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from my link log —
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail.
https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
saved 2026-07-14

Enjoying MillMint today, and thinking about the way a world built by one person inevitably winds up uncannily unified in aesthetic to the point it undermines the project's credibility with regards to what it tries to express about ours
https://millmint.net

brb going to DC to put plastic shells of old computers in the reflecting pool
(they’re laughably trying to kill algae with hydrogen peroxide)

Slowly working toward the goal of getting rid of most of my computers by consolidating the various data dump SSDs presently distributed around the network inside my NAS

EigenQ, which makes cybersecurity systems to protect from future attacks by quantum computers, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $3B valuation (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/quantum-tech-firm-eigenq-go-pu…

"The Air Force is scrambling to get employees across the service back online after weeks of rolling cybersecurity quarantines locked numerous troops and civilians out of their computers, sometimes for days."
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense

Air Force network lockouts hit troops and civilians
Air Force employees are being locked out of their computers as cybersecurity quarantines tied to software updates disrupt work across bases and the Pentagon.

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@andrewg/116928127037360734
“Affordable entry-level computers may ‘disappear by 2028’ according to one forecast. And the memory shortage is expected to continue for years.”
So I guess we’ll just have to rent our computing from… *c…

EigenQ, which makes cybersecurity systems to protect from future attacks by quantum computers, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $3B valuation (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/quantum-tech-firm-eigenq-go-pu…

People: “The big social media networks could simply properly moderate their content and remove hate speech, disinformation and trolls.”
Politicians: “We heard you, we will require ID checks to use computers.”

@… https://jameshodges.substack.com/

Updates from James Hodges | Substack
Research on computers, digital culture, etc. Click to read Updates from James Hodges, by James A. Hodges, Ph.D., a Substack publication. Launched 5 years ago.

I still enjoy computers, but hardware truly is the worst.
I have a (relatively new) usb-to-sata drive dock that mysteriously has super slow speeds with just a single drive that I own, and is fine w/ the rest.
Last night I discovered the reason when I switched another drive from 512 to 4k logical sector size - read speeds suddenly went from around 250MB/s to around 50MB/s. Turns out the dock is buggy with 4k logical sector sizes, and that other drive is the only one that I have w/…

It’s not a full-fledged argument, but I was just thinking how a standard narrative is “early computers were so large they filled complete rooms, then came the personal computing revolution, and now we carry computers much more powerful in our pockets” when actually the way we use our mobile computers they are again input/output terminals of computers that fill entire rooms (or halls, really).

Applying the Turing test to the current “chatbot” generative AI does not show that AI is “intelligent”¹ but that humans are very bad in playing the imitation game as judges³.
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¹In the original paper “ I.—Computing machinery and intelligence”² Turing explicitly states that there is no useful definition for the meaning of the question ‘can machines think?’ and replaces it with: ‘can computers play the imitation game?’
²

from my link log —
Computers can be understood.
https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/
saved 2020-04-13 https://…

"...we maximise utility for all by travelling at the speed of a bicycle. And because it is the speed and not the effort of your legs that is crucial, the e-bike increases access to transport (for those who cannot pedal unassisted) without increasing the 'time-lack' of others. It is a new application of energy capable of furthering social progress."

@… on how we lost more advanced #computers:
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/9

Nobody needs a "cyberdeck." Way too many people are getting one-shotted by this stupid meme. If the TRS-80 Model 100 had been a usable, ergonomic form factor, all computers would look like that now. But they don't. Evolution selected against it. Stop wasting your money on garbage.
Add to it, all the modern cyberdeck systems use some embedded SoC with dogshit CPU/RAM and no sleep/suspend capabilities. Such mobile, very performance, wow.
If you want a "cyberdeck…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/116928387853350891
Can we like smash all the computers already?
Just like in the dune books..
Im tired

Found a hidden gem from the End of 10 campaign today! And since Microsoft was forced to extend Windows 10 support for a year in the EU, it's still relevant 😌
Link where I got the audio from: https://invent.kde.org/websites/endof10-org/-/blob/…

