The charging documents say a hacker identified as "Sharpie" used information Keys supplied in an Internet chat room to access the Times' computersystem.
External hard drives are a good way of keeping transient data off your computer's core hard drive, which should give your operating system some extra room to do its job more efficiently.
The D-Wave computer operates as an adiabatic quantum computer, and consists of a superconducting 128-qubit chip in a cryogenics system within a 10 square meter room.