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After more than five decades and the appearance of innumerable books and monographs on its every facet, is there anything radically new remaining to be uncovered about the Holocaust? According to Edwin Black there is. His IBM and the Holocaust drops the bombshell of a revelation that the Nazis, in pursuing the destruction of European Jewry, were assisted in decisive ways by a leading American corporation.

I.B.M., Black reports, knowingly provided the Third Reich with the technology to identify German Jews in the period 1933-1939. After World War II broke out in Europe, Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews became a mission the company pursued with chilling success. Drawing on documents from archives in the United States and across Europe, Black tells the astonishing story of a corporation and a corporate leader, Thomas J. Watson, eagerly conniving with the Nazis as they carried out their murderous program.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/black-ibm.html

No-fly zone, military drill ban near Korea border take effect

SEOUL (Reuters) - A no-fly zone and a ban on military drills near the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea came into effect on Thursday as the once uneasy neighbors push to further defuse tensions

The measures were part of a military accord inked during last month’s inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang, which includes a halt in “all hostile acts,” and a gradual removal of landmines and guard posts within the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ).

The United States has raised concerns that the deal could undercut defense readiness amid tardy progress on North Korea’s denuclearisation, though it displayed support at an annual security consultative meeting of defense ministers on Wednesday in Washington.

“The South and the North completely removed dangers of military clash through the military agreement,” South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in told the parliament on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-southkorea-border/no-fly-zone-military-drill-ban-near-korea-border-take-effect-idUSKCN1N63FC

Exclusive: Pilot made distress call on doomed Indonesian jet's previous flight

JAKARTA (Reuters) - The pilot of a Lion Air flight from Indonesia’s Bali island on Sunday made a distress call minutes after take-off due to technical problems, but they were overcome and he pushed on to Jakarta. The same jet crashed on another flight hours later, killing all 189 people on board.

Herson, chief of the airport authority for the Bali-Nusa Tenggara area, told Reuters that after the call the pilot updated the control tower to say that the plane was flying normally and he would not return to the airport as requested.

“The captain himself was confident enough to fly to Jakarta from Denpasar,” said Herson, who goes by one name, speaking by phone from Bali and referring to the resort island’s airport.

The pilot of another plane that was approaching Bali just after the Lion Air jet had taken off said he was ordered to circle above the airport and listened in to a radio conversation between the Lion Air pilot and air traffic controllers.

“Because of the Pan-Pan call, we were told to hold off, circling the airport in the air,” said the pilot, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-crash-flight-exclusive/exclusive-pilot-made-distress-call-on-doomed-indonesian-jets-previous-flight-idUSKCN1N64ZE

French police arrest over 100 after Halloween 'purge' night riots

PARIS (Reuters) - French police arrested more than 100 people after gangs of masked youths stormed through Paris suburbs and the center of Lyon on Halloween night, authorities said on Thursday, following a message on social media calling for a “purge” against police.

Police fired teargas overnight at hundreds of youths who barged through the city center of Lyon, hassling police and passers by, shattering shop windows and setting rubbish bins on fire.

In the deprived Seine-Saint-Denis area north of Paris, a sportswear store was looted and young people robbing a grocery store attacked police with acid, according to Denis Jacob of police union Alternative Police.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-violence/french-police-arrest-over-100-after-halloween-purge-night-riots-idUSKCN1N64VD

>>3685620

kinda surprised hes not banned yet

>>3685643

The '640K' quote won't go away – but did Gates really say it?

Bill Gates denies making 1981 comment about limits of RAM needs, despite popular legend

Here's the legend: at a computer trade show in 1981, Bill Gates supposedly uttered this statement, in defense of the just-introduced IBM PC's 640KB usable RAM limit: "640K ought to be enough for anybody."

The initial PC was based on the Intel 8088, which was a hybrid 8/16-bit processor — thus the reason for the 640KB memory limit. Though tiny by today's standards — 64-bit systems can support up to 128GB of memory — 640KB at that time was an order of magnitude larger than the 64KB limit that faced users of 8-bit computers, such as the Apple II+ and the Commodore 64

Even so, Gates' alleged statement looks like one of the most dogmatic, short-sighted comments ever, a verbal blunder perhaps topped only by Digital Equipment Corp. founder Ken Olsen's 1977 quip, "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." (Olsen did actually say that, but he said later that the quote was taken out of context, and that he was referring not to PCs but to computers set up to control houses.)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/operating-systems/the–640k–quote-won-t-go-away—-but-did-gates-really-say-it-.html