It's just a hardware busy wait loop, totally acceptable for its time. Power awareness didn't kick in for a solid decade after this chip was first marketed, and prior to that frequencies were so low strategies like this would have been fine
Ansible was never Red Hat's to open source, the only open sourcing in that space is AWX, and it lacks release tags, working migrations or any meaningful community self-support that doesn't result in "you need to talk to us if you're doing this" on GitHub. It's a GPL'd code dump actively hostile to having a meaningful community develop around it
Given Reuters cite the air force as their source, would anyone hazard theories as to why they're so happy to announce the movements of a supposedly secret plane? It's pretty much in the news every time anything happens involving it, which seems quite intentional.
Is it perhaps just some kind of announcement of a capability to foreign countries?
App security is still not on a par with other language ecosystems.. I don't think for example I've heard of a Python based SQL injection in many years. Stuff like that seems to still crop up regularly in PHP land
As good a time as any to be reminded.. if you have to run any kind of PHP app, always keep it in its own VM and preferably with no access to anything except its own databases, and ideally with minimal outbound Internet access.
PHP security has improved markedly over time (especially app security, not just the runtime), but it's still.. well.. stuff like this. This time around I'm lucky that the sole app I run was using Apache