MIT researchers uncover vulnerability in a hardware-level security mechanism utilized in Apple M1 chips called pointer authentication codes, or PAC.

The tech giant is considered to be a bellwether among large companies for employment practices, and is likely to be emulated by other big employers.

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June of 2022 marks the twentieth anniversary – yes – TWENTIETH – of the publication of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), documented in RFC 3261 . When it was published in June of 2002, it...

Consumer prices rose at the fastest rate in four decades in May, the Labor Department said Friday.

Even with a lot of help from a good text editor, writing HTML can be a drag. Nice documents end up as tag-swamps with little bits of content perched atop hills of tabs. Editing them becomes a test of patience and we get sick at the thought of having to look…

This model uses the slope of the yield curve, or the “term spread” between long- and short-term interest rates, to calculate the probability of a recession in the United States twelve months ahead.

The pandemic reshaped modern life in many ways. Over two years later, we still see ongoing shifts to urban centers. With remote and hybrid work here to stay, thriving careers in the tech industry do not depend on living in traditional technology capitals…

“What we found is actually quite fundamental,” says MIT's Mengjia Yan. “It’s a class of attack. Not one bug.”

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A new CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function using a tool called Perturb-seq. The work was led by Jonathan Weissman and colleagues at MIT and the Whitehead Institute, and is free for other scientists to use.

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On a summer's day a trip in a hot tube train is a dreadful experience, but how did we end up with such hot tube trains, and what's being done about it?

Three months into his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president drew parallels between Peter the Great’s founding of St Petersburg and his own modern-day ambitions.