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When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes

When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes

A tale of command line booby traps and bored engineers

 
 

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SiC move: STMicroelectronics banks on bringing power electronics material in house as electric cars rev up

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Intel R&D spending surges after years of neglect as Gelsinger pledges to make Chipzilla great again

A timeline of the x86 giant's stumbles – and commitments for the future

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There's a new Chipzilla in town: Samsung topples Intel to become largest chip maker

Semiconductor shortage helps cause reshuffle at the top

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Chromebook sales in recession: Market saturation blamed as shipments collapse more than 63% in Q4

PC makers ditch Google OS portables for higher-margin Windows machines as component shortages linger

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Ever-growing volumes of data mean computational storage is becoming crucial for HPC, say boffins at Dell's tech chinwag

Data at rest should remain at rest

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When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes

A tale of command line booby traps and bored engineers

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UK's new Brexit Freedom Bill promises already-slated GDPR reform, easier gene editing rules

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Waymo sues California's DMV to block autonomous car crash data from publication

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Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis

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Sure, the James Webb Space Telescope is cool and all. But try making one out of Lego

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