I don't have much to say about carbon nanotube processors but I wonder if being able to use a free ISA like RISC-V and run actual programs makes these kind of one-offs more appealing?
Wouldn't it be nice if companies would just let you install a wifi sniffer inside their office buildings? Warshipping is the catchy new name for a not-new attack vector.
Most of civilization (such as it is) relies on the asymmetric difficulty of analysis. As the cost to gather data goes to zero, so we discover that there is nowhere to hide and nothing is safe.
You may not be aware that you can write whatever you want as the "city" on a letter without affecting deliverability. This is extremely obvious if you live in Queens.
Back in the mists of time, when the Internet was dewy-eyed with optimism, 640k really was enough for everyone, we still thought that connecting people was good, and IP addresses flowed like water, a smidge of IP address space was set aside for amateur radio use. 44/8 was...not consistently made use of and its governance was always a bit fuzzy. Recently, folks noticed that some of those 16 million addresses had been split out. It turns out that Amazon made a deal. This has not been received with unmitigated positivity by the community.
The rare actually-interesting programming language pitch: Deploy code in 50ms. My favorite is "Every state of incomplete code in Dark has a valid execution semantics".
OpenZFS had a big release: 0.8.0. Long-awaited features aplenty and, perhaps more importantly, alignment on doing future development on ZoL first instead of illumos (RIP Solaris).
Semi-related: ["[T]the benefits of netting and risk margining [via the DTCC] enabled $326 billion in transactions to be financed with $8 billion in capital, meaning each dollar of capital from market participants secured $40 worth of gross transactions."](https://www.greenwich.com/steampunk-settlement-report-download) (via)
Since I'm writing this from KubeCon in Barcelona, I thought it would be apropriate to start off with a relevant link. I couldn't find one because computers are boring now so here's one about the other kind of container and associated hundred-ton robots.
We talked about encoding neural nets into pneumatics, now how about encoding neural nets in free-space optical networks? Or (Ok, they don't actually encode a neural net in this one but math is math, right?) in styrofoam and microwaves.
Good, yes please build a neural net to wirehead monkeys, I'm sure that won't come back to bite us in the ass in any way.
A computer vision article completely unrelated to the subsequent link: Adversarial Patches.
Ceph lets you embed arbitrary C++ into the OSD processes to push computation down to where the data is. Computation like, for example, Postgres query processing.
Speaking of C++, you know what it desperately needed? A JIT compiler.