a highly classified internal Microsoft project codenamed "Microsoft LEGO".
aka: the Basic Block Tool (BBT).
the BBT operated on the compiled binaries.
Shuffling the internal basic blocks of the code improved
efficiency and sped up execution.
a basic block is a sequence of straight-line code that has exactly
one entry point and one exit point, with no jumps or branches
in between. Microsoft engineers could rearrange them within the
binary to optimize how the processor handled the instruction
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked
with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated
with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by
the publicly-traded Israeli company
Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. Although it gained notoriety through radio host
Milton William Cooper's 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse,
credit for its compilation is attributed to
Lyle Hartford Van Dyke Jr., who emerged years later
claiming to be the principal author of it.
In a letter dated December 2003 to Paranoia Magazine,
Van Dyke wrote that he had compiled the manual around
October 1978, sent out about 65 initial copies to
personal contacts, and that one copy he gave to a
hitchhiking military individual at McChord AFB
ended up in the copier's surplus sale.
Micron's chief business officer has hinted, that Apple's tough supplier
negotiations contributed to the conditions behind the global memory
shortage.
Sumit Sadana explained that Micron was unable to fund capacity
expansion during the industry's previous slump, a period when its
margins turned negative partly because some buyers pushed relentlessly
for lower prices.
"We told a couple of the customers who were being very aggressive with
pricing at that time that this is not constructive. A lot of the industry
investments got shut down in 2023 because of really poor pricing and really
poor margins." Jim Maxwell has thrown to the shipping forecast for the last time
-- July 31, 2023