POL-OL: Nachtrag zum Einbruch im Prinzessinweg: Fund des Tablets - Täterschaft weiterhin unbekannt Oldenburg (ots) - Vergangenen Freitag berichteten wir über den Diebstahl eines Tablets und eines Computers aus einer Wohnung im Prinzessinweg in Oldenburg, https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/6

A new front has opened up in the battle for dominance in AI chips, as Nvidia said its latest development could replace the mouse and keyboard in how people use computers.
The $5tn (£3.7tn) US semiconductor company has launched a “superchip” that puts AI capabilities into laptops and desktop computers, a move that will pit it against Intel, Apple, Qualcomm and AMD.
The RTX Spark chip will be launched this year, and will be used by computer makers including Dell, Lenovo, Asus and H…

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
This network has 13356 nodes and 120238 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Weighted

Radical thought, but maybe we build computers around society, and not society around computers.

This is looks really great https://boxd.sh

This ~40% off from Amazon on this Snapdragon (64bit arm) laptop might interest some of you; it's a similar model to the one I bought with a smashed screen - if you want to play with Linux on it, not for a newbie, but it's not too bad now (there's an Ubuntu image for them and I've got Debian/sid running on mine with a few hacks and a kernel built from the ubuntu tree). And this one includes a screen!

A quick update on the MSI Cubi AI : I returned the little box to the store the next day. Reason: an obvious motherboard defect.
Out of ten attempts to turn on the mini-PC, nine were unsuccessful. And even when it did finally turn on, most of the ports didn’t work; it wasn’t until I unplugged and replugged them several times that an image appeared on the monitor. The monitor is brand new, too, and works perfectly with my other computers, so that’s not the problem.
Bottom line: gre…

We took a walk around campus after lunch, and are now looking at some old computers in the library's basement. 🥳✨💾

Ask why, and know the answers are unsatisfying and contingent. It made sense at the time. Because we didn't understand yet. Because changing it would certainly break something else and we didn't know what yet and didn't have time to understand it. Yet.
Computers can be understood. Everything that is going on can be peeked at, prodded at, taken apart to know what is going on. Inside every complex system are simpler parts. The complexity comes from the combination of them, not mystery.
I cannot emphasize that enough. Just because you don't know, or nobody you know knows why something is how it is does not mean it is unknowable.

Zimmerman’s Law of Complaints:
Nobody notices when things go right. (M. Zimmerman)
#Printing #Computers #Research #Science

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116834698065101659
Quantum mechanics: there’s ALWAYS a “but.”
I don’t expect to live to see quantum computers that are sufficiently faster than traditional computers to justify their cost for anyone but t…

Meta is installing a tool it calls Model Capability Initiative (MCI) on US-based employees' computers that runs in work-related apps and websites, recording mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and occasional screenshots.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/916681/meta-ai…

How a Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI protein discovery, showing a near-term commercial application for the quantum tech (Isabella Ward/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-using-ai-and-quantum-c…

Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides
Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases.

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Remember back when building computers we burned a cd/dvd from a working machine and kept giant binders of install media? And then things changed and we could make a bootable USB device from whatever promotional 4GB stick people were handing out at tradeshows, but often it couldn't boot?
The working machines are now laptops which no longer have optical drives at all. Or USB A.
I found an old external dvd burner and have it running through a Thunderbolt3 hub that still has USB A ports.

The thing I love about computers is that I can tell you basically anything about how a computer works, not because I know everything but because I know how to figure it out. I can walk you, over the course of an hour, two, there, maybe more, though every step of typing something into a web form, from the electrical signals that get turned into digital via an ADC, to the USB controller memory, to the kernel driver, to user space, through the application stack, back down to the kernel, to the network driver, through routers, up the server stack, TCP/IP, key exchanges, etc.
I don't mean I have the time to dig into these things. I used to, and it was fun. I've given more than my fair share of interviews talking though variations of this. What I'm talking about isn't pure knowledge, but that, given relatively simple theory, and the right tools, every action of a computer can be understood down to the limits of physics.
The thing I hate about #LLMs is that take something comprehensible and make it something almost completely opaque. Even with a solid understanding of the theory, literally no one understands what's happening. That is shit. It makes playing with technology not fun anymore. The way in which companies are making things even more opaque by running stuff in the cloud is everything I hated about closed source on steroids.

