Google is developing Orphaned VMs, a technology that allows virtual machines to continue running uninterrupted on preserved physical CPUs while the host Linux kernel undergoes live updates through the Live Update Orchestrator. The RFC patches, currently at 46 patches and led by Pasha Tatashin, introduce infrastructure for vCPU state preservation and a Caretaker bare-metal layer to handle VM operations during host reboots, though the work remains early-stage and not yet production-ready.
The Central Social Institution of Prague in 1937 housed the world's largest vertical file cabinet system, containing over 3,000 drawers across 4,000 square feet, with electrically operated elevator desks that reduced required staff from 400 to 20 workers. The facility, now a digitized archive, exemplifies the paper-era bureaucracy that inspired the term 'Kafkaesque.'