What have I been reading this week? (20150829)

2015-08-22

- Tell PulseAudio to ignore a USB device using udev Jamie Nguyen
- Science isn't broken

2015-08-23

- You re Never Weird On the Internet Almost by Felicia Day

2015-08-24

- The MOOC revolution that wasn t
- 8086tiny: a tiny PC emulator/virtual machine
- Deanonymization Made Simple
- German girl abandons ordinary rented flat to live on trains
- Police secretly track cellphones to solve routine crimes

2015-08-25

- Harvard MIT researchers highlight on-line class cheating - The Boston Globe
- DeepMind: inside Google's super-brain Wired UK
- Determining the Age of Fingerprints

2015-08-26

- Everyone is a beginner at something

2015-08-27

- What is Docker? Conetix

2015-08-28

- Why Do Colleges Give Out Honorary Degrees?

2015-08-29

- Captures and Analysis of the QUANTUMINSERT Attack

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What have I been reading this week? (20150822)

2015-08-16

- The network is hostile
- Deep learning for assisting the process of music composition part 1
- In Realtime: Prepping for the Transfer of 25 000 Manuals
- POMDPs for Dummies: Page 1
- DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge
- The TTY demystified

2015-08-17

- Automation angst

2015-08-19

- Build a Virtual SuperComputer with Process Virtualization
- Bitcoin Fork Divides Community - Slashdot

2015-08-20

- The Changing Face of Shenzhen the World's Gadget Factory
- Basic CPU
- Work Hard Live Well
- Ashley Madison leaked data is now searchable but don't
- Api.ai Raises $3M For Its Siri-Like Conversational UI Makes Developer Usage Free
- The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code Backchannel
- Stop calling it the Sharing Economy. That isn t what it is.
- Open-source distributed deep learning for the JVM
- Introducing the Technical Preview of Docker Engine for Windows Server 2016
- Cryptography And Quicksand

2015-08-21

- How Autistic People Helped Shape the Modern World

2015-08-22

- Cybersecurity s Human Factor: Lessons from the Pentagon
- Data Wrangling: Making data useful again
- When the U.S. Almost Nuked the Moon

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Example of shooting self in foot...

Interesting. This Business Insider article seems to indicate that the reason that children (and the rest of us) are watching less TV is the TV networks. Methinks the goddess Karma is involved.

What's been in my bag this week? (20150815)

I seem to have gone a bit wild with my new tool. I promise that future posts will be a bit shorter. My other excuse is that some of the below is fall-out from "the silly season", that week or two after DEFCON where news gets a bit odd. It's amplified slightly, this year, by election "theater" starting early.

2015-08-09

- The man making puzzles for hackers - BBC News
- Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
- Tech Firm Ubiquiti Suffers $46M Cyberheist Krebs on Security
- Here s Why Your Brain Seems Mostly Dormant - Issue 27: Dark Matter - Nautilus
- That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket
- The day I ordered pizza that 'doesn't exist' - BBC News
- DEF CON: HDMI CEC Fuzzing
- The Point Of The Banach Tarski Theorem
- The Other Other Rope Around The Earth
- TV networks are stuffing more and more ads into the commercial breaks in a 'desperate' attempt to counter plummeting ratings
- What it means to go pro in data science

2015-08-10

- Deleting your browser history could land you in prison
- Docker Basics: A practical starters guide Conetix
- Distributing files via DNS
- Composing Music With Recurrent Neural Networks
- Algorithmic Trading: The Play-at-Home Version
- Eisenbahnnet: Bohr's trip about spin
- Presumption of stupidity
- G is for Google
- The Turn - 93.12
- Design machines
- War in Space May Be Closer Than Ever
- Le Szil rd: A Forgotten Father of the Atomic Bomb
- Quantum weirdness is everywhere in life Johnjoe McFadden Aeon

2015-08-11

- I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away worried.

2015-08-12

- Not Even Close: The State of Computer Security with slides - James Mickens
- Which of the President s Men Exactly? JSTOR Daily

2015-08-13

- Felicia Day's "You're Never Weird on the Internet Almost "
- Secrets of the Deep
- 20 Things I've Learned From Larry Page
- root localghost:

2015-08-14

- 2015 Royal Observatory Greenwich
- Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked

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What's been in my bag this week? (20150808)

2015-08-06

- Artificial Intelligence Is Already Weirdly Inhuman - Issue 27: Dark Matter - Nautilus
- Build A 300-Mile Wall Around SF During Burning Man

2015-08-07

- New evidence of Japan's effort to build atom bomb at the end of WWII

2015-08-08

- Sridhar Vembu: The Code Breaker
- Political Battles Over Patent Reform in the United States and Tax on Nonexistent Things
- The Rise of Patents as Just a Marketing Tool

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