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Kekke writes:
Gizmodo has the news: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s new foundry will produce 2-nanometer chips. Construction on the plant in Hsinchu, southwest from Taiwan’s capital of Taipei, is expected to start as soon as early 2022. In the meanwhile Intel will be rolling out 7nm chips toward the end of 2022 and into 2023. Will Intel have a Genie in the bottle or a rabbit in a hat ?? Doesn't seem so to Me.
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ARS Technica writes:
At a minimum, exploits would cause an operating-system crash and could possibly allow a hacker to gain complete control of the computer. The flaw dates back to version 3.10.1 of the Linux kernel released in 2013.
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Kekke writes:
Lots of buzz around this. Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov took routine samples from ISS's outside surface during spacewalk. These samples where analyzed and found to contain bacteria that must have come from somewhere else than earth or the space station itself... Independent has the story
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The register writes: Decision may kill off UK government spying law
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that mass surveillance is illegal, in a little-noticed case in Hungary.
In a judgment last week, the court ruled that the Hungarian government had violated article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to privacy) due to its failure to include "sufficiently precise, effective and comprehensive" measures that would limit surveillance to only people it suspected of crimes.
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Kekke writes:
Finnish researcher Mikko Mottonen @ Finnish Aalto university has introduced new kind of revolutionary results about the quantum world. Quantum knots may be the answer to many many problems including some @ the area of quantum computing.
Read more and watch the cool clip @x http://www.sci-news.com/physic...
