This post will explore my thoughts on how the economics of physical ransom translate to digital ransom, and how we as an industry might want to reconceive our current approaches to considering and dealing with ransomware – and the criminals who run ransomware campaigns. | Continue reading
The company behind the app won’t say exactly what it does—but it does want to brag about the big tech company it beat to get the job. | Continue reading
"Many publishers are just starting to think about how they might create a technology stack that smartly and efficiently collects, and effectively uses, first-party data to drive growth in their advertising, subscription, and e-commerce businesses." | Continue reading
Looking back at 2019, many revolutionary single-board computers (SBCs) have been released. For example, some of them are the Raspberry Pi 4 which boasts ground-breaking processing and performance speed and a huge increase in memory and connectivity compared to the previous Raspbe … | Continue reading
Two federal inspectors warned that “mystery” meat and other unwanted materials will contaminate pork throughout the U.S. | Continue reading
“A leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.” | Continue reading
A rundown of our podcast about CEOs. Politics, and Mobile Phone Wars – with Myriam Joire from the Mobile Tech Podcast. How to CEO. | Continue reading
Testing is essential, but it’s secondary. Sorry. | Continue reading
Dependency injection (DI) is a well known and fashionable pattern. Most of engineers know its advantages, like:Making isolation in unit testing possible/easyExplicitly defining dependencies of a... | Continue reading
NSF-commissioned study by the independent JASON group calls foreign influence threat a complex issue that ‘can be addressed within the framework of research integrity’ | Continue reading
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The SuperTux Team is excited to announce the availability of SuperTux 0.6.1. This is first and foremost a bugfix release that fixes reported issues after the release of 0.6.0 a year ago, however, we also introduced a lot of other changes, such as new graphics, levels and other ga … | Continue reading
Gerry Cotten died suddenly without telling anyone the password to his cold wallet. | Continue reading
The personal information stolen from the lab test provider could include a customer’s name, address, e-mail, login, passwords, date of birth and health card number, all of which were on the computer systems the hackers accessed | Continue reading
Exclusive: The chart warns Sagittarian asylum seekers they will be in debt forever, and tells Leos they will be filled with regret. | Continue reading
NASA’s first large scale, piloted X-plane in more than three decades is cleared for final assembly and integration of its systems following a major project review by senior managers held Thursday at NASA Headquarters in Washington. | Continue reading
Yorgos Lanthimos is in talks to direct The Hawkline Monster, a gothic western about two gunslingers hired to kill a monster. | Continue reading
Purchasing devices that constantly monitor, track and record us for convenience or a sense of safety is laying the foundation for an oppressive future. | Continue reading
Facebook learns about what users are buying in order to serve them ads that reflect what they're likely to spend money on. | Continue reading
Here’s what’s happened: first, ICANN (the legendarily opaque US corporation that runs the internet’s Domain Name System) approved a change in pricing for .ORG domains, run by the … | Continue reading
Once users have shared their data online, it is generally difficult for themto revoke access and ask for the data to be deleted. Machine learning (ML)exacerbates this problem because any model... | Continue reading
Scott Budnick (producer of the “Hangover” movies) is embroiled in a complicated feud with an LA homicide cop named Sgt. Richard Biddle; Biddle has pursued his investigation against Budn… | Continue reading
Facebook will hire the "community reviewers" through a third-party contractor called Appen. | Continue reading
FEW WORDS ABOUT OUR COMPANY Volta Labs builds systems for automating complex biological workflows on a programmable chip (a microprocessor for biology). Building our system touches many fields: electrical engineering, material science, biology, robotics and computer science. Our … | Continue reading
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is headed to the upcoming HBO streaming service. | Continue reading
Recently discovered doctor’s reports prove the general did not use opiates. Time to rewrite some Civil War history. No Civil War commander wounded in the | Continue reading
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Next time you feel the need to justify to a family member, friend, or random acquaintance why you drive an old shitbox instead of a much more comfortable, modern vehicle, here’s another reason for you to trot out: your old shitbox, unlike every modern car, is not spying on you. | Continue reading