Snapshot · This Week in Tech (Audio)
Marion Stokes recorded 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes of 24-hour news broadcasts over 35 years (1977–2012), creating the largest single donation the Internet Archive ever received.
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Leo digresses into the story of Saint Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager born in 1991 who died of leukemia in 2006 after building websites for his parish and becoming fluent in Java and C++. Canonized in 2020 and featured at San Francisco's Star of the Sea Church with a statue holding a laptop, he's jokingly dubbed the patron saint for programmers. The panel closes with plugs: Lou promotes Excel Agent mode, Wesley announces DevRelCon appearances in Brooklyn July 22–23, and Patrick reminds everyone that France faces Spain in the World Cup semifinals on Tuesday. The episode's title is finally explained: Patrick casually revealed he carries a knife in Finland because wolves have been spotted near his home — prompting Leo to ask if a knife is really enough, giving the episode its name.
Joel de la Garza noted that the CISO role is a relatively recent invention, with Steve Katz widely credited as the first-ever CISO.
Superficial adoption of electricity gave factories only 6% efficiency gains; fully redesigning factories around it delivered a 3x productivity improvement that powered 20th-century US growth.
Harold Ramis recounted that during Caddyshack filming, storms kept the cast cooped up in a Florida hotel for days, during which they partied and did drugs all day and night.
In the 1820s, China accounted for 25% of global economic output, making it the world's largest economic machine — a historical precedent for its current AI superpower ambitions.
66 Americans held hostage at the US Embassy in Iran were released after 444 days, within hours of Reagan's inauguration.
In the first round of the secret arms deal, 508 TOW missiles were transferred from Israel to Iran in exchange for hostage releases.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran across 8 separate shipments over just over a year.
Despite all the missile sales, only 3 of the 7 American hostages held by Lebanese terrorists were ultimately released.
The CIA supply plane that blew open the scandal was flying at only 2,500 feet in broad daylight when it was shot down on October 5, 1986.
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