Tech & AI News Desk · layer 05 of 6
Anduril now says its BlueChip laptop will meet Buy American standards at launch
TECH · The Verge
On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a…
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Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth
TECH · Ars Technica
Critical flaw in EDK2 allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.
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Poetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine
TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing
I step into the warm moist airamong the columns of the pines,their net of twigs and rootscomplex as any lines of code.The trees purify and anchor.Their branches balance my restlessness.Their calling…
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What Biometric Technology Does and Doesn’t Add to Voting
TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing
Whether voters are alive or dead is of vital interest to democracies. Yet unscrupulous political operators have long voted on behalf of the dead or absent and otherwise committed electoral frauds…
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Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4
TECH · Ars Technica
Flubbed key signing "ceremony" allowed minting of web credentials for any site.
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Why Engineers Should Brave Capitol Hill
TECH · IEEE Spectrum · Computing
When San Antonio–based software engineer Nikhil Jathar first went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal support for technology education and research funding, he was in awe of the opportunity.…
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333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email
TECH · Ars Technica
For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.
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