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Submission + - NeXT desperately needed the sales and the CIA needed the high-end workstations (wsj.com)

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regoli writes: In the mid-1980s Steve Jobs was getting NeXT off the ground. Then the CIA called asking to use the company’s fledgling yet high-end workstations for its top secret projects. The Wall Street Journal has the excerpt from “Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War”, a new book by Sharon Weinberger and published by Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

Submission + - Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect cocreator, dies at 76 (wsj.com)

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regoli writes: Bruce Wayne Bastian was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, to Arlon and Una Bastian on March 23, 1948. Along with Alan Ashton, a computer-science professor at Brigham Young University in the mid-1970s, Bastian and Ashton went on to create WordPerfect, the dominant word-processing software in the 1980s and early ’90s and one of the first pieces of software many Americans bought when they brought home their first PCs.

Submission + - University of Michigan Halts Internet During First Week of Classes (insidehighered.com)

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regoli writes: The University of Michigan cut off internet access and online services across all three of its campuses early this week to ward off a potential cyberattack, leaving students and faculty in digital limbo during the first week of classes. According to the story from Inside Higher Ed, "The FBI’s Detroit field office would not confirm the existence of an investigation into the attack, but the FBI is aware of the outage and prepared to provide assistance if U-M requests it, said Mara Schneider, public affairs officer at the Detroit FBI office."

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