The Weekly Weird - 2018-10-05
- I loathe linking twitter threads, they're just reader-hostile. But this one is worth it for the top-quality science.
- I guess we gotta talk about the NSA bankrupting Supermicro via Bloomberg (Is that not what it's about?) Vaguely useless HN comments and an in-depth analysis of plausible (but unproven) attack vectors. Also, anyone want to translate this product page?
- The only problem with state-sponsored hardware espionage is the lack of a catchy name. Not like iDRACula, which is killer.
- "Building an organic computing device with multiple interconnected brains" (2015) leads to a slightly-less-invasive one-bit replication in humans.