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Armor is an interesting technology from Manchester University for stopping rowhammer attacks on DRAM [1]. Unfortunately “armor” is a term used for DRAM that looks fancy for ricers so finding out whether it’s used in production is difficult.

The Reckless Limitless Scope of Web Browsers is an insightful analysis of the size of web specs and why it’s impossible to implement them properly [2].

Framework is a company that makes laptop kits you can assemble and upgrade, interesting concept [3]. I’ll keep buying second hand laptops for less than $400 but if I wanted to spend $1000 then I’d consider one of these.

FS has an insightful article about why unstructured job interviews (IE the vast majority of job interviews) give a bad result [4].

How a child killer inspired Ayn Rand and indirectly conservatives all around the world [5]. Ayn Rand’s love of a notoriously sadistic child killer is well known, but this article has a better discussion of it than most.

60 Minutes had an interesting article on “Foreign Accent Syndrome” where people suddenly sound like they are from another country [6]. 18 minute video but worth watching. Most Autistic people have experience of people claiming that they must be from another country because of the way they speak. Having differences in brain function lead to differences in perceived accent is nothing new.

The IEEE has an interesting article about the creation of the i860, the first million-transistor chip [7].

The Game of Trust is an interactive web site demonstrating the game theory behind trusting other people [8].

Here’s a choose your own adventure game in Twitter (Nitter is a non-tracking proxy for Twitter) [9], can you get your pawn elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?

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