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Uncrackable computer chips stop malicious bugs attacking your computer

8 August 2018

Cyberattacks target not just our phones and laptops, but hospitals, schools and power stations. A new security solution redesigns chips from the inside out
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We can stop hacking and trolls, but it would ruin the internet

9 August 2017

A new way to run the internet would scupper ransomware and hacking, but its authoritarian backers could control everything we do online

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