Monday, December 01
Daily News Stuff 1 December 2025
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- Would you like to buy a clue... For $1 million? (AP)
There's a sculpture called Kryptos at the CIA offices in McLean, Virginia, which contains four panels of encrypted text. Three have been decrypted by puzzle-solvers, but the fourth has defied all attempts since the installation was created in 1990.
The artist, now aged 80, has auctioned off his notes and clues to the contents of that fourth panel... For close to $1 million.
Tech News
- LLVM-MOS is a fork of the LLVM compiler suite for the 6502. (LLVM-MOS)
It supports everything from the Ohio Scientific Challenger 1, which shipped in 1976, to the Commander X16, which shipped as a developer edition last year and is available for purchase right now.
- Google Antigravity just wiped my D drive. (Reddit)
Not my D drive. It's AI shit and I don't give AI shit access to anything I don't want destroyed.
- Looking at a water-cooled RISC-V AI workstation. (The Register)
It costs $12,000, but it has four AI accelerator cards each with four 800Gb Ethernet ports. So if nothing else it's an astonishingly fast router.
- The Lotus Diplomat is a double-wide Blackberry. (Notebook Check)
It has a 5" 2560x1920 screen - and a 1" secondary screen - and a QWERTY keyboard with a number row at the top and a function/punctuation row at the bottom. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite and equipped with 24GB of RAM and 1.5TB of storage.
Price is not mentioned, and you might be best off not asking.
- AI is transforming spacecraft propulsion - and may lead to nuclear-powered rockets. (Fast Company) (archive site)
No it isn't, and no it won't.
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Disclaimer: I'm the wonderer. Rebel without a clue.
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Well, I don't know enough about propulsion to fully exclude certain methods of development. In electromagnetics, there are a few people who think that they have some valid neural net approaches for certain types of electromagnetics problem. I can sorta buy that stuff for electromagnetics. Fluids? LOL. I dunno, I am not optimistic but cannot prove anything. Basically, the AI-will-solve-machine-design depends on whether or not engineering is a bunch of individual cases that have to be tested individually or else the next iteration steps may not land on understood/working spaces.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, December 02 2025 02:11 AM (rcPLc)
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> I deliberatly got Al to wipe my D: drive and then used Al to rewrite the event to get a bunch of comments on reddit. Or I am an actual cretin, whichever makes more sense.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, December 02 2025 06:45 AM (e0fX0)
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Also, the idea of a compiler that targets an architecture that couldn't actually run the compiler is amusing.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, December 02 2025 07:24 AM (e0fX0)
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Common in embedded computing, but yeah, it's funny to see a modern toolchain like LLVM being targeted for a 50 year old CPU.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, December 02 2025 11:33 AM (PiXy!)
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