When mathematicians Leland McInnes and John Healy walked into their work’s annual “Big Dig” — a sort of classified hackathon for Canada’s version of the National Security Agency — in 2017, they were ...
1. On January 30, 1982, computer programmer Richard Skrenta wrote the world’s first computer virus that ‘escaped’ to other networks. Among other things, the virus would display a poem about itself ...