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sudo apt-get remove zika A real, shipping 15.36TB SSD . No official word on price yet but Ars estimates about $8,000 . For comparison, there is no 15TB spinning disk and two 8TB archival disks would run you $444 and be quite a lot slower, larger and power-hungrier. Or, here's a 1.92TB SSD for about 4x the price of a spinning disk . Disk is dead baby, long live flash.
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Raft with Smart Contracts . Bless you.
Elon Musk's GIGAFACTORY . No, the other gigafactory. Also by Elon Musk.
I can't improve on this headline: The IRS is using a system that was hacked to protect victims of a hack—and it was just hacked . Sigh.
What to do if a Soyuz capsule lands near you (pdf) .
You want to transmit radio but you don't have an SDR device? Use the system bus . Other functionality for the capabilities implied here is left as an exercise to the (sufficiently paranoid) reader.
Random Blockchain-based news roundup:
I'm hesitant to relay this since a) it's popular science and ii) I don't understand quantum enough to accurately judge it but: China to launch a quantum communications satellite .
More tempest attacks, this time against phones .
In companies-vs-countries, it seems Hedge Funds might have the edge in sheer patience . Paywalled but you're all clever folks who, I'm sure, can find the full text.
I can't decide what my favorite part of this video is. I think it's the sports . Note that if you let youtube autoplay the next few songs are likely to be extremely nsfw audio-wise.
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