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The open-source software underlying critical infrastructure — from financial systems to public utilities to emergency services and electronic health records — is vulnerable to malicious cyberattacks.

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Math Whiteboard is a browser-based collaborative whiteboard designed specifically for mathematics instruction. Teachers and students can work together in real time using handwriting recognition, ...

Perplexity on 25 February introduced “Perplexity Computer,” a new artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to act as a general-purpose digital worker capable of planning and executing complex ...

Through the looking glass: When software historians talk about preserving the roots of modern computing, they usually mean source code or documentation. Now, they can mean the computers themselves – ...

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