In October 2016, the Dirty CoW vulnerability in the Linux kernel was discovered that exploited a race condition in its copy-on-write mechanism. On September 26, 2016, Yahoo confirmed that in 2014 that the account information of around 500 million users was stolen by hackers in a network breach.
In August 2016, Dropbox began to force password resets after discovering that over 68 million accounts were being shared from an earlier 2012 attack.
The IFTF (Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation) is a nonprofit organization founded on June 30, 2016.Įthereum Classic, a cryptocurrency, was released in July 2016. The computer can perform around 93,000 trillion calculations per second. On June 20, 2016, the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer from China topped the list of the world's most powerful computer. Other computer events in 2016ĮZchip Semiconductor merged with Mellanox Technologies on February 23, 2016. The company says the decision could cost the company as much as $3 billion. On October 11, 2016, Samsung announced it was permanently discontinuing the production of the Galaxy Note 7 after several of the early versions and recalled versions were catching on fire. Although AlphaGo won the championship, Lee did win the fourth game. On March 12, 2016, AlphaGo, a DeepMind AI from Google beats Go champion Lee Se-dol for the third straight time at playing the ancient Chinese board game of Go. Computer-related movies released in 2016.Discontinued products and services in 2016.New computer products and services introduced in 2016.