When Computers Attack

We all know that writing software is hard and that it's easy to introduce bugs into a complex system---ask the HealthCare.gov guys. But when those bugs can literally kill you, there are problems.  Toyota's Engine Control Module firmware is one such case.  Given that I like Toyota, it hurts even worse. As long as it's…

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Hot off the presses: four hundred years is a long time

Today is the День народного единство (Day of National Unification) here in Russia. It celebrates the end of the "Time of Troubles." By the way, that phrase is one of the greatest understatements of all time. The Time of Troubles was a period lasting from 1598 to 1613 in which Russia basically coupled a civil…