Has Technology Ever Reduced Labor?
Has technology ever reduced labor? The question sounds rhetorical. We carry small computers that answer any factual query in seconds, our laundry tumbles itself clean while we sleep, our cars drive themselves on highways our great-grandparents traveled by mule. Of course technology has reduced labor. The question barely needs asking.

Has Technology Ever Reduced Labor? | David Boles, Blogs
Has technology ever reduced labor? The question sounds rhetorical. We carry small computers that answer any factual query in seconds, our laundry tumbles itself clean while we sleep, our cars drive…

I think the government has identified that 2026 is a really bad year for replacing a large number of personal computers. Sorry, everyone.
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-04-13/hl16286

Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

What a lede
"Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have found a way to use artificial intelligence to create a dangerous computer 'worm' capable of targeting any known flaw in the world’s computers and quickly spreading mayhem throughout the internet."

Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.
Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers.

New policy on my computers: Run absolutely nothing from Google. It will eat your CPU.

Today's news is Google Chrome has been installing a 4 GB AI model on some people's computers without consent.
Fortunately, it wasn't installed on my daily driver, probably because I often don't have 4 GB free on this tiny drive. Insert Meme Head Tapping Guy
To prevent installation, go to chrome://flags and search for "optimization guide on device", change to Disabled.
1/x

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116521203382846336
Yup. I found the 4Gb file on my computers. WTF, Google!?

RE: https://social.erambert.me/@macthemes/116732304036409990
the spring chickens amongst you (like if you’re below 40) might not know this but computers used to be fun

Did you know there was a system called Red Box for the BBC Micro that enabled you to turn home appliances off and on using your computer? So, basically, an early version of HomeKit, etc.
In 1986.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/36892/BBC-Micro-Red-Box/…

One aspect of the current Farage hoohah that largely seems to have been missed: there's a specific criminal offence of leaking information about Suspicious Activity Reports, because the subject might discover they're under investigation and flee, or throw all their computers into a smelter, or whatever - at any rate, that what I was told in various tedious annual training sessions.
So the Guardian's sources have committed a rather serious criminal offence *whoever they are*…

Question for @… or #Vivaldi users: how do you synchronise your workspaces between computers (i.e. create a workspace on one comp, then being able to load it on another comp)?
It should be obvious but I can't seem to …

After years of false dawns, Big Tech, startups, and governments are betting on commercially useful quantum computers by 2030, as skeptics worry about hype (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/8882c5a8-…

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
This network has 13356 nodes and 120238 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Weighted

&amp； #i18nFails
i18nfails.1a23.studio/posts/amp

&； | i18n fails
Computers are picky about punctuations, and they should.

Air traffic control run by Compaq computers is safe but inefficient, FAA head says (Kris Van Cleave/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faa-bryan-bedford-air-traffic-control-compaq-safe-inefficient-faa-head-says/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p35#a260529p35

I hate computers

I publish many of my photos from different vintage computing events I visit on my Flickr account with a CC0 license. Every once in a while I by accident stumble over one of my photos while reading some wikipedia article on old computers. And I think, this is wonderful and a nice demonstration on how a free and open Internet should work. #justthinkin

from my link log —
Reverse engineering Prodigy.
https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2921/reverse-engineering-prodigy-part-1
saved 2021-01-16

I was today years old when I realised that the purification of silicon — needed for computer chips — is an incredibly carbon intensive process, and that in a post-carbon economy, we may not be able to do it at all.
So — no more computers, at least not with the technology we use now; and, probably, nowhere near as cheap or as ubiquitous.
#ClimateEmergency
In Our Time: Si…

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Silicon
The role of silicon from chips to glass to the balance of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere

