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AIDS researchers say they’re getting closer to cure

AIDS researchers say they’re getting closer to cure

Anna Rise/Getty Images/iStockphoto Scientists now believe surpressing the HIV/AIDS virus while bolstering the immune system is the best approach towards a potential cure. Scientists seeking a cure for AIDS say they have been inspired, not crushed, by a major setback in which two HIV positive patients believed to have been cured found the virus re-invading their bodies once more. True, ...

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Researchers crack the world’s toughest encryption by listening to the tiny sounds made by your computer’s CPU

Researchers crack the world’s toughest encryption by listening to the tiny sounds made by your computer’s CPU

Security researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening – yes, with a microphone — to a computer as it decrypts some encrypted data. The attack is fairly simple and can be carried out with rudimentary hardware. The repercussions for the average computer user are minimal, but if you’re a secret agent, power user, ...

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