HP is ‘printing’ drugs for the CDC to speed up antibiotic testing

At least 2 million people in the U.S. become infected with so-called “super bugs” and at least 23,000 people die as a direct result of these infections each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Now, HP’s Biohacker technology is working with the CDC on a pilot program to “print” and test antibiotics […]

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise to move HQ to San Jose

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving north from Palo Alto to San Jose. The company will relocate 1,000 employees to a 220,000-square-foot space in late 2018. HPE was spun-off from Hewlett-Packard in 2015 and is focused on servers and storage. This news comes months after HPE announced a different plan in which the company was moving […]

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Hundreds of HP computer models carry a deactivated keylogger

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In November, a computer programmer spotted some strange code while trying to control a backlit keyboard on a Hewlett-Packard laptop.

It was a keylogger — which if turned on by a hacker is capable of monitoring every keystroke you type and save this activity to a file. It’s a common hacking technique used to steal passwords, as Google recently noted in its year-long study on computer security. 

In this case, the code was not turned on, but TechCrunch nonetheless reported on programmer Michael Myng’s blog post about finding the deactivated keylogger. In his memo, Myng wrote that he notified HP of the presence of the keylogger’s presence. Read more…

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