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Years later there was another port of OpenSolaris to IBM Power computers called "Polaris": https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/10/solaris_on_power/ And even port to IBM z/VM ("Si…

I was under impression that "28 pages" document was mostly declassified? Or this is some another documents?

And folks with access to Mentor (Advanced Orion) likely can clone keys from other side of the planet

That requires generating and burning keys to devices during manufacturing. This process will be hacked by NSA & all, exactly like Gemalto https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/f…

This is a world after QUANTUMINSERT for you. Somehow everything should be encrypted but key management are still unsolved

People sometimes like challenge in their lives. See Everest climbing & etc

Cell processor shipped for commercial installation in the IBM Blades QS20/QS21/QS22, which was based on Roadrunner supercomputer. Sony also demoed rack-mount with Cell ( https://en…

Article picture is an IBM iDataPlex system.

That was definetely not a big data environment

Turn of millennium was era before of SSL/TLS. Livejournal did not want to send clear text password during login to the site. SRP was patent encumbered (and anyway implementing prop…

The usual problem is not shutting down the reactor: both TMI and Fukushima was properly shutdown. Important task is cooling down the core (and SFP) after that. Left on its own, hal…

You might find source of Xv6 - educational version of unix - useful. Here is their implementation of cat, all 44 lines of it: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/blob/master/cat…

Reported murders. We mostly do not know what happens in Africa

Previous analysis of CTBTO hydrophone data (augmented with IMOS, Australian SOSUS clone) back in 2014: https://www.nature.com/news/sound-clue-in-hunt-for-mh370-1.1...

There is better pictures and explanation at TEPCO site: https://www7.tepco.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/handouts_190213_...

Last year S/A wrote pretty interesting article about this situation: https://semiaccurate.com/2017/11/06/qualcomm-opens-apple-leg...

Surprised to see USB-C connector. Has it gone mainstream all the way in place of Type-A?

Unsurprisingly there is no Google container for Firefox

Hard to believe. Worldwide production of Californium is just a few milligrams per year.

Estimating production volume from serial numbers? Looks like a job for a German tank problem: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/20/german_tank_problem...

That situation can be easily fixed in RPM-based Linux with rpm --setperms and rpm --setugids. Correction will be little harder on Debian derivatives and whole incident can be compl…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-...

Switzerland Cryptostory worth remembering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG#Compromised_machines

I do not think so. Public service must make money somehow. Most times it is advertisment so js required. Sometimes it is spionage, but they must look like usual thing. Get a hostin…