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A recent code grey – issued when there is an “infrastructure loss or failure” – declared at University Hospital after a power disruption was one of about 30 infrastructure-related code grey incidents ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

We love a good error code here at the Escapist. That’s the most dev of dev things of all, a code appearing on the screen to tell you something has gone wrong, but ...

Adding numbers to your passwords makes them more secure. In fact, most sites and services these days require alphanumeric passwords at the very least. Some people ...

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...

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