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Microcontrollers today are much more powerful and much more capable than the 8051s from back in the day. Now, they have awesome peripherals and USB device interfaces. It’s about time a slightly more ...

Twitter has patched a hack which directed users to third-party sites, including adult websites. The company's status feed identified the hack as a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, and said Twitter ...