Oracle Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in PeopleSoft Applications

Oracle has released out-of-band security patches for a component used by multiple ERP applications from its PeopleSoft suite. The updates fix five vulnerabilities, including two critical ones that can be exploited to access data from or completely comp… Continue reading Oracle Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in PeopleSoft Applications

Retrotechtacular: The Incredibly Difficult Task of Copying a Document

It seems hard to imagine, but in the early part of the 20th century, there weren’t a lot of great options for creating copies of documents. The most common method was to use carbon paper to create multiple copies at once from a typewriter or a line printer. All that changed with a company called Haloid. Never heard of them? They later became the Xerox company.

The underlying technology dates back to 1938 (invented by a physicist who was also a lawyer). In 1944, they produced a practical copier and shortly thereafter sold the rights to Haloid. The Haloid company …read more

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