imperfections in news
FSF slams Microsoft OOXML standards vote tactics
News Greve claimed the OOXML format was both proprietary, potentially binding governments and other users to Microsoft in perpetuity, and contained serious imperfections. Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK, FSFE... [31 Aug 2007]
US cyber spies want more rights to snoop
News Senator Patrick Leahy, the committee's Democratic co-chairman, said of the proposal: "Whether or not Fisa is in need of fine-tuning is a legitimate consideration but Fisa's possible imperfections provide no excuse for... [27 Jul 2006]
Digital signatures could be forged, claim boffins
News Eli Biham and Rafi Chen, researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology, originally were scheduled to present a paper identifying ways to assail the security in the SHA-0 "Secure Hash Algorithm," which was known to have... [18 Aug 2004]
Intel in chip cancer detection research
News The goal is to determine if this technology, previously used to detect microscopic imperfections on silicon chips, can also detect subtle traces of disease. Intel and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre are... [23 Oct 2003]
AMD plays with Athlon cache
News Thorton also potentially boosts yield - or the number of good chips produced from a wafer - because Barton chips that come out of the factory with imperfections in one segment of the 512KB cache could be sold... [30 Jun 2003]
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