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Software Is Crammed Full of Bugs. This 'Exciting' Project Could Banish Most of Them
Chip designer Arm has released a prototype development board based on the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) architecture.
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Booby-Trapped Sites Delivered Potent Backdoor Trojan to macOS Users
Security researchers have uncovered macOS malware that can be installed by exploits almost impossible for most users to detect.
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IRS Wants to Scan Your Face
By this summer, Americans wanting to access their Internal Revenue Service records online will be required to submit a facial video to confirm their identity.
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What Does a Forehand Winner Sound Like? Clink, Blip-Blip-Blip!
At the Australian Open tennis tournament, new technology is translating the movement of the ball into sounds to help blind and low-vision fans follow the action...
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Why Is Silicon Valley Still Waiting for the Next Big Thing?
The tech industry has grown rich off big ideas developed more than a decade ago. New things like quantum computing and self-driving cars could take a while.
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Facebook's Cryptocurrency Venture to Wind Down, Sell Assets
Diem Association is selling its technology to crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital for $200 million.
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Quantum Computers a Million Times Too Small to Hack Bitcoin
Bitcoin is theoretically vulnerable to hacking by quantum computers, but calculations show they would need to be a million times larger than those that exist today...
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Scientists Simulate 'Fingerprint' of Noise on Quantum Computer
Researchers developed a technique that creates a "fingerprint" of noise on a quantum computer, as seen by a simulation running on the machine.
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AI Model Helps Discover Causes of Motor Neuron Disease
A new machine learning model has identified 690 risk genes for motor neuron disease.
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Minecraft DDoS Attack Leaves Small European Country Without Internet
Andorra Telecom experienced repeated distributed denial-of-service attacks during the SquidCraft Games tournament in Minecraft, a multi-day Twitch gaming tournament...
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Engineers Build Molecular Framework to Bridge Experimental, Computer Sciences for Peptide-Based Materials Engineering
Engineers have closed the gap between experimental and computer sciences to better predict peptide structures with a molecular framework.
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The Administration Wants to Prevent an Attack on Water Supplies
New water cybersecurity standards are coming – but they're voluntary.
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How the Computer Chip Shortage Could Incite a U.S. Conflict With China
A war game and study by a think tank illustrate how dependent the world is on Taiwan's semiconductor foundries.
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I.M.F. Urges El Salvador to End its Embrace of Crypto as Bitcoin Tumbles.
The price of Bitcoin has fallen more than 50% from its peak in November, which could prove costly for institutions that have bought into digital currencies.
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Safari Flaws Exposed Webcams, Online Accounts, More
Apple awarded a $100,500 bug bounty to the researcher who discovered the latest major vulnerability in its browser.
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Shanghai Rated World's Top Smart City for 2022
A research report by U.K.-based market researcher Juniper Research ranks Shanghai as the world's top smart city this year.
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Tech Salaries Just Hit Record Highs. So Why Do IT Staff Still Feel Underpaid?
According to the latest Dice Tech Salary Report, the average salary for U.S. technologists reached a record high of $104,566 in 2021.
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Researchers Use Mobile Device Data to Predict COVID-19 Outbreaks
Yale School of Public Health researchers used location information from mobile devices to accurately forecast COVID-19 outbreaks in Connecticut municipalities. ...
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Flaws Plague Tool Meant to Help Low-Risk Federal Prisoners Win Early Release
The U.S. Department of Justice found persistent flaws in an algorithm used to qualify low-risk federal prisoners for early release.
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