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  1. Grey Havoc

    80th anniversary of ENIAC

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80-ieee-milestone https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80th-anniversary-weaving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
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  2. Grey Havoc

    Modelshop Greebles

    https://www.bigmediumsmall.com/modelshop-greebles (h/t publiusr)
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    • artwork astronomical art computer games computing model model making modeling sci-fi science fiction spacecraft
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    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  3. Grey Havoc

    Amazon services showing 'signs of recovery' after Snapchat and banks among sites hit by major outage (BBC News)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt
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    • 2025 amazon web services cloud computing cloud crash cold war ii computing history of the internet interesting times
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  4. Grey Havoc

    How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper (BBC)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly64g5y744o
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    • 2025 asahi breweries bbc beer cold war ii computing cyber war cyber warfare japan
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  5. Grey Havoc

    Afghanistan sees telecom shutdown as Taliban cut off internet (BBC News)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo
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    • 2025 bbc cold war ii computing history of the internet interesting times islamic emirate of afghanistan telecommunications
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  6. Grey Havoc

    EU cyber agency says airport software held to ransom by criminals (BBC News)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjeej85452o
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    • 2025 airports civil aviation cold war ii computer security computing cyber war cyber warfare cyberwar european union
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  7. Reddington777

    Ultra-wide Band Gap Semiconductors

    Starting this thread specifically to follow new technology and updates for ultra-wide band gap semiconductors including but not limited to Ga_2_O3 (gallium oxide), AIN (aluminum nitride), and Diamond. China has been making strides in this area with reports indicating a demo 8mm wafer size of...
  8. GTX

    How The Martian was written, with Andy Weir

    Quite amusing: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXD3b6OLtsg
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  9. Grey Havoc

    Gabe Newell buys yacht builder Oceanco

    https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/gabe-newell-acquires-yacht-company-building-the-usd400-million-ocean-fortress-hell-pick-up-later-this-year-because-he-respects-the-sea/ https://www.boatinternational.com/boat-pro/news/oceanco-yacht-builder-sold-to-gabe-newell...
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    • 2025 computer games computing early 21st century kingdom of the netherlands late 2020s oceanco oceanco yachts shipbuilding superyacht united states
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  10. Grey Havoc

    Android Earthquake Alerts (Google)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx304go
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  11. J

    AI bot infects this forum - first? Certainly not last.

    This account kearawill is a bot, an AI that joined this forum to spam links to a real estate website, which itself may or may not be a scam. I first noticed this post, which reads like AI. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/a-modern-cruiser.36437/post-807977 ChatGPT tends to speak in the...
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  12. D

    Buran Orbiters OK-GLI and and OK-1K avionics

    Hello! I was wondering what information there is about the CRT screens in the Buran orbiters, or even if they were even functional
  13. dannydale

    I'm back, also YouTube has an annoying new thing for all of us to be forced to care about.

    Yeah, "Source Identifier" what a boatload of hotdog water.
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  14. T

    Tron: Ares (2025)

    Stumbled upon this the other day: an epic 3rd episode of Legendary movie Tron, first released in 1982, where the Digital world permeates the real one. Seems Filming wrapped on May 1st (see wiki link below). Without any doubt, a must see. (release date October 2025) View...
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  15. Grey Havoc

    Intel and Microsoft Staff Allegedly Lured To Work For Fake Chinese Company In Taiwan (The Register)

    Via Slashdot: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/china_disguised_tech_companies_taiwan/
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    • 2020s 2025 cold war ii computing intel corp. microsoft corporation people's republic of china republic of china smic taiwan yunhe zhiwang (shanghai) technology co.
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    • Forum: Military
  16. overscan (PaulMM)

    My New Laptop - Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 (ARM CPU)

    My HP laptop's keyboard died, the keys 1, q, a, z and Tab all not working. This was VERY annoying. It was getting a little old, so I bought myself a new laptop and will get the old one repaired eventually to pass to my daughter. I looked at a bunch of laptops and it was a tossup between Apple...
  17. E

    OpenAI, Anduril partner on AI drone-defense plan

    Skynet anyone? https://www.axios.com/2024/12/04/openai-anduril-ai-drone-defense-pentagon
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  18. E

    New York semiconductor site picked for $825 million in funding

    https://apnews.com/article/new-york-semiconductor-nanotech-lab-albany-42ee39316c32718c729e526354254724
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  19. M

    ARM cancelling ISA licenses to Qualcomm

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/arm-to-cancel-qualcomm-chip-design-license-in-escalation-of-feud Actual nuclear bomb. Probably wouldn't actually happen, since it sounds more like a big bargaining chip, but potentially a huge turning point for the chip industry, and especially...
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  20. E

    What the Heck Is Going On At OpenAI?

    I liked the mention of "Skynet scenarios." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sam-altman-openai-1236023979/
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    • 2024 artificial intelligence cold war ii computing software based a.i. united states
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