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The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat
Plus: AI has uncovered a decade-old flaw threatening much of the web.
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How far can we push computing? On a December evening in 1959, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.”
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