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Hacking a Secure Air-Gapped Computer
Some security weaknesses would be hilarious if they weren’t so serious. And one man and his crack research team have found dozens of surprising ways…
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An AI Storm is Coming as Analog AI Surfaces in Sensors
I worry that when writing these columns, I sometimes start by meandering my way off into the weeds, cogitating and ruminating on “this and that”…
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Neuromorphic Revolution
According to tech folklore, Carver Mead actually coined the term “Moore’s Law” – some ten years or so after the publication of Gordon Moore’s landmark…
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Security Flaw Afflicts Intel x86 Boot ROMs
Another year, another Intel bug. What makes this bug interesting is that it’s so crafty. It’s fun to see what loopholes hardware and software can…
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Decapitating Malware with Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) Technology
As you may imagine, I receive an eye-watering number of emails each and every day. To give you an idea as to the size of…
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Contractually Obligated Year-End Article
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” – Grace Hopper You’re probably not reading this article. You’ve got better…
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Esperanto AI Chip Exploits Thousands of Minions
“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” – Jean Baudrillard It’s turtles all the way down. That’s the…
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Say Hello to Deep Vision’s Polymorphic Dataflow Architecture
Over the years (actually, decades, now I come to think about it), I’ve seen a lot of great silicon chip architectures and technologies pop up…
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Tiny Firm Makes Super-Fast RISC-V
“Racing makes heroin addiction seem like a faint craving for something salty.” — Peter Egan What do a tiny 10-person engineering firm and zillion-employee Apple…
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Lattice Launches Mach-NX
Pop Quiz – which FPGA company has sold the most devices? Nope, wrong. Guess again. And… wrong again. Neither Xilinx nor Altera/Intel, despite hovering around…