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ISRG's Prossimo is committed to moving the Internet's security-sensitive software to memory safe code and to encouraging people to prioritize memory safety.
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For the last couple of months we at Tweede golf have been working on implementing a Network Time Protocol (NTP) client and server in Rust. The project is a Prossimo initiative and is supported b ...
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NIST tried to pull the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift www.theregister.com/2025/12/2... A staffer at the USA's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage around Boulder, Colorado, led to errors. As explained in a mailing list post by Jeffrey Sherman, a NIST supervisory physicist who maintains the institute's atomic clocks, "The atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage.
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If you're reading this blog, it's a good bet that sometime in your life you've had a computer freeze or crash on you. You know that crashes happen. If it's your laptop, you restart and hope for the best. When it's your database, things are a bit more complicated. Historically, a database lived on a single machine. Writes are considered "committed" when they are written to a journal file and flushed to disk. Until then, they are "dirty". If the database crashes, only the committed changes are recovered from disk.
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