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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
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
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%
Broadening tunnel vision for future accelerators
CERN’s civil engineers are tackling the tunnelling challenges of a post-LHC collider
Halfway towards LHC consolidation
One hundred and fifty people are hard at work upgrading the Large Hadron Collider’s superconducting magnets
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
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?
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
Moving out of Academia to Entrepreneurship
Six CERN alumni who started their own companies share experience and information on how to move to entrepreneurship
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