Blog Heap of Links for the day 18 December 2018

…Did you know that all Intel modern CPU chips have one of hell of a backdoor built into them all?

It's called the Intel Management Engine.…

And AMD has something similar.…

…11-year-old girl in Texas… Roxli Doss… diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma… [inoperable brain tumor]… Her parents, Gena and Scott, prayed for a miracle and they got it.

Her mom said: “It’s kind of our family thing that God healed Roxli.”

The girl’s medical team are equally in a state of disbelief.…

…Sometimes we may feel desperate in difficult situations because we can find no solutions. We may feel too small to face the great problems of life. At times like these, whether we are young in faith or leaders in the church, we can put our trust in God.

David knew that the king’s armor would not give him victory. It is not by strength, intelligence, wealth, or influence that we will succeed. Victory lies only in the Lord who is with us at all times.

The nearly complete skeleton of a female hominid known as ‘ Little Foot’ discovered in a South African cave more than 20 years ago was finally freed from her stone casing, and researchers have announced that she is “3.67-million-year-old” and belonged to a species of her own.…