Quantum repeater segment with free-space coupled co-trapped ions using telecom photon interference
Max Bergerhoff, Pascal Baumgart, Christian Haen, Jonas Meiers, Tobias Bauer, Jonas Haferkamp, Christoph Becher, J\"urgen Eschner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12313 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12313 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12313
arXiv:2606.12313v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A quantum repeater segment is a basic building block of a quantum repeater, generating buffered entanglement of quantum memories to connect quantum repeater cells. It also enables the connection between quantum computers. In the implementation we present here, photons emitted from two co-trapped free-space coupled $^{40}$Ca$^ $ ions are converted to the telecom-C band and interfered after transmission over 440$\,$m of optical fiber (220$\,$m per arm), where a photonic Bell measurement is performed to create entanglement between the memories. With this scheme we generate an entangled $\left|\Psi^ \right\rangle$ Bell state with $\ge 68(8)\,$% fidelity, highlighting trapped $^{40}$Ca$^ $ ions as a promising quantum repeater hardware platform.
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Back in the days, computers were classified into "micro", "mini" (fridge size), "mainframe" and "supercomputer".
Then other classifications came along and market segments developed, but hardware platforms generally became fragmented.
IMHO, it makes sense to recap this development and reclassify in terms of hardware platforms being designed as systems in order to derive new specifications for system software stacks. Many vendors have a lot o…

Brain computer interfaces boot up multipronged legal issues https://www.afslaw.com/perspectives/news/brain-computer-interfaces-boot-multipronged-legal-issues "BCIs may be implantable or noninvasive", "Can neural data ever …

Brain Computer Interfaces Boot Up Multipronged Legal Issues | ArentFox Schiff
Forget science fiction — the race to connect computers directly to the human brain is already underway, and it is accelerating. In recent months, neurotechnology companies have expanded human clinical trials and attracted substantial investment.

A bit of AI (actual intelligence) for the weather forecasters: unless your model forecasts 3 days of thunderstorms in a row for Munich…. There will be no thunderstorms! I can’t believe this token of lived experience hasn’t made it to the weather computers yet. Munich is a pillar of heat that will slice through your approaching cold front like a fruit ninja!

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Tensor-Network-Based Distributed Quantum Dynamics on Independent Quantum Computers
Dwivedi, Revelle, Lobser, McFarland, Tortorici, Yale, Clark, Richerme, Iyengar

Microsoft has really screwed up. When I see users who don't have a clue about computers asking about Linux because they're sick and tired of Windows, things are looking pretty bad for the folks in Redmond.
Even though this makes me smile, I can't help but wonder, how could they mess up so badly?
#Windows

If the 2020s taught me anything it’s that the only thing institutions are eager to adopt faster than lying computers is playing ball with fascism.

@… TIL
TC Computers https://web.archive.org/web/19961115071641/http://www.tccomputers.com/
became Insight Components

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
--Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist, lived 1907–1990
Quoted in Observer, London 1979
#Computers are #Illiterate

Japan's Self-Defense Forces used USB drives containing a China-linked virus on computers with access to classified information for nearly a year, then elected not to disclose the matter even though similar memory sticks were widely available online.
https://

Japan defense forces used USB drives with China-linked virus: Nikkei investigation
Counterfeit memory sticks infected computers that had access to classified information

French quantum computing startup Quobly, which is developing silicon-based quantum computers, raised a €115M Series A led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ, and STMicro (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/06/03/quobly-raises-eur115m-seri…

Quobly raises €115M Series A to commercialise silicon quantum computing
Quobly, a French quantum computing company developing silicon-based quantum computers, has raised €115 million in a Series A financing round to accelerate the industrialisation of its technology and support the launch of its first commercial product. The round was led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ and STMicroelectronics, with participation from the European Innovation Council (EIC), Blast, Air Liquide Venture Capital (ALIAD) and existing investor Innovacom. Existing shareholders also include the…

I think that after like 38 years, I'm losing interest in computers-as-they-now-are, and I'm terrified about not having something lined up that comes after them.

After the apocalypse there are still computers but only two OSes remain.
Which one do your pick for your own machine?

