they should know it.

Here's one of the things I'd put in my list. Most supposed online jokes are not funny because this is not your living room and the people who hear it don't know you.

I figured out today the key mistake white Americans make about people who aren't like them.