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The Die is Cast
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The Die is Cast

Hardware security is not assured.

The Life of a Data Byte
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The Life of a Data Byte

Be kind and rewind.

The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
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The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs

Hitting a nerve with field-programmable gate arrays.

Dark Patterns
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future

The evolution of tricky user interfaces.

Is Persistent Memory Persistent?
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Is Persistent Memory Persistent?

A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.

Power to the People
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Power to the People

Reducing datacenter carbon footprints.

Demystifying Stablecoins
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Demystifying Stablecoins

Cryptography meets monetary policy.

Commit to Memory
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Commit to Memory

Chipping away at Moore's Law.

Managing the Hidden Costs of Coordination
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Managing the Hidden Costs of Coordination

Controlling coordination costs when multiple, distributed perspectives are essential.

Cognitive Work of Hypothesis Exploration During Anomaly Response
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Cognitive Work of Hypothesis Exploration During Anomaly Response

A look at how we respond to the unexpected.

Securing the Boot Process
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Securing the Boot Process

The hardware root of trust.

Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller
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Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller

If the CPU is the brain of the board, the BMC is the brain stem.

The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
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The Reliability of Enterprise Applications

Understanding enterprise reliability.

Space Time Discontinuum
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Space Time Discontinuum

Combining data from many sources may cause painful delays.

Hack for Hire
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Hack for Hire

Investigating the emerging black market of retail email account hacking services.

API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
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API Practices If You Hate Your Customers

Application programming interfaces speak louder than words.

Write Amplification vs. Read Perspiration
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Write Amplification vs. Read Perspiration

The trade-offs between write and read.

Open Source Firmware
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Open Source Firmware

Step into the world behind the kernel.

Demo Data as Code
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Demo Data as Code

Automation helps collaboration.

Extract, Shoehorn, and Load
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Extract, Shoehorn, and Load

Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.
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