July 13, 2019

In memoriam – Corby Corbató, MIT computer science pioneer, dies at 93

Fernando José Corbató, Turing Award winner, computer scientist extraordinaire, MIT computer lab pioneer, RIP.

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May 03, 2019

Belgian programmer solves cryptographic puzzle – 15 years too soon!

Belgian coder Bernard Fabrot just finished a 3.5-year computational marathon, solving a fascinating cryptopuzzle set at MIT back in 1999.

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March 12, 2018

Fake news travels faster than truth on Twitter, and we can’t blame bots

People prefer spreading juicy lies over the truth, according to new research from MIT.

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February 28, 2018

Making private browsing more private

Introducing Veil, an MIT and Harvard research project.

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April 20, 2016

The AI system that can detect 85% of cyber attacks, with a little human help

Machine learning helps it to refine the abnormalities it detects in data so human security experts aren't deluged with false positives.

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February 07, 2016

You let a COMPUTER edit my source code? [Chet Chat Podcast 230]

Join our experts Chet and Duck for the latest episode in our popular weekly security podcast.

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February 03, 2016

Bot fixes buggy code so you don’t have to

Researchers at MIT have created a bug-fixing bot. What do you think? Do you welcome our new code-patching overlords?

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November 09, 2015

Leaky mobile phones are ‘betraying’ us

73% of Android apps are sharing PII with third parties, and 47% of iOS apps share geolocation data, researchers have found.

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October 30, 2015

Researchers use Wi-Fi to see gestures, identify individuals through walls

RF-Capture can see where you are, who you are, and which hand you're moving, even though you're invisible to the naked eye.

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