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Busy Beavers: 10 things M.I.T. computer scientists have given the world

Apple devices held hostage using Find My iPhone

EBay flaw could be used to hijack accounts, researcher says

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May 27, 2014
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Busy Beavers: 10 things M.I.T. computer scientists have given the world

From TCP/IP to shooter video games, here are 10 things M.I.T.'s faculty, students, researchers and alums have contributed to computer science.

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1. Apple devices held hostage using Find My iPhone

2. EBay flaw could be used to hijack accounts, researcher says

3. Where's my robot butler? Good (high-tech) help is hard to find

4. A trip down Unix memory lane

5. Is Adobe Flash critical to the future of Linux?

6. Intel shakes up its chip design process

7. The most effective battery solution for Android: "Hey, this bright enough?"

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Apple devices held hostage using Find My iPhone

Hackers appear to be exploiting Apple's "Find My iPhone" service to lock up phones and tablets and send ransom demands to their owners. READ MORE

EBay flaw could be used to hijack accounts, researcher says

A security researcher who found a major vulnerability in eBay's website last week said a second flaw he found hasn't been fixed and could be used to hijack user accounts. READ MORE

Where's my robot butler? Good (high-tech) help is hard to find

If you're looking for signs of our collective robotic future, it's either terrifyingly near or forever just around the corner. READ MORE

A trip down Unix memory lane

Long before the Internet, the web, flat screen monitors, Google, Facebook, languages like Python and Ruby, interactive games, and wireless just about anything, some of us were fascinated by what we could do with large, clunky systems that today look more like dinosaurs to us than computers. READ MORE

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Is Adobe Flash critical to the future of Linux?

In today's open source roundup: Flash will no longer work on Chromium for Linux, and that's a good thing. Plus: Why use Linux as your operating system? And CoreOS becomes part of Google's cloud services. READ MORE

Intel shakes up its chip design process

New method will break up chip design into components for mix and match, something Qualcomm does. READ MORE

The most effective battery solution for Android: "Hey, this bright enough?"

Lux is an app that remembers just how bright you actually need your phone to be to see the screen. It saves you serious battery life in the long haul. READ MORE

Putting humans into suspended animation no longer sci-fi

Doctors to begin trials of "emergency preservation and resuscitation" techniques to help save trauma victims. READ MORE

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