Daily Tech News 1 December 2025

• Would you like to buy a clue... For $1 million? (AP)
  
  There's a sculpture called Kryptos at the CIA offices in McLean, Virginia, which contains four panels of encrypted text. Three have been decrypted by puzzle-solvers, but the fourth has defied all attempts since the installation was created in 1990.
  
  The artist, now aged 80, has auctioned off his notes and clues to the contents of that fourth panel... For close to $1 million.

• LLVM-MOS is a fork of the LLVM compiler suite for the 6502. (LLVM-MOS)
  
  It supports everything from the Ohio Scientific Challenger 1, which shipped in 1976, to the Commander X16, which shipped as a developer edition last year and is available for purchase right now.
  
  
  
• Google Antigravity just wiped my D drive. (Reddit)
  
  Not my D drive. It's AI shit and I don't give AI shit access to anything I don't want destroyed.
  
  
  
• Looking at a water-cooled RISC-V AI workstation. (The Register)
  
  It costs $12,000, but it has four AI accelerator cards each with four 800Gb Ethernet ports. So if nothing else it's an astonishingly fast router.
  
  
  
• The Lotus Diplomat is a double-wide Blackberry. (Notebook Check)
  
  It has a 5" 2560x1920 screen - and a 1" secondary screen - and a QWERTY keyboard with a number row at the top and a function/punctuation row at the bottom. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite and equipped with 24GB of RAM and 1.5TB of storage.
  
  Price is not mentioned, and you might be best off not asking.
  
  
  
• AI is transforming spacecraft propulsion - and may lead to nuclear-powered rockets. (Fast Company) (archive site)
  
  No it isn't, and no it won't.

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