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Minecraft Java edition code no longer obfuscated

Minecraft, created by Markus "Notch" Persson long before it became the most successful game of all time and a $2bn payday to Microsoft, was written in Java. Notch obfuscated the code to prevent others ...
IEEE

Pose Adapted Shape Learning for Large-Pose Face Reenactment

Abstract: We propose the Pose Adapted Shape Learning (PASL) for large-pose face reenactment. The PASL framework consists of three modules, namely the Pose-Adapted face Encoder (PAE), the ...

A Secret Code Shapes All Life, Scientists Say. But This Ancient Fossil Refused to Follow It.

This 407-million-year-old species of clubmoss doesn’t follow the Fibonacci sequence like most of its living relatives.
InfoWorld

The best new features in Java 25

JDK 25 brings powerful new features to Java and JVM developers. Here are seven new or updated features that could convince ...
The New York Times

Who Deserves an Organ? The Dilemma of Severe Mental Illness.

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. You walk into a room in the intensive care unit and find a man in his ...
IEEE

VulKiller: Java Web Vulnerability Detection with Code Property Graph and Large Language Models

Abstract: In recent years, web application development has become more efficient, yet vulnerabilities still pose significant risks. Traditional static and dynamic detection techniques are prone to ...