computing

  1. Grey Havoc

    Facit mechanical calculators and other devices

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJPMIjVGzd0 From the comments thread:
  2. Grey Havoc

    Arm job cuts hit UK harder than global rationalization (The Register)

    https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/05/arm_job_cuts_hit_uk/
  3. Grey Havoc

    China upgrades its Great Firewall

    Via Slashdot: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/06/great_firewall_of_china_upgrades/
  4. Grey Havoc

    Former Uber security chief convicted for concealing a felony (BBC)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63157883 Intended by the U.S. authorities as a 'Pour encourager les autres' moment, it would seem.
  5. Grey Havoc

    Europe Braces For Mobile Network Blackouts (Reuters)

    Via Slashdot: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-europe-braces-mobile-network-blackouts-sources-2022-09-29/ Things may be even worse than they think, there are a fair few computer systems that rely at least in part on mobile phone networks, not to mention reliance on...
  6. Grey Havoc

    Google is shutting down Stadia (The Verge)

    https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023
  7. Grey Havoc

    Twitch is temporarily restricting browser support to just Chrome, Edge, and Firefox (The Verge)

    https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378228/twitch-bot-error-restriction-browser-support-chrome-edge-firefox
  8. Forest Green

    Supercomputers - ExaFLOPS barrier falls

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500#TOP_500 https://www.ornl.gov/news/frontier-supercomputer-debuts-worlds-fastest-breaking-exascale-barrier
  9. overscan (PaulMM)

    Computer generated Concorde artwork from 1969

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/871581506332470
  10. U

    SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), arsTECHNICA article, 1/4/2022, by Frank O'Brien

    Here's a somewhat thorough article about SAGE, the "Semi-Automatic Ground Environment" system co-ordinating air defense over North America from 1958, parts of it surviving operational up until the early 1980s...
  11. Grey Havoc

    Log4Shell

    https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01
  12. U

    NATO formulates its first AI strategy

    https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_187934.htm The strategy has a fourfold aim: To provide a responsible foundation for its use, acceleration and mainstreaming of technology, protection and monitoring of technologies, identifying and safeguarding against malicious use. Principles of...
  13. E

    Bitcoin and cryptocurrency

    The ongoing effort to collect real money in return for nothing. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walmart-bitcoin-kiosks-coinstar-coinme-cryptocurrency/
  14. P

    Facebook, WhatApp and Instagram down....

    Some hilarious messages popping up on Twitter.....
  15. Grey Havoc

    Sir Clive Sinclair, RIP (1940 - 2021)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58587521 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29985976 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09w8lz6 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/16/sir-clive-sinclair-inventor-early-pocket-calculator-transformed/...
  16. Brett Davidson

    Cyberwar, Navigation, etc.

    I'm sorry to see that the 'Russia Fires Warning Shots at British Destroyer in the Black Sea' thread has been locked. Leaving aside the nationalist tone that arose in some comment, perhaps there's potential in discussing navigation technologies and cyberwar under the Secret Projects banner...
  17. Grey Havoc

    LinkedIn suffers major security breach

    Via the TechNewsToday reddit: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/linkedin-data-breach-hack-700-million-92-percent-users-personal-information-sold-online-report-2475268
  18. Grey Havoc

    Colonial Pipeline cyberattack

    https://news.trust.org/item/20210508152642-o9z7n https://it.slashdot.org/story/21/05/08/177226/cyberattack-forces-major-us-pipeline-company-to-halt-operations https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57050690 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57063636...
  19. Grey Havoc

    IBM 2nm microchip technology

    ORIGINAL CAPTION: Transistors on the IBM "nanosheet" it uses for the new tech https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57009930
  20. K

    Internet Archive - classic aviation magazines (Aviation Week, Flight etc.)

    Aviation News Archive: Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine has an archive for a fee service on their website. Archive.org actually has the same content for free. There are PDF format available, but it is low resolution. To get the highest resolution, choose CBZ format (which is a zip...
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