April 21, 2004
Scientific American: The First Nanochips.
The desire for boosting the number of transistors on a chip and for running it faster explains why the semiconductor industry, just as it crossed into the new millennium, shifted from manufacturing microchips to making nanochips. How it quietly passed this milestone, and how it continues to advance, is an amazing story of people overcoming some of the greatest engineering challenges of our time...
News.Com: Net threat overstated, says security researcher.
Watson, who's scheduled to present that research here at the CanSecWest 2004 conference this week, referred to the media reaction as an "inordinate level of attention in respect to the amount of risk." At greatest risk, he said, may be e-commerce sites that manage their own routers...
EE Times: TCP vulnerability could lead to bigger gateway protocol problems.
A vulnerability in the Transmission Control Protocol discovered by researchers last year could cause greater than anticipated problems with inter-domain routing using the Border Gateway Protocol, the Department of Homeland Security warned this week.
News.Com: China, U.S. strike trade accord.
According to sources close to the negotiations, China agreed that it will not implement WAPI by its announced deadline and will indefinitely postpone enforcement of the WAPI directive. In the meantime, the country will work to revise and perfect the standard...
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