It’s interesting how much more powerful personal computers are now than in the 2000s, e.g. if FireWire was still a thing it would have to be FireWire 120000 to compete with Thunderbolt 5 speeds
Yet today’s application software is mostly very, very bad

Sources: Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, citing security concerns (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-bans-employees-using-claude

Alibaba Bans Employees From Using Claude
Alibaba Group has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code, and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, according to two employees with knowledge of the matter. Alibaba told some employees Friday that the ban is due to security concerns about Anthropic, after a recent controversy over Claude Code’s hidden code that was capable of tracking whether the user

CAD – Computer Aided Design – is nearly as old as computers itself. Read about the entire CAD history here: #techhistory

More than half of the world’s governments have access to commercial spyware that can break into computers and phones to steal sensitive information, according to U.K. intelligence.
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre plans to reveal its findings Wednesday, according to Politico.
The report suggests that the barrier to access this type of surveillance technology has fallen,
potentially making it easier for foreign governments and hackers to target U.K. citizens, compani…

UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people's phones | TechCrunch
The U.K.'s cybersecurity chief warned that U.K. businesses and critical infrastructure are underestimating the threat from spyware attacks and other cyberthreats, with more governments having access to the powerful surveillance technology than ever.

Partitioned Iterative Quantum Scheduling of Satellites for Urgent Disaster Response: Case study of Wildfire
Lucas T. Braydwood, Taejin Park, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Zoe Gonzalez Izquierdo, Andrew Michaelis, Eleanor Rieffel, Shon Grabbe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12310 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12310 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12310
arXiv:2606.12310v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The standard in Earth-observation tasks today is having near real-time access to surface images in response to changing conditions. For instance, as urban environments interface more with wildlands and wildfires become less predictable, their tracking with satellite resources becomes essential. This requires the coordination of increasingly large constellations of satellites, giving rise to challenging computational problems. With wildfire detection and tracking as a backdrop, we investigate the power of special purpose and novel computing paradigms to tackle the ensuing satellite scheduling problems, making a compelling case for quantum algorithms. We bring quantum scheduling algorithms closer to implementation by examining both the emerging iterative quantum algorithm framework, which comes with analytic guarantees compared to some classical algorithms, and distributed quantum computing methods whose relevance is on the rise as utility-scale problems begin to get solved with quantum computers. Drawing strength from several computing fronts, we develop a distributed/parallelization scheme in conjunction with the quantum algorithm design and apply these techniques to real-world datasets for wildfire detection. While our quantum subprocesses are currently too small to see significant quantum advantage, our results validate the utility of these techniques, and continue forging the path toward distributed quantum computing.
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A week ago, I treated myself to a new monitor: the BenQ MA270S, a 27-inch model with 5K resolution, 2x Thunderbolt 4 ports, and much more. The picture quality is incredibly sharp—the best I’ve ever seen! It was actually meant to connect to my MacBook Pro, but of course, it works just as perfectly with all my Linux and Windows computers. Once you’ve experienced 5K resolution, you’ll never want to go back. And this monitor is significantly cheaper than an Apple Studio Display, which ONLY works…

UK-based Quantum Motion, which builds quantum computers on silicon chips, raised a $160M Series C; EU-backed growth fund Kembara made its first investment (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

@…
Rodney 😄
"I'm experienced with computers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_SC8c81pFk

I expect to see “free computers” that come with multi-year mandatory AI subscriptions to appear sometime this year.
Remember the $0 computers during the dot com bubble?

