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So, You Want To Buy A Mainframe

The computers we are used to working with are more likely to be at the smaller end of the computational spectrum. Sometimes they are very small indeed, such as tiny microcontrollers with only a few GPIOs. Others are single board machines such as a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino, and often a desktop or laptop

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Researcher outlines how he discovered and exploited the now-patched KeySteal flaw in macOS to access and decrypt keychain passwords without admin privileges (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researcher outlines how he discovered and exploited the now-patched KeySteal flaw in macOS to access and decrypt keychain passwords without admin privileges  —  IN EARLY FEBRUARY, an 18-year-old German security researcher named Linus Henze demonstrated a macOS attack that would allow … Researcher outlines how he discovered and exploited the

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US schools are hastily adopting programs for monitoring students' social media activity to improve safety, often with little regard for effectiveness or privacy (Benjamin Herold/Education Week)

Benjamin Herold / Education Week: US schools are hastily adopting programs for monitoring students’ social media activity to improve safety, often with little regard for effectiveness or privacy  —  Last December, early on a Sunday morning, Amanda Lafrenais tweeted about her cats.  —  “I would die for you,” the 31-year old comic book artist from

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Marvel is adapting a number of its iconic comic books into audiobooks

Marvel Entertainment has partnered with audiobook and digital content producer Dreamscape Media to adapt a number of Marvel’s comic stories as “read-to-me style audiobooks,” reports Variety. The titles will be available starting in September. Variety says that Dreamscape will adapt “around two dozen” iconic stories, includingsuch titles as The Ultimate Spider-Man, The Ultimate X-Men, X-Men:

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With no branding yet from Intel to differentiate laptops under Project Athena, PC makers have little incentive to adhere to the project's target specifications (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: With no branding yet from Intel to differentiate laptops under Project Athena, PC makers have little incentive to adhere to the project’s target specifications  —  Ultrabook was a powerful word, but Intel has forgotten why  —  Roughly eight years ago, Intel flexed its enormous power … With no branding yet

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