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2018/01/30 #

Today’s links:

  • Podcast listeners really are the holy grail advertisers hoped they'd bewww.wired.com #

  • Terry Gilliam reveals how he created his Monty Python animationsboingboing.net #

  • How the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect sites using Google Analyticsadactio.com #

  • In a world where 48 football fields of forest is lost every minute - these drones can plant 100,000 trees a daywww.weforum.org #

  • How The Guardian improbably put itself on the path to profitsdigiday.com #

2018/01/29 #

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  • to-case - simple case detection and conversion for stringsgithub.com #

  • Lonely Road - On the late night radio show Coast to Coast AM, a community of loners support each other in the alternative convictions that isolate themreallifemag.com #

  • New York investigates company accused of selling fake Twitter followerswww.bbc.com #

  • We'll Just Have This St. Vincent Tiny Desk Concert On Repeat All Day, Thanksdigg.com #

2018/01/25 #

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2018/01/23 #

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  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Overlay - 10:25)www.bbc.com #

  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Popup 10:28)www.bbc.com #

  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Redirect - 10:29)www.bbc.com #

  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' (Website - 10:30)www.bbc.com #

  • Social scientists have warned Zuck all along that the Facebook theory of interaction would make people angry and miserableboingboing.net #

  • Little Ripper is a remote controlled multicopter that carries a floatation deviceboingboing.net #

  • The util.inspect() method returns a string representation of object that is primarily useful for debugging - Additional options may be passed that alter certain aspects of the formatted stringnodejs.org #

  • The JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value to a JSON string, optionally replacing values if a replacer function is specified, or optionally including only the specified properties if a replacer array is specifieddeveloper.mozilla.org #

  • Intel tells users to stop deploying buggy Spectre patch, citing technical issueswww.theverge.com #

  • Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuanqz.com #

  • We Can Only Assume This Man Riding His Wheelchair On Top Of A Hoverboard Is A Wizarddigg.com #

  • ISO 8601 - the International Standard for the representation of dates and timeswww.w3.org #

2018/01/22 #

Today’s links:

  • Inside Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience storetechcrunch.com #

  • Linus Torvalds Calls Intel “Please don’t be broken on boot” Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage'm.slashdot.org #

  • 289 groups and individuals signed 23 SCOTUS amicus briefs supporting Microsoft's case to prevent US government seizure of emails stored on servers in Irelandblogs.microsoft.com #

  • Turkey targets Kurdish forces in Afrin - The short, medium and long storywww.bbc.com #

2018/01/20 #

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2018/01/14 #

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  • Bill Murray And Fred Armisen Return To 'SNL' As Steve Bannon And Michael Wolffdigg.com #

  • Helen Mirren Has The Best Reaction To Finding Out She's 72 Years Olddigg.com #

  • 'The whole state was terrified' - How Hawaii reacted to false missile alertwww.bbc.com #

2018/01/12 #

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  • This Is, Without A Doubt, The Best Paper Airplane We've Ever Seendigg.com #

  • Adversarial examples - attack can imperceptibly alter any sound (or silence), embedding speech that only voice-assistants will hearboingboing.net #

2018/01/10 #

Today’s links:

  • Microsoft halts AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of unbootable PCswww.theverge.com #

  • With repetition, most of us will become inured to all the dirty tricks of Facebook attention-manipulationboingboing.net #

  • Complying with the new EU data protection directive requires a top-to-bottom redo of the adtech industryboingboing.net #

  • This Intricate Marble Run Synced To Tchaikovsky Is Quite Gooddigg.com #

2018/01/08 #

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  • I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site - Here’s howhackernoon.com #

  • Our Best Evidence Yet That Humans Are Fixing the Ozone Holeearther.com #

  • Structuring a NodeJS module  -  variables and methodsmedium.com #

  • Two Major Apple Shareholders Push for Study of iPhone Addiction in Childrenwww.bloomberg.com #

  • Triple meltdown - How so many researchers found a 20-year-old chip flaw at the same timewww.wired.com #

  • The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellersnymag.com #

  • SpaceX successfully delivers government secret satellite into space then lands rocket back on earth, more really critical space stuff in 2018www.cnbc.com #

2018/01/07 #

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2018/01/06 #

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  • We’ve been told that facts have lost their power, that debunking lies only makes them stronger, and that the internet divides us - Don’t believe any of itslate.com #

  • I turned off javascript for a whole week and it was gloriouswww.wired.com #

  • The Paradox of Tolerance - should intolerance be tolerated?boingboing.net #

2018/01/05 #

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  • We asked seven transhumanists what they hope to look like when they transcend their flesh-covered bodieswww.topic.com #

  • Mongoose remove hook not triggered when removing documentsgithub.com #

  • A Saigon-based blogger and rail enthusiast has released an updated map of the city's long-dreamed of metro systemsaigoneer.com #

  • A New Silk Road - China is investing billions in building pathways to Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle Eastwww.newyorker.com #

2018/01/04 #

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  • Real trump news - Trump Angrily Throws Steve Bannon’s Signed Copy of “Mein Kampf” in Trashwww.newyorker.com #

  • Critical flaws revealed to affect most Intel chips since 1995www.zdnet.com #

  • Comedian Karl Pilkington Beat 'Black Mirror' To The Punch On Two Ideasdigg.com #

  • According to the researchers, the Meltdown flaw affects virtually every microprocessor made by Intel, which makes chips used in more than 90 percent of the computer servers that underpin the internet and private business operationsmobile.nytimes.com #

  • I’ve re-recorded Alan Turing’s “Can Computers Think?” radio broadcastsaperiodical.com #

  • Notes from the Intelpocalypselwn.net #

  • We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmarewww.theregister.co.uk #

2018/01/02 #

Today’s links:

  • On the internet, 2018 is the year the pendulum swings backwords.werd.io #

  • Iran Moves to Block Social Media Apps, Mobile Networks as Protests Spreadgizmodo.com #

  • Even More Of 2017's Best News Bloopersdigg.com #

  • How The First Subway System Was Developeddigg.com #

  • clang runs in the browser and compiles C++ to WebAssembly, which the browser then runstbfleming.github.io #

  • Hollywood A-Listers Launch Time’s Up Initiative to Fight Sexual Harassment Across the U.S. Workforcevariety.com #

  • Arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the trafficking of contraband weapons and ammunitionen.wikipedia.org #

  • Treacle tart - A smallish treacle tart when you can't trust yourself with the leftoverswww.bbc.co.uk #

2018/01/01 #

Today’s links:

  • Call for tech giants to face taxes over extremist contentwww.bbc.com #

  • Happy Public Domain day! Here are the works entering the public domain in Canada and the EU, but not the USA, where the public domain is stagnantboingboing.net #

  • North Korea's Kim Jong-un issues threats and olive branchwww.bbc.com #

  • The catastrophic consequences of the non-Neutral Net will be very hard to spot, until it's too lateboingboing.net #

  • Newspaper headlines - Britons 'upbeat' as hospitals face flu crisiswww.bbc.com #

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