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2018/01/30 #

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

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

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

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

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

2018/01/29 #

  • to-case - simple case detection and conversion for strings github.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 them reallifemag.com #

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

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

2018/01/25 #

2018/01/24 #

2018/01/23 #

  • 'Our powerful voices are no longer silenced' www.bbc.com #

  • '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 miserable boingboing.net #

  • Little Ripper is a remote controlled multicopter that carries a floatation device boingboing.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 string nodejs.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 specified developer.mozilla.org #

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

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

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

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

2018/01/22 #

  • Inside Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store techcrunch.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 Ireland blogs.microsoft.com #

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

  • Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts www.bbc.com #

2018/01/20 #

2018/01/19 #

2018/01/18 #

2018/01/17 #

2018/01/15 #

2018/01/12 #

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

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

2018/01/10 #

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

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

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

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

2018/01/08 #

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

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

  • Structuring a NodeJS module  -  variables and methods medium.com #

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

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

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

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

2018/01/07 #

2018/01/06 #

  • Await and Async Explained with Diagrams and Examples nikgrozev.com #

  • 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 it slate.com #

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

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

2018/01/05 #

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

  • Mongoose remove hook not triggered when removing documents github.com #

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

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

2018/01/04 #

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

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

  • Comedian Karl Pilkington Beat 'Black Mirror' To The Punch On Two Ideas digg.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 operations mobile.nytimes.com #

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

  • Notes from the Intelpocalypse lwn.net #

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

2018/01/02 #

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

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

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

  • How The First Subway System Was Developed digg.com #

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

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

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

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

2018/01/01 #

  • Call for tech giants to face taxes over extremist content www.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 stagnant boingboing.net #

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

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

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

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