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  1. Grey Havoc

    Meta Galactica (ill-fated large language model project)

    Via Slashdot: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/
  2. Grey Havoc

    Project Origin (U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center)

    https://breakingdefense.com/2022/10/lightning-in-a-bottle-inside-the-origin-of-the-armys-future-robotic-fleet/ ORIGINAL CAPTION: The Project Origin vehicle, a surrogate for Army Robotic Combat Vehicles, is seen at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in September 2021...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • computing cybernetics early 2020s late 2010s robotic combat vehicle robotics u.s. army united states army unmanned ground combat vehicle unmanned ground vehicle
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Military
  3. Grey Havoc

    Facit mechanical calculators and other devices

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJPMIjVGzd0 From the comments thread:
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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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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  4. 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/
    • 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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    • Forum: The Bar
  5. Grey Havoc

    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
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Military
  6. 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.
    • Grey Havoc
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    • cloud computing computing cyber warfare cyberwar early 2020s hacking late 2010s ransomware united states
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    • Forum: The Bar
  7. 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...
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    • 2022 cloud computing cold war ii computing europe european union interesting times
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  8. 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
    • Grey Havoc
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    • cloud computing computer games computing early 2020s
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    • Forum: The Bar
  9. 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
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 2022 cloud computing computing
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    • Forum: The Bar
  10. 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
    • Forest Green
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    • computing early 2020s early 21st century
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Military
  11. Grey Havoc

    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
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: The Bar
  12. 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/...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 2021 20th century 21st century computing cybernetics great britain
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: The Bar
  13. Rhinocrates

    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...
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    • cold war ii computing cyber warfare cyberwar electronic warfare interesting times
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    • Forum: Military
  14. 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
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 2021 21st century cloud computing computing cyber warfare cyberwar data breach hacking interesting times social media
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  15. 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...
    • 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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    • Forum: Military
  16. 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
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 2021 21st century computer chip computing cybernetics international business machines microprocessors semiconductor chip
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  17. 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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    • archived magazines aviation news aviation week and space technology computing history of the internet
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    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  18. Grey Havoc

    Adobe Flash Player finally bows out

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55497353 https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/01/01/029259/its-game-over-for-farmville-as-flash-also-buys-the-farm https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/12/31/0217256/adobe-now-shows-alerts-in-windows-10-to-uninstall-flash-player
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1990s 1996 2010s 2020 2021 computing history of the internet
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  19. Grey Havoc

    Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (DARPA)

    https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05/darpa-seeks-secure-microchip-supply-chain/
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 2020 2024 cold war ii computer architecture computer security computing cyber warfare cyberwar darpa defense advanced research projects agency electronic warfare electronics information warfare microprocessors security engine system-on-chip united states
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Military
  20. Flyaway

    Quantum Computing Thread

    Article for putting this leaked news in prospective. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-quantum-computers-supremacy
    • Flyaway
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    • 21st century computer architecture computing quantum computing quantum information science quantum mechanics
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: The Bar
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