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y December 02, 2025 @01:46PM
bobdevine writes: A Chinese group found superconductivity up to 96 K under high pressure in bilayer nickelate single crystals. The difference is that they synthesized the material at ambient pressure.
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ay November 08, 2025 @10:56PM
bobdevine writes: Univ. of Utah found and old 9-track tape that might be the only full copy of V4 Unix from 1973.
It will be analyzed at the Computer History Museum.
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bobdevine
October 26, 2025 @01:02AM
bobdevine writes: A worker fell into a reactor pool at the Palisades plant in Michigan. Scary quote: "They ingested some amount of cavity water."
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm...
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bybobdevine
8, 2025 @02:45PM
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Attached to: Will AI Mean Bring an End to Top Programming Language Rankings?
Prediction -- programming with SQL will be replaced by natural language prompts. And SQL's rank as a language will drop.
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day July 16, 2025 @12:53PM
bobdevine writes: Linux desktops reach 5% of market share in the USA.
https://ostechnix.com/linux-re...
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25 @05:47PM
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Attached to: Why It's Time To Invest In Quantum Cybersecurity Now
Don't worry -- a dog can match current quantum factoring:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1...
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y June 10, 2025 @03:50PM
bobdevine writes: 12 years ago a baby was born after somebody used bitcoin to pay for a frozen egg IVF.
https://money.cnn.com/2013/06/...
"I, for one, welcome ..."
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5 @02:55PM
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Attached to: Charter To Buy Cox For $21.9 Billion Amid Escalating War With Wireless
In another step towards sector consolidation, the merger of Verizon and Frontier was approved today.
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bybobdevine
2025 @12:30AM
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Attached to: Scientists Debate Actual Weight of the Internet
An important point is that the weight of the internet follows the daily usage pattern -- internet activity is much higher on the daylight hemisphere as many more people are awake so their internet traffic increases the weight.
This means: the ever-heavier daylight burdens will cause an unbalanced wobble in the planet as it rotates. Because the weight of the internet increases year by year, the wobble will worsen and the Earth will eventually escape its orbit. We're all gonna die...
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bybobdevine
2025 @11:59AM
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Attached to: How an Electrical Fire Shut Down Heathrow and Upended Global Air Travel
A MP tells why the backup failed:
https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/19...
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bybobdevine
2025 @03:05PM
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Attached to: D-Wave Claims 'Quantum Supremacy,' Beating Traditional Computers
My prediction -- conventional computers will continue to be used for problems with precise answers, but quantum computers will be used for probabilistic answers.
For example, quantum computers might help in weather forecasts.
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bybobdevine
2024 @01:28AM
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Attached to: Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue That Makes Memories Stick For a Lifetime
A much better memory chemical is ... um what was I saying?
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y August 20, 2024 @03:06PM
bobdevine writes: Linux continues to (slowly) grow.
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2024 @09:59PM
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Attached to: Mike Karels, of 4.4 BSD Fame, Has Died
If a "zero-day" attack is when an attack comes on the same day a vulnerability is found, what is it called when an attack emerges before a product has even shipped?
Somebody has posted code to dump out the contents of a CoPilot+ Recall database:
https://github.com/xaitax/Tota...
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2024 @12:29AM
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Attached to: California Is Grappling With a Growing Problem: Too Much Solar
Actually, the "duck curve" is a monster that dominates the grid during the day.
https://www.gridstatus.io/live...
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