operating systems

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I'm referring to the complex control and operating systems within the rules governing power-units.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

According to Anthropic and partners, Mythos can autonomously scan vast amounts of code to find and chain together previously unknown security vulnerabilities in all kinds of software, from operating systems to web browsers.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

This is sometimes called Apple’s “walled garden.” iPhones, Macs, and Watches work like one because Apple controls the entire technology stack: the chips, the devices, the operating systems, the applications, and the cloud services.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Their capital consists not of factories, buildings and machines, but algorithms, operating systems, standards and vast, self-reinforcing user networks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

I explained how I’d seen Jesse install operating systems, play online games from chess to Quake, use astonishing ingenuity to gather archived information off the Web.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz