computing

  1. Grey Havoc

    China upgrades its Great Firewall

    Via Slashdot: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/06/great_firewall_of_china_upgrades/
  2. 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.
  3. 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...
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Grey Havoc

    Log4Shell

    https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01
  8. 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/...
  9. 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...
  10. 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
  11. 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...
  12. 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
  13. 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...
  14. 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
  15. Grey Havoc

    Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (DARPA)

    https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05/darpa-seeks-secure-microchip-supply-chain/
  16. Flyaway

    Quantum Computing Thread

    Article for putting this leaked news in prospective. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-quantum-computers-supremacy
  17. Flyaway

    Elon Musk’s Neuralink

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/technology/neuralink-elon-musk.html
  18. Grey Havoc

    OGAS - a planned Soviet national computer network

    The full name was 'The All-State Automated System for the Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning and Governance of the National Economy, USSR' (OGAS being a Russian acronym for the first four words). It has been described as the 'Soviet Internet'. It might be more...
  19. S

    Think faster: advantages of quantum processing shown in head-to-head race

    Think faster: advantages of quantum processing shown in head-to-head race scientists show a clear advantage to a prototype quantum processor over a classical processor in solving a machine learning algorithm A prototype quantum processor repeatedly beat a traditional, classical processor in a...
  20. S

    Chinese scientists make quantum leap in computing

    Xinhua, May 3, 2017 Adjust font size: Chinese scientists have built world's first quantum computing machine that goes beyond the early classical -- or conventional -- computers, paving the way to the ultimate realization of quantum computing beating classical computers. Scientists announced...
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