The security industry is somewhat unique. It's probably the only industry created by the worker as a threat. If you talk to hackers who were in the scene before Operation Sundevil, you'll realize that it's always been a Bullshit Job.
Folks in L0ft and cDc were hacking companies and basically blackmailing them into paying for their services. Operation Sundevil "straightened up" the industry. Some people went to prison, some people build security services companies. Pretty much anyone who actually believed in the manifesto was locked up or edged out.
Using the Graeber framework here, hackers are partially duct tapers and partially goons. The critical thing here is that the industry was basically created to give money to people who would otherwise destroy the system.
Neuroatypical folks have always been forced to the margins of society, but computers gave us a super power. Now we were extremely dangerous. Tech, especially hackers, have always been paid a lot to minimize the risk of developing a class consciousness.
Graeber talked about this. Kings and nobles would often find some job or title that they could bestow on potential enemies in order to keep them close, to defang them. What better role than sheriff, a type of goon, for a rebel?
We turned it in to a whole thing. Not only did hackers make their own industry and force everyone else to accept it, we even created a whole parallel box ticker industry of "compliance" as a side effect.
The Hacker's Manifesto was decontectualized and made a fun artifact of the past. We were sold a story of "good hackers" who "protected grandma from the bad hackers." But the whole industry always existed to keep us on a leash. The funny thing is that it was a leash that we made ourselves.
But now we're seeing massive layoffs in tech, even in security. Now that we're this far in, everyone has forgotten the history. Leadership doesn't understand what security people do, so they think that LLMs can replace us. But the people in the industry now, the ones who came to it as a career, don't understand the history.
There was always a split for these weird outsiders, these people who couldn't fit in to the system but now had power over it. Some wanted in and they were willing to use extortion to get in, and others wanted to destroy the system to set everyone free.
Operation Sundevil, and the industry that evolved out of it, existed to neutralize those revolutionary elements by offering extortionists a safe entry. Extortionists trusted the capitalists to not stab them in the back the same way capitalists have stabbed everyone in the back through all of history. Now my LinkedIn feed is full of Meta layoffs, and I wonder if that class consciousness is starting to click for anyone yet.

Computers never actually got cheaper; smaller computers simply became more useful over time. You can still spend $15k or $1M on a computer if you want to!

A supercomputer in China now outranks its US counterparts as the world’s most powerful.
It is the first time since 2017 that a Chinese computer has topped a list sometimes viewed as a measure of a nation’s technological prowess.
The LineShine computer in Shenzhen displaced top-ranked US computer El Capitan in the Top500 rankings released on Tuesday.
It was LineShine’s debut on the list.
China’s LineShine differs from other high-performance computers in that it runs en…

#Tuxedo switches for #TuxedoOS from #Ubuntu to #Debian. Similar reasons why I swtiched from

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
This network has 13356 nodes and 120238 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Weighted

Crosslisted article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
[1/2]:
- Collective Emission in LH2 Assembly Beyond the Point-Dipole Approximation
Javed Akhtar, Himangshu Prabal Goswami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11227 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsbioph_bot/116730397622511231
- Physically Constrained Ensemble Gaussian Process Modelling for Expensive Quantum Systems with Het...
Arpan Biswas, Surtirtha Paul, Joseph Agada, Matthias Thamm, Adrian Del Maestro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11240 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicscompph_bot/116730343129842119
- Exact Dynamics of Topological Order Across a CDW--SPT Transition
Pradip Kattel, Yicheng Tang, Natan Andrei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11303 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstrel_bot/116730377342191756
- Implementing Hamiltonian Renormalization Group Flow on Quantum Computers with VAPOR
Federica Fragomeno, Jorden Roberts, Saeed Rastgoo, Klaus Liegener
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11306 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_heplat_bot/116730339197109709
- Dissociative recombination and ion-pair formation in $\mathrm{HeH^ }$ isotopologues: A time-depen...
Sifiso Musa Nkambule, Malibongwe Tsabedze, Oscar N. Mabuza, Mbuso K. Matfunjwa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11352 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatmclus_bot/116730375179222347
- Compressed minimum-purity time evolution for late-time quantum dynamics
Moksh Bhateja, Jonas B. Rigo, Markus Schmitt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstatmech_bot/116730375009370911
- Invariants of Sequential Circuits and Generalized Non-Abelian Statistics
Shintaro Sato, Yoshimasa Hidaka, Ryohei Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11527 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstrel_bot/116730377733126638
- Polarization-Resolved Photon Statistics of Cavity Quantum Materials
Benjamin Kass, Spenser Talkington, Martin Claassen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11550 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot/116730389727354747
- Consistent Evaluation of Operators Involving the Position Operator in the Bloch Representation: A...
Daehyeon An, Junmo Jeon, Se Kwon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11679 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot/116730409193332256
- Mathematical Basis for Analyzing Superconducting Phase Transitions Using Catastrophe Theory
Jiu Hui Wu, Hua Tian, Kejiang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11810 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatsuprcon_bot/116730381273852070
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Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/oxford-quantum-circuits-series-c/

