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November 20, 2018

The Wax and the Furious: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Warren G. Harding and his posse of presidential wax statues team up with Armie Hammer and Russell Crowe to pull off the greatest jockstrap heist of all time.

The new supercomputer behind the US nuclear arsenal

“Sierra” was just crowned the second-most powerful supercomputer on the planet. And while most of its peers use their power for climate simulations, astrophysics, and other civilian work, Sierra is purpose-built for an entirely different mission: nuclear weapons. We took a tour of this massive system, and found out why the US builds supercomputers to support its nuclear arsenal.

Office, too? Microsoft pulls Office patches

After the October 2018 Update fiasco -- the company had to pull the feature update days after release and re-released after six weeks of silence again -- it is now Office that is plagued by updates that cause issues when they are installed.

Nintendo Switch firmware update 6.2.0 released, allegedly changes key generation mechanism

Nintendo dropped firmware update 6.2.0 for its Switch console. As often, the only official changelog states this update improves stability.
On the scene side, however, Word on the street is that this update breaks Custom Firmware compatibility, for all known CFWs. (That is, of course, for people who are running a CFW and choose to update, a very strange move in my book but who am I to judge.)