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World Computer Day: 80 Jahre ENIAC
Vor 80 Jahren wurde ENIAC der Welt vorgestellt. Nicht der erste, aber der wichtigste Computer seiner Zeit.
https://www.heise.de/news/World-Computer-D

Another banger by J. B. Crawford in his "Computers Are Bad" series, this time going through computer history from PLATO to Lotus Notes. PLATO is probably the most influential computer system almost nobody knows about (unlike, say, Mother of All Demos).
https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusn

LotusNotes

Quantum computers must be cooled to extremely low temperatures to minimize vibrations and prevent errors.
So far, chip-based systems have been limited to inefficient and slow cooling methods.
Now, a team of researchers at MIT and MIT Lincoln Laboratory has implemented a much faster and more energy-efficient method for cooling photonic chip-based quantum computers.
Their approach achieved cooling to about 10 times below the limit of standard laser cooling.
Key to this te…

Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers
Researchers demonstrated a new method of cooling trapped ions using chip-based systems, which could enable more stable and scalable quantum computers and quantum sensors.

"Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind"
#Trees #Environment
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Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind
Sydney communities may be missing out on crucial tree planting projects intended to combat urban heat, leaving western and eastern parts of Greater Sydney with less protection from extreme heat, a University of Sydney-led study has revealed. In a surprising finding, the researchers found that while Greater Sydney's total tree canopy increased by 4.2% from 1.514 billion square meters to 1.578 billion square meters between 2016 and 2022, this growth was not evenly distributed.

Equal1, which was spun out from University College Dublin, raised $60M to deploy its new quantum server for data centers, bringing its total funding to $85M (Ciara O'Brien/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/0

Equal1 raises $60m in funding to deploy quantum computing technology
UCD spinout has developed a quantum server for data centres

Combat clashes IMMEDIATELY on THREE fronts – UKRAINE is holding back the Russians!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/combat-clashes-immediately-on-three.html

from my link log —
Writing C with indent-based syntax similar to CoffeeScript or Python, via Guile.
https://sph.mn/computer/guides/c/c-indent.html
saved 2026-02-14

Massie says he's lost confidence in Pam Bondi after congressional hearing (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/15/massie-lost-confidence-pam-bondi-00782632
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p19#a260215p19

Habermas är död. Sorgligt. Men hans idéer om fungerande kommunikation i demokratier försvinner inte för det. https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2026/03/14…

Jürgen Habermas, philosophe allemand, intellectuel combatif et esprit encyclopédique, est mort à l’âge de 96 ans
Ce théoricien, qui n’hésitait pas à intervenir dans le débat public, fut un des premiers à harmoniser la tradition analytique anglo-saxonne, axée sur la logique et la langue, et la tradition continentale, centrée sur les idées.

SETI@home veröffentlicht Ergebnisse von 21 Jahren Distributed Computing
21 Jahre lang analysierten private Rechner Daten aus dem Weltall nach Spuren von Außerirdischen. Die verheißungsvollsten Signale werden jetzt überprüft.