What takes coders months, CSAIL’s “Helium” can do in an hour. Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL July 9, 2015 Last year, MIT computer scientists and Adobe engineers came together to try to solve a major problem that many companies face: bit-rot. A good example is Adobe’s successful Photoshop photo editor, which just celebrated its 25th birthday. […]

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The hackers who stole personal data on 4 million government employees from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management sneaked past a sophisticated counter-hacking system called Einstein 3, a highly-touted, multimillion-dollar and mostly secret technology that’s been years in the making. It’s behind schedule, the result of inter-agency fights over privacy, control and other matters, and […]

Quantum computing pioneer Ivan H. Deutsch explains why analog quantum simulators may beat out general-purpose digital quantum machines for now By Peter Byrne and Quanta Magazine | May 6, 2015 In 1995, Ivan H. Deutsch joined the physics faculty at the University of New Mexico, where he works on unclassified ways to control quantum bits […]

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Let’s imagine you’ve always found Lego computers cool and woke up today wanting to make one of your own. In that case, congratulations: Mike Schropp from Total Geekdomjust published a design for a small (but powerful) PC that’s perfect for you. Schropp went for the smallest design that could still house the latest Intel i3, […]

A Justice Department proposal that could make it easier to locate and hack into computers that are part of criminal investigations is raising constitutional concerns from privacy groups and Google, who fear the plan could have broad implications. Federal prosecutors say their search warrant proposal is needed at a time when computer users are committing […]

By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER March 3, 2015 12:41 p.m. ET There are two types of hard drives: those about to fail, and those that will fail eventually. Plan accordingly. I learned this in my great photo catastrophe of 2012. On vacation in Italy with a fancy-pants camera, I saved gigabytes and gigabytes of Tuscan sunsets […]