Comment Bithumb (Score 0) 105

by bobdevine on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:58PM (#65974896) Attached to: Bitcoin Dropped Nearly 30% This Week. But Why?

My guess of how the dominoes fell as worldwide BTC dropped from $80K -> $65K--

1) Bithumb, a South Korean company, screwed up by sending BTC instead of won to its accounts
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeed.bithumb.com%2Fnotic...
2) its users quickly sold 1,788 BTCs, which pushed the Korean bitcoin index down below $60K
3) IBIT then plummeted from the national selling
4) Blackrock had hedged IBIT
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitrss.com%2Fbitcoin-cra...
5) worldwide BTC dropped from Blackrock's loss

Submission + - new high-temp superconducting material (nature.com) 1

Submitted by bobdevine on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:46PM

bobdevine writes: A Chinese group found superconductivity up to 96 K under high pressure in bilayer nickelate single crystals. The difference is that they synthesized the material at ambient pressure.

Submission + - V4 Unix (from 1973) release tape found (discuss.systems)

Submitted by bobdevine on Saturday November 08, 2025 @11:56PM

bobdevine writes: Univ. of Utah found and old 9-track tape that might be the only full copy of V4 Unix from 1973.

It will be analyzed at the Computer History Museum.

Submission + - Worker falls into nuclear reactor pool (nrc.gov)

Submitted by bobdevine on Sunday October 26, 2025 @02:02AM

bobdevine writes: A worker fell into a reactor pool at the Palisades plant in Michigan. Scary quote: "They ingested some amount of cavity water."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrc.gov%2Freading-rm...

Comment SQL drops (Score 1) 51

by bobdevine on Sunday September 28, 2025 @03:45PM (#65688610) Attached to: Will AI Mean Bring an End to Top Programming Language Rankings?

Prediction -- programming with SQL will be replaced by natural language prompts. And SQL's rank as a language will drop.

Submission + - Linux reaches 5% on desktop (ostechnix.com) 1

Submitted by bobdevine on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:53PM

bobdevine writes: Linux desktops reach 5% of market share in the USA.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fostechnix.com%2Flinux-re...

Comment use a dog to factor... (Score 5, Informative) 35

by bobdevine on Sunday July 13, 2025 @06:47PM (#65518016) Attached to: Why It's Time To Invest In Quantum Cybersecurity Now

Don't worry -- a dog can match current quantum factoring:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feprint.iacr.org%2F2025%2F1...

Submission + - "bitcoin baby" is soon to be a teenager (cnn.com)

Submitted by bobdevine on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:50PM

bobdevine writes: 12 years ago a baby was born after somebody used bitcoin to pay for a frozen egg IVF.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2013%2F06%2F...

"I, for one, welcome ..."

Comment Verizon + Frontier (Score 1) 29

by bobdevine on Friday May 16, 2025 @03:55PM (#65381667) Attached to: Charter To Buy Cox For $21.9 Billion Amid Escalating War With Wireless

In another step towards sector consolidation, the merger of Verizon and Frontier was approved today.

Comment we're all gonna die... (Score 1) 54

by bobdevine on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @01:30AM (#65288841) Attached to: Scientists Debate Actual Weight of the Internet

An important point is that the weight of the internet follows the daily usage pattern -- internet activity is much higher on the daylight hemisphere as many more people are awake so their internet traffic increases the weight.

This means: the ever-heavier daylight burdens will cause an unbalanced wobble in the planet as it rotates. Because the weight of the internet increases year by year, the wobble will worsen and the Earth will eventually escape its orbit. We're all gonna die...

Comment net-zero (Score 1) 70

by bobdevine on Saturday March 22, 2025 @12:59PM (#65252249) Attached to: How an Electrical Fire Shut Down Heathrow and Upended Global Air Travel

A MP tells why the backup failed:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FGBNEWS%2Fstatus%2F19...

Comment Quantum = random modeling (Score 2) 19

by bobdevine on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @04:05PM (#65228697) Attached to: D-Wave Claims 'Quantum Supremacy,' Beating Traditional Computers

My prediction -- conventional computers will continue to be used for problems with precise answers, but quantum computers will be used for probabilistic answers.

For example, quantum computers might help in weather forecasts.

Comment thanks for the memories... (Score 1) 71

by bobdevine on Thursday August 29, 2024 @02:28AM (#64745572) Attached to: Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue That Makes Memories Stick For a Lifetime

A much better memory chemical is ... um what was I saying?

Submission + - Linux market share hits record high (ostechnix.com)

Submitted by bobdevine on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @04:06PM

bobdevine writes: Linux continues to (slowly) grow.

Comment "negative day" attack on Microsoft CoPilot+ Recall (Score -1, Offtopic) 10

by bobdevine on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @10:59PM (#64526441) Attached to: Mike Karels, of 4.4 BSD Fame, Has Died

If a "zero-day" attack is when an attack comes on the same day a vulnerability is found, what is it called when an attack emerges before a product has even shipped?
Somebody has posted code to dump out the contents of a CoPilot+ Recall database:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fxaitax%2FTota...