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FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware
Despite certain challenges, FPGAs provide security and performance benefits over ASICs.
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Toward Confidential Cloud Computing
Extending hardware-enforced cryptographic protection to data while in use.
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Battery Day
A closer look at the technology that makes portable electronics possible.
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Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing
From thingamabobs to rockets, 3D printing takes many forms.
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The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
Hitting a nerve with field-programmable gate arrays.
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future
The evolution of tricky user interfaces.
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Is Persistent Memory Persistent?
A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.
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The Best Place to Build a Subway
Building projects despite (and because of) existing complex systems.
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Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller
If the CPU is the brain of the board, the BMC is the brain stem.
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The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
Understanding enterprise reliability.
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Hack for Hire
Investigating the emerging black market of retail email account hacking services.
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API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
Application programming interfaces speak louder than words.
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Identity by Any Other Name
The complex cacophony of intertwined systems.
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