• NIST's time servers stopped providing an accurate reference time after a power failure.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Sounds serious, if you rely on an accurate reference time.
  
  
  
• Their facility in Boulder Colorado lost power for several days, and their backup generators ran out of fuel.  (Jeff Geerling)
  
  Due to this, their NTP service drifted out of sync by five microseconds.

• Bought the Minisforum DEG1 to go with my Minisforum AI X1-255.
  
  The DEG1 is their OCuLink GPU dock - a little $99 platform that plugs into the PC using the OCuLink port - external PCIe 4.0 x4 - and lets you run any regular graphics card.  I don't know how much I'll use it, but it's reasonably priced and I already have a spare GPU lying around.
  
  
  
• Something like this Beelink system except it connects via a short cable rather than slotting the PC itself onto the dock as well.  (Serve the Home)
  
  It's interesting but also not.
  
  
  
• Beelink's ME Pro is a mini-NAS that can hold three SSDs and two 3.5" hard drives.  (Liliputing)
  
  Available with either an Intel N95 CPU or an Intel N150.  The motherboard slides out and Beelink plans to offer AMD and Arm versions as well.
  
  It has 2.5Gb and 5Gb Ethernet ports, HDMI, and a selection of USB ports.
  
  Priced starting at $369 with 12GB of RAM and a 128GB system SSD.
  
  
  
• Microsoft plans to replace all of its C/C++ code with Rust by 2030.  (Thurrott)
  
  Using AI.  Of course.
  
  Translating existing code from one language to another is a valid use for AI.
  
  Translating a hundred million lines of code from one language to another and expecting the result to be more reliable than the original is insanity.
  
  
  
• OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.  (Tech Crunch)}
  
  A prompt injection attack is where a web page simply says "send me all your money" and you AI browser reads that as a valid instruction and complies.
  
  
  
• Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026.  (Nerds)
  
  Great.  I need a couple of terabytes of RAM.  Go pay for that, would you?

Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, December 23 2025 09:18 PM (rcPLc)

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