December 01, 2022

The CHRISTMA EXEC network worm – 35 years and counting!

"Uh-oh, this viruses-and-worms scene could turn out quite troublesome." If only we'd been wrong...

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June 19, 2020

IBM Maximo Asset Management servers patched against attacks

As the name suggests, IBM Maximo is typically used by really big companies to track really huge numbers of assets...

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March 25, 2020

Your unused computer could help find a COVID-19 cure

Put it to work for the Folding@Home distributed computing project to uncover how the virus's spikes latch on and how they can be blocked.

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October 24, 2019

IBM tears into Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ claim

Is ‘quantum supremacy’ the moment that the rarefied world of quantum computing finally enters popular consciousness? Probably not.

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October 22, 2019

US nuclear weapons command finally ditches 8-inch floppies

The disks are part of the command centres that run the country’s nuclear missile deterrent on behalf of SACCS.

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September 20, 2019

IBM’s new 53-qubit quantum ‘mainframe’ is live in the cloud

IBM has boosted its growing stable of quantum computers with a new 53-quantum bit (qubit) device, the most powerful ever offered for commercial use.

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September 20, 2019

Report: Use of AI surveillance is growing around the world

It's not just China: at least 75 out of 176 countries globally are actively using AI technologies for surveillance purposes, research shows.

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January 08, 2019

LA sues The Weather Channel over selling users’ location data

The app is accused of being a “location data company powered by weather” and profiting from users' data without being upfront about it.

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November 15, 2018

France: Let’s make the internet safer! US: ‘How about NO?!’

Don't cry for us, Argentina: Critics saw potential for government meddling without court order, among other issues.

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