Tag: Computer Science
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GhostRace – New Data Leak Vulnerability Affects Modern CPUs
A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution. Dubbed …
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#RSAC: Computer Science Courses Must Teach Cybersecurity to Meet US Government Goals
To ensure that digital systems and products have security built in by design, the US federal government and cybersecurity professionals …
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High-Severity Bug Reported in Google’s OAuth Client Library for Java
Google last month addressed a high-severity flaw in its OAuth client library for Java that could be abused by a malicious actor with a …
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How to Attract More Computer Science Grads to the Cybersecurity Field
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts “information security analyst” will be the tenth-fastest-growing occupation over the next …
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Michigan Computer Science Professor Charged with Sex Crime
A professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan has been charged with first degree sexual misconduct. Peter …
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Idle Computer Science skills are the Devil’s playthings
Who, Me? Ah, the sweet, sweet smell of Monday. What better way to start your week than combining it with the latest confession of wrongdoing …
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From the NSA to Silicon Valley, a new kind of encryption is going commercial
Encryption as we know it is on the brink of a major advancement: Mathematics teams at IBM, Intel, Microsoft and a range of startup firms …
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Cramming Software With Thousands of Fake Bugs Could Make It More Secure
It sounds like a joke, but the idea actually makes sense: More bugs, not less, could theoretically make a system …
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Energy Neutral Drone Swarms Can Spy on You Without Taking a Break
In following computer science-slash-machine learning research you come across a lot of unintentional dystopias hiding under cover of …
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Employers Increasingly Demand Computer Science Skills in Non-Tech Jobs
Roughly two-thirds of the highest-paying and fastest-growing jobs in fields like design and marketing now demand computer science skills, …
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In the Era of ‘Prosthetic Intelligence,’ the Right to Remain Silent Is the Right To Encryption
You have the right to remain silent. It’s a key principle of the United States criminal justice system and many others that as the accused we can choose to not say anything―to not reveal anything―under questioning by the police or at trial. Read full news article on Motherboard
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Mini book: The Morning Paper Issue 6 – Computer Science Applied
Subtle production failures running Microsoft Azure, identifying users from aggregated mobile data, taking over a city with Philips Hue lightbulbs, processing a trillion edge graph on a single machine, and why Rust should be your systems language of choice. Read full news article on InfoQ
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