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TIL That Sony Created an OS to Turn Any Older PS2 Into a Desktop Computer In 2002

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wXrY TIL that a scientist breached security at Los Alamos by leaving an orange on his desk, and that any spherical object became a “nuclear secret” once it passed into a secure area of the laboratory, as it could be taken as a model for the plutonium pit that drives a nuclear weapon.
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