#88 How Arm conquered the chip market without making a single chip

How Arm conquered the chip market without making a single chip

Arm is everywhere, including your iPhone. Haas explains what exactly the chip design company does.

Ken Thompson Really Did Launch His "Trusting Trust" Trojan Attack in Real Life

Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler Trojan attack was not just a thought experiment. In fact, Usenet poster Jay Ashworth stated that, from personal communications, Thompson really did launch this attack in real life and successfully compromised the Unix Support Group at Bell Labs. Recently, I've rediscovered this original message with full message headers in a search effort using various Usenet archives, showing the authenticity of the post.

Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition move

Penpot, an open source platform for designers and developers, got a big spike after the Adobe-Figma deal. Now it's raised $8M in funding.

Intel and Samsung are getting ready for “slidable” PCs

Samsung Display and Intel are working on “slidable” PCs. During Intel’s Innovation keynote today, Samsung Display CEO JS Choi appeared onstage to show off a prototype PC that slides from a 13-inch tablet into a 17-inch display.

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