The "VLSI Technologies" I remember was (before Philips/NXP bought them) the company that made most of the early ARM CPUs for Acorn, including the original ARM1.

Is this new VLSI a shambling corpse wearing the mask of the old companies name; or are Intel's lawyers being economical with the truth, and this new VLSI is the remains of the original company (or close to it) which has been spun back off into a standalone company again?

I'd call Hex-Rays Decompiler for IDA pretty serious. It can do x86/64, PPC and ARM/ARM64; I've only seen output from the x86/64 version and it did a damn good job of making assembler into C. Of course, it also has a pretty serious price tag!

If someone made a voice activated service device that could work with no internet connection, I would bite. Play my MP3s/FLACs on command from a network share, control my lights or TV with an IR blaster, support SIP for VoIP calls, perform internet searches with my preferred provider (if a 'net connection is present). In short - do not connect to the internet unless I tell it to and never transmit my voice unless it's a VoIP call.

Aren't modern servers tested for rowhammer?
My HP Integrity's offline diagnostics does three hammering tests, and will fail the diag if even a single read does not match what it should - and this is on a machine nearly 10 years old (though the diag disc is from 2012).

Real Fords are unaffected; if you read the paper, the vulnerable model are the Ka Mk2 and onward, which are actually rebadged Fiat 500's.
No Ford actually designed or engineered by Ford is in the list.

MTGOX
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He couldn't even be bothered to get a new domain name...

I can very clearly see and read his comment: it said "Nevertheless that is what coreboot does.", and that is what I responded to. The "used to be" part of his comment is quite clearly refering to the name change, and not to a change of scope. In fact, if you had read what you linked to, you would realise that coreboot/LinuxBIOS has never used the linux kernel for anything past a payload (linux was the orignal payload, as the old name suggested) - it is not (and never has been) involved in the hardware initialisation at all.

Coreboot doesn't use linux at all. Coreboot just initalises hardware, then loads a payload from ROM. That payload can be a Legacy BIOS service provider (SeaBIOS), an EFI environment (TianoCore), a bootloader (U-Boot, GRUB2), a Linux kernel, or pretty much any x86 code that does not require any BIOS/EFI services present.

No one makes decent graphics drivers. Intels drivers have so many strange oddities it's not funny (random garbage textures/shader faults), AMDs are generally naff, nVidias break themselves every so often and need a full reinstall (wiping your configuration out along with it), and Matrox releases updates once every 3 years (if you are lucky).

Here in the UK, DIN is still a used standard. Walk into an auto parts store, and they will quite happily sell you any number of DIN head units and a mount/adapter kit for your car (if it needs one...).

Office 2003 was the last truly good version of Office (in my opinon at least). It worked properly then; without the quirks of Office 2000 (and still works perfectly now, having full compatablity with the new Office file formats via an update), didn't have the deliberately obtuse ribbon user interface - which steals a large chunk of screen space, and if hidden to reclaim that space, requries more clicks than simply having a toolbar did. I fail to see any good reason to switch, as unlike the move from XP to 7, no new features of any consequence have been added, and no (positive) updates in speed or behaviour have been made.

I cannot speak for OpenOffice, as the last time I used it was ~7 years ago - and at the time OpenOffice felt like something from the Windows 3.1 era.
I also cannot speak for LibreOffice, as I have never used it.

OpenWRT Attitude Adjustment 12.04; loads of packages available from official repositories, nice webinterface, and no commercial side selling product activation keys for certain features (like DD-WRT).