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Facit mechanical calculators and other devices
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJPMIjVGzd0 From the comments thread:- Grey Havoc
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- ab addo åtvidabergs industrier cold war computing electromechanical devices facit ab kingdom of sweden mechanical calculators swedish board for computing machinery the besk boys
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Arm job cuts hit UK harder than global rationalization (The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/05/arm_job_cuts_hit_uk/- Grey Havoc
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- advanced risc machines ltd arm ltd computer architecture computing early 2020s semiconductor chip softbank united kingdom
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China upgrades its Great Firewall
Via Slashdot: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/06/great_firewall_of_china_upgrades/- Grey Havoc
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- 2022 censorship computing cyberwar early 21st century golden shield project history of the internet information warfare ministry of public security people's republic of china
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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.- Grey Havoc
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- cloud computing computing cyber warfare cyberwar early 2020s hacking late 2010s ransomware united states
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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...- Grey Havoc
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- 2022 cloud computing cold war ii computing europe european union interesting times
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Google is shutting down Stadia (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023- Grey Havoc
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- cloud computing computer games computing early 2020s
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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- Grey Havoc
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- 2022 cloud computing computing
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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- Forest Green
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- computing early 2020s early 21st century
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Computer generated Concorde artwork from 1969
https://www.facebook.com/groups/871581506332470- overscan (PaulMM)
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- 1969 aerospace industry airliner aviation art british aircraft corporation civil aviation cold war computing great britain late 1960s supersonic supersonic transport
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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...- UpForce
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- a2ad aerospace defense command air defence air defense command antiaircraft aviation history computer computing interceptor north american aerospace defense command nuclear battlefield radar sage semi-automatic ground environment strategic defence united states air force
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Log4Shell
https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01- Grey Havoc
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- 2021 cloud computing computer security computing cve-2021-44228 history of the internet interesting times remote code execution world wide web zero day exploit
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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... -
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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/ -
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Facebook, WhatApp and Instagram down....
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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/...- Grey Havoc
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- 2021 20th century 21st century computer computer architecture computing cybernetics great britain popular culture
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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...- Brett Davidson
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- cold war ii computing cyber warfare cyberwar electronic warfare interesting times
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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- Grey Havoc
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- 2021 21st century cloud computing computing cyber warfare cyberwar data breach hacking interesting times
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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...- Grey Havoc
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- 2021 computing critical infrastructure cyber warfare cybernetics cyberwar electronic warfare hacking interesting times ransomware united states
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IBM 2nm microchip technology
ORIGINAL CAPTION: Transistors on the IBM "nanosheet" it uses for the new tech https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57009930- Grey Havoc
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- 2021 21st century computer chip computing cybernetics international business machines microprocessors semiconductor chip
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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...- keithwwalker
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- archived magazines aviation news aviation week and space technology computing history of the internet
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