Oxford Quantum Circuits raises blockbuster $350m Series C
UK company has deployed quantum systems to partner data centres across Europe, the US and Asia

from my link log —
32 MiB working set on a 64 GiB machine.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2023/10/01/32-mib-working-sets-on-a-64-gib-machine/
saved 2023-10-02

32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. Ho…

Email: the EU Parliament plans to replace Google with the French search engine Qwant as the default search tool on its computers, seeking digital sovereignty (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-…

European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns
The switch lands as EU officials prepare a broader push to wean off US tech.

Next bad movie, nice computers!

Replaced article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
[1/5]:
- Tight Bounds for Quantum Phase Estimation and Related Problems
Nikhil S. Mande, Ronald de Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04908 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/110337460439591382
- Quantum thermodynamics of the Caldeira-Leggett model with non-equilibrium Gaussian reservoirs
Vasco Cavina, Massimiliano Esposito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00215 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/112370293649586776
- A quantum implementation of high-order power method for estimating geometric entanglement of pure...
Andrii Semenov, Niall Murphy, Simone Patscheider, Alessandra Bernardi, Elena Blokhina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19134 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/112528797708787049
- Unifying framework for quantum simulation algorithms for time-dependent Hamiltonian dynamics
Yu Cao, Shi Jin, Nana Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03180 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/113435338816776896
- Mixed-State Topological Order under Coherent Noise
Seunghun Lee, Eun-Gook Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03441 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/113440883864687961
- Quest for quantum advantage: Monte Carlo wave-function simulations of the Coherent Ising Machine
Manushan Thenabadu, Run Yan Teh, Jia Wang, Simon Kiesewetter, Margaret D Reid, Peter D Drummond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02681 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/113786139350946567
- Honest-binding quantum bit commitment from separable operations
Ziad Chaoui, Anna Pappa, Matteo Rosati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07351 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/113825499573295523
- Expressivity of Quantum Reservoir Computers
Sch\"utte, G\"otting, M\"untinga, List, Brunner, Gies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15528 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/113904787967762788
- Additivity and chain rules for quantum entropies via multi-index Schatten norms
Omar Fawzi, Jan Kochanowski, Cambyse Rouz\'e, Thomas Van Himbeeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01611 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/113944408733032864
- On the Addressability Problem on CSS Codes
J\'er\^ome Guyot, Samuel Jaques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13889 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114035128180919513
- Robust Mixed-State Cluster States and Spurious Topological Entanglement Negativity
Seunghun Lee, Eun-Gook Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16165 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114391788348136547
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University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technol

Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.
Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers.

On the upside the AI industry is working on making sure single computers cost at least $8,000 again.

I need another 13 computers

I think the times when we had one computer that cost $8,000 (in today’s money) may have been better than today when we have 100 computers at home that cost a total of $8,000.

Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/30/nvidia-microsoft-pcs-ai-surface-dell

Scoop: First Windows PCs powered by Nvidia chips to debut next week
The chips will appear in Microsoft Surface computers and PCs from other manufacturers.

I love spending my entire evening fixing computer shit rather than sitting down to fix the one particular computer shit I intended to fix because all the other computers shit everywhere and I had to fix all their shit before I could fix the one particular shit I wanted to fix

The US DOD announces a $9.7B five-year deal with Dell to provide Microsoft 365, advanced cloud subscriptions, and on-premises licensing to the US military (Garrett Downs/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/dell-dod-pentagon-software-deal-di…

Dell wins a $9.7 billion Pentagon software deal after cozying up to Trump
The purchase comes after Dell spent considerable time courting the White House and after President Trump urged purchases of the company's computers.

Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/99c1c1e7-1a1c-479c-9fc8-e21aea5c3f0e

President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-

Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…