Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminGoogle Calendar Tricky Scam Plants Phishing Links in Your Google CalendarWIRED - Lily Hay Newman At this point, you're probably keeping an eye out for possible phishing messages in your email. You know the drill: If you have any doubts, don't …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminEquifax After Equifax breach, US watchdog says agencies aren’t properly verifying identitiesTechCrunch - Zack WhittakerA federal watchdog says the government should stop relying on the credit agencies to verify the identifies of those using government services. In a report out this week, the the Government Accountability
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminCybersecurity Federal Watchdog Asks Agencies to Please Stop Relying on Credit Rating Firms After Equifax HackGizmodo - Tom McKay The Government Accountability Office is warning federal agencies including the U.S. Postal Service, the Social Security Administration, Veterans …
Kevin Carrolladded this to Start It UpIdeas 6 dos and don’ts for next-level slides, from a TED presentation expertted.com - Amanda Miller Want to prevent yawns and glazed-over eyes? Before you deliver your next speech, pitch or address, learn how to create exceptional slides by …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminIdentity Theft A Growing Threat to Your Finances: Cell-Phone Account Fraudconsumerreports.org - By Octavio Blanco Consumers have a fast-growing privacy threat to worry about. Known as cell-phone account fraud, it's when crooks open up a phony cell-phone account …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminHubble Space Telescope 140,000 Visuals of Outer Space are Free to the Public in NASA’s Image Library | Colossalthisiscolossal.com - Laura Staugaitis The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has created a library of 140,000 high definition files filled with photos, videos, and sound …
Kevin Carrolladded this to SwiftlyCompilers What’s this “some” in SwiftUI?medium.com - Mischa Hildebrand At this year’s WWDC, Apple introduced SwiftUI — a completely new approach to create user interfaces in Xcode in a declarative way. To help you get …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminTechnology USB 3 and USB-C devices can cause problems with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections, but there's a solutionZDNet - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes USB 3 and USB-C devices are everywhere, and they offer a great speed boost for peripherals and storage devices. But there's a possible downside that …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminMozilla Paid browsers are the future, and Firefox might offer a better deal than ChromeDigital Trends - Anita George The future of the internet may lie in premium web-browsing services, and it looks like Mozilla could be handling that shift better than Google. As we …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminMoon Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moonnewatlas.com - David Szondy When Apollo 11 touched down in the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, it was more than a triumph of the human spirit, it was also the story of a …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminApps iOS 13 will show locations where apps have tracked youEngadget - Jon FingasApple will be big on privacy in iOS 13, and that includes the data collected after you've granted permission. Beta testers at 9to5Mac and elsewhere have discovered the upcoming release (and iPadOS) will
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminGeorge Orwell Doublethink Is Stronger Than Orwell ImaginedThe Atlantic - George PackerNo novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful Party that rules the superstate
Kevin Carrolladded this to under the hoodWomen's News A Grad Student Solved a Fundamental Quantum Computing ProblemWIRED - Erica Klarreich In the spring of 2017, Urmila Mahadev found herself in what most graduate students would consider a pretty sweet position. She had just solved a …
Kevin Carrolladded this to NodejsAlgorithms A Simple Introduction to K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithmmedium.com - Dhilip Subramanian K Nearest Neighbour is a simple algorithm that stores all the available cases and classifies the new data or case based on a similarity measure. It …
Kevin Carrolladded this to Start It UpWork-life Balance 10 uncomfortable deeds that will pay off foreverLadders - Travis Bradberry Sticking to your comfort zone means sagnation. Here are some of the best things to do that may make you uncomfortable and will lead to future success. …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminTechnology Ring Is Using Its Customers’ Doorbell Camera Video For Ads. It Says It's Allowed To.buzzfeednews.com - Davey Alba and Ryan Mac