“This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling
multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a
single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU
cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources.“
I got about halfway through before giving up on this article. I thought it was just taking a long time to get to the point then I realized one wasn't coming.
Thinking it was all a Duchamp-esque drollery, I checked to see if it was AI-generated and alas, it isn't.
Felt twinges of grief as I recognized some of these. I still miss Reader. But some weren't killed so much as became other products -- Urchin became Google Analytics, Google Mini became CSE (now Programmable Search), Google Refine became Open Refine, etc.
"There is one drug simply listed as 'KNEES' and another as 'Foot and Ankle.'"
"The database includes three varieties of Clinpro 5000 toothpaste: bubble gum, spearmint and vanilla mint. One drug, CimziaCD, includes the notation "do not use" after its name."
They provide good detail about the software they used.
"The major software tools used for the Offshore Project were NUIX of Sydney, Australia, and dtSearch of Bethesda, Md. NUIX Pty Ltd provided ICIJ with a limited number of licenses to use its fully featured high-end e-discovery software, free of charge. The listed cost for the NUIX software was higher than a non-profit organization like the ICIJ could afford, if the software had not been donated."
Securiing their communications proved more difficult than free-text search, however:
"The project team’s attempts to use encrypted e-mail systems such as PGP (“Pretty Good Privacy”) were abandoned because of complexity and unreliability that slowed down information sharing."
Ah. My read of the PGP comment was that the offshore-banking individuals / organizations had tried to use PGP but bailed. Seems that your interpretation it was the investigative team that tried but failed is the actual case.
Interesting. Sadly, far too common. I've been using PGP for well over a decade, know a small handful of people (outside of technical mailing lists) who have and can access their keys, and have actually been chewed out by some of these for sending encrypted mail.
Really, it's that publishing at the scale of a big paper requires separation of responsibilities. The workflow hasn't caught up to the new medium -- and neither has the publishing software. Newspapers are notoriously slow to adopt new tools. The New York Times was composed using linotype machines until 1978 -- about 20 years late -- and when I worked there in the late 1990s the pagination system (essentially, the CMS) was a green screen application running on a few rows of PDP-11s.
Jeremy's right -- publishing source documents is becoming a regular part of the process. DocumentCloud has accelerated that. At ProPublica we make a regular practice of it. Here's an index of documents we've published alongside stories:
