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Computer Security: When CERN.CH is not CERN…

Just like on the envelope of a normal hand-written letter, any sender address can be specified. “CERN.CH” can easily be spoofed so that an e-mail looks like it comes from someone at CERN, but actually doesn’t

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Computing
31 October, 2019
Computing
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31 October, 2019

LS2 Report: Linac4 knocking at the door of the PS Booster

During a two-month test run that started at the end of September, Linac4 will send negative hydrogen ions up to the door of the PS Booster

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Accelerators
29 October, 2019
Accelerators
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29 October, 2019

CMS measures Higgs boson’s mass with unprecedented precision

The CMS collaboration reported the Higgs boson’s mass with a precision of about 0.1%

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Physics
25 October, 2019

Broadening tunnel vision for future accelerators

CERN’s civil engineers are tackling the tunnelling challenges of a post-LHC collider

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Engineering
23 October, 2019
Engineering
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23 October, 2019

Halfway towards LHC consolidation

One hundred and fifty people are hard at work upgrading the Large Hadron Collider’s superconducting magnets

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Accelerators
21 October, 2019
Accelerators
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21 October, 2019

Medipix: Two decades of turning technology into applications

The story of how detector components ended up in medical imaging, in art restoration and even in space

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Knowledge sharing
18 October, 2019
Knowledge sharing
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18 October, 2019

Computer Security: A new twist for those who rely on external software

If you take advantage of the plethora of software snippets, code excerpts, libraries and the like circulating on the Internet, don’t forget that there’s a risk: is the code safe? Bug-free? Maintained? And free of any malicious components?

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Computing
16 October, 2019

LS2 Report: renovation of the electrical infrastructure

Major renovation work is under way across the entirety of CERN’s electrical network to modernise certain key facilities

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Engineering
15 October, 2019
Engineering
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15 October, 2019

Moving out of Academia to Entrepreneurship

Six CERN alumni who started their own companies share experience and information on how to move to entrepreneurship

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Knowledge sharing
15 October, 2019
Knowledge sharing
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15 October, 2019

Celebrating LEP’s physics legacy

Thirty years ago, after just three weeks of operation, the experiments of the Large Electron-Positron collider announced their first spectacular result

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Physics
11 October, 2019
Physics
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11 October, 2019