TSMC last week announced that it had started high volume production (HVM) of chips using their first-gen 7 nm (CLN7FF) process technology. The contract maker of semiconductors says it has over a dozen of customers with tens of designs eager to use the technology to make their integrated circuits. The 7 nm node is a…
Between 11am until 1pm UTC today, DNS traffic — the phone book of the internet, routing you to your favourite websites — was hijacked by an unknown actor. The attackers used BGP — a key protocol used for routing internet traffic around the world — to reroute traffic to Amazon’s Route 53 service, the largest commercial cloud provider who count major websites such…
By and Updated on The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an administrative review system that has helped Google Inc., Apple Inc. and other companies invalidate hundreds of issued patents. The justices, voting 7-2 on Tuesday, said a review board that critics call a patent “death squad” wasn’t unconstitutionally wielding powers that belong to the courts. Silicon…
In 1988, to mark the 900th anniversary of the founding of the University of Bologna, Europe’s oldest university, 388 rectors and heads of universities drew up the Magna Charta Universitatum. This was a brief general declaration of the nature of universities and their purpose. The first principle was: “The university is an autonomous institution at…
How Europe’s New Privacy Rules Favor Google and Facebook – WSJ Big tech companies gain while smaller online ad firms are squeezed under the European Union’s GDPR, which takes effect in May. April 23, 2018 10:18 p.m. ET When the European Union’s justice commissioner traveled to California to meet with Google and Facebook last fall,…
README.md Muffet is a website link checker which scrapes and inspects all pages in a website recursively. Features Massive speed Colored outputs Different tags support (a, img, link) Installation go get -u github.com/raviqqe/muffet Usage muffet https://shady.bakery.hotland For more information, see muffet –help. License MIT
There is a borderland between waking life and the uncharted wilderness of sleep that we all traverse each night, but we rarely stop to marvel at the strangeness of this liminal world. If we do, we find that it is full of hallucinations both wonderful and terrifying, a mental goulash of reality and fantasy. Usually…
Prototype wind turbines whirl at a testing site in Osterild, near the northern end of Denmark’s Jutland peninsula. By Rasmus Degnbol OSTERILD, Denmark — At the northern end of Denmark’s Jutland peninsula, the wind blows so hard that rows of trees grow in one direction, like gnarled flags. The relentless weather over this long strip of…