RIP: Gordon Moore, 94

While Gordon may not be a household name, you might be familiar with a little company that he co-founded a lot of years ago: Intel.

He also coined the phrase Moore's Law, in which he states that transistor density will double about every 18 months. And it was largely proven correct. Now, the interesting thing is that he posited Moore's Law BEFORE the integrated circuit was invented!

He had an interesting life, which included him working with Robert Shockley, a person whose name should be familiar with anyone heavily interested in electronics: he won the Nobel Prize as one of the co-inventors of the TRANSISTOR.

Gordon founded a philanthropic organization that gave out over $5 billion in grants and such in the San Francisco area.

Sounds like one heck of a life.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gordon-moore-dead_n_641ebdbce4b0b8ee3bd25f05

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/gordon-moore-obituary.html

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/03/25/0044230/intel-co-foundercreator-of-moores-law-gordon-moore-dies-at-age-94

Pwn2Own is upon us again, and Tesla gave away a Model 3 for being hacked twice!

Tesla is a sponsor this year and gamely threw their hat/car into the ring. And were hacked twice by the same team of security researchers.

The first hack involved the charging system, and enabled them to open the doors and the frunk (front trunk). They were awarded the car for this particular hack. The second hack was through the infotainment system. Either hack was enough to render the car unsafe.

One of the key elements of this competition is the teams reveal all their hacking techniques for this attack to the system owners so they can improve the security of their systems. And the teams are pretty well compensated for their work.

This is nothing new with Tesla, their cars have been hacked before, and I just posted the article about the two guys parking side by side and driving away with each other's cars.

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-hack-hackers-model-3-elon-musk-hackathon-1850263319