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Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic ...
Hackaday

8 Bit Mechanical Computer Built From Knex

Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks that we’d now just strap a motor or set of batteries onto and think nothing of it.
Hackaday

4-bit Single Board Computer Based On The Intel 4004 Microprocessor

[Scott Baker] is at it again and this time he has built a 4-bit single board computer based on the Intel 4004 microprocessor. In the board design [Scott] covers the CPU (both the Intel 4004 and 4040 ...
Liliputing

Bit-Brick Cluster K1 lets you build a 32-core RISC-V computer (by clustering 4 SpacemiT K1 boards)

The SpacemiT K1 is an 8-core RISC-V processor that has been tapped for several single-board computers, laptops, and tablets in the past two years. It’s not exactly the fastest processor available, ...