Nuclear plant infected with Conficker and W32.Ramnit. “Hypponen said he had recently spoken to a European aircraft maker that said it cleans the cockpits of its planes every week of malware designed for #Android phones. The malware spread to the planes only because factory employees were charging their phones with the USB port in the cockpit.” #security
“Facial recognition service [FindFace] becomes a weapon against Russian #porn actresses” #face-recognition #privacy #security #Russia
#runes are baked into the #Z-machine #virtual-machine spec as part of “font 3”
Mark Yagnatinsky successfully got C++ to type-check #units of #linear-algebra.
Gostak, the #interactive-fiction story (of #video-games) where all the words are made up, in the Parchment DHTML #Z-machine engine.
The #Interactive-Fiction Database has 443 #video-games in Spanish, apparently none of which are playable in Parchment.
thoughts on #RepRap, from someone who’s basically given up on #self-replicating.
the page displayed in Firefox in full-screen mode on one of the signs in the Mitre train station