Programmers, sysadmins, security researchers, and tech hobbyists copying-pasting commands from web pages into a console or terminal are warned they risk having their system compromised. A technologist ...

It’s strange to imagine where we’d be if we didn’t have Larry Tesler’s cut, copy, and paste commands. They’re so rudimentary to modern computer functions, and yet there was a time they didn’t exist.

Computer scientist Larry Tesler, known as the inventor behind the "cut," "copy," and "paste" commands, has died at the age of 74. His contributions to modern technology have made personal computers ...