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Building Up the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
U.S. chipmakers await monetary support from the government a year after supporting legislation was signed into law.
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Microsoft Finds Memory Allocation Holes in Range of IoT, Industrial Technology
A Microsoft security research unit discovered a number of poor memory allocation operations in code used in Internet of Things and operational technology.
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Emotet Botnet Harvested 4.3 Million eMail Addresses; FBI Using 'Have I Been Pwned' to Alert the Victims
The law enforcement agency is working with the data breach service to alert people that their information may have been harvested by the botnet.
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Brazilian Government Launches Toolkit to Support Data Protection Compliance
Brazil's Digital Government Secretariat has rolled out a toolkit to facilitate central government agencies' compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation...
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These New Vulnerabilities put Millions of IoT Devices at Risk, so Patch Now
Detailed by researchers at Forescout, the Name:Wreck vulnerabilities could allow attackers to control devices and remotely execute code, act as a gateway to the...
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This Old Programming Language is Suddenly Getting More Popular Again
Apple's Objective-C finally exits the top 20 list of popular programming languages tracked by Tiobe, but a 'dinosaur' language has had an unexpected boost.
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Firmware Attacks Are on the Rise and You Aren't Worrying About Them Enough
Businesses are too busy patching to worry about firmware attacks, according to a Microsoft-commissioned study.
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Fewer Troops, but More Tech: U.K. Military Downsizes as it Shifts to AI, Drones, Cyber
New defense plans for the next decade come with a strong focus on new technologies, pitching leaner but more effective armed forces.
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This Powerful Supercomputer Was Built in Just 20 Weeks, With a Bit of Help From a Tiny Robot
The Cambridge-1 supercomputer has entered its first stages of operation just 20 weeks after it was first announced.
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Technology Will Create Millions of Jobs. The Problem Will Be to Find Workers to Fill Them
A new economic analysis indicates that new technologies will create tens of millions of jobs by 2030, but are unlikely to offset job losses from automation.
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High Severity Linux Network Security Holes Found, Fixed
Positive Technologies' Alexander Popov detected five high-severity security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel's virtual socket implementation.
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Bug Bounties: More Hackers Spotting Vulnerabilities Across Web, Mobile, IoT
HackerOne's 2021 Hacker Report reveals a 63% jump in the number of ethical hackers submitting vulnerabilities to bug bounty programs during the last year.
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Way Beyond AlphaZero: Berkeley, Google Work Shows Robotics May Be Deepest Machine Learning of All
A new report found that the hardest and perhaps most promising work of deep learning may lie in the realm of robotics,
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Developers: This Is the One Skill Most Likely to Get You Hired, According to IBM
New IBM research revealed that developers with skills in creating open-source cloud technologies are more likely than other job candidates to receive a call-back...
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30,000 Macs Infected with New Silver Sparrow Malware
Silver Sparrow can even run on systems with Apple's new M1 chip.
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Apple CEO Sounds Warning of Algorithms Pushing Society Towards Catastrophe
Tim Cook says there will be consequences to having 'rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms'.
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AI Set to Replace Humans in Cybersecurity by 2030, Says Trend Micro Survey
In a survey of information technology leaders, 41% of respondents expect artificial intelligence to take over their roles by 2030.
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How 3D Printing Is Helping CERN Scientists Upgrade the World's Largest Machine
Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research have spent the past five years working to upgrade to the large hadron collider, the largest particle...
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Side-Channel Attack Can Recover Encryption Keys From Google Titan Security Keys
Researchers at French security company NinjaLab found a vulnerability impacting chips used in Google Titan and YubiKey hardware security keys.
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Hack the Army Bug Bounty Challenge Asks Hackers to Find Vulnerabilities in Military Networks
The Defense Digital Service and HackerOne are calling on military and civilian hackers to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the U.S. Army's computer systems...
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