NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut(jeffgeerling.com)
326 points by jtokoph | 142 comments
Jeff Geerling blog post explaining how a multi-day power cut at NIST Boulder caused its ensemble clock to drift 5 microseconds from UTC.
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Seconds Since the Epoch(aphyr.com)
279 points by zdw | 200 comments
OpenBSD on Zenbleed(marc.info)
59 points by stargrave | 20 comments
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26 points by surprisetalk | 1 comments
A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.
The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)
120 points by jiegec | 6 comments
A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.
NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock(nist.gov)
337 points by voxadam | 118 comments
NIST news release announcing its aluminum ion clock set a record as the world's most accurate atomic clock, measuring time to the 19th decimal place.
What's happening inside the NIH and NSF(science.org)
861 points by rrock | 1303 comments
Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline blog post on Science.org about current events and turmoil inside the NIH and NSF, dated February 4, 2025.
Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time(pv-magazine.com)
624 points by xbmcuser | 390 comments
pv magazine article reporting that global solar generation surpassed nuclear for the first time in 2025, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026.
AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war(thebulletin.org)
11 points by bookofjoe | 3 comments
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article arguing AI could trigger nuclear war without superintelligence or malicious intent; the screenshot shows a different article on Trump-Xi strategic stability.