RISC-V state of the union: Linux, binutils, GCC, LLVM, CompCert and OCaml support! Government funded projects in India, Israel and USA!
https://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2017/11/seventh-risc-v-workshop-day-one/
It's impressive how much momentum the project is developing.
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Super impressed that the UK government does regular scanning for vulnerabilities for servers based in the UK: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/ncsc-scanning-information
Preventative and good for the overall ecosystem.
Government agencies recommending against Tor: https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-foreign-spy-agency-bnd-attacks-the-anonymity-network-tor-and-advises-not-to-use-it/ (global passive monitoring makes onion-routing much weaker)
Tough to be an ISP -- need a backdoor for the government, but what if others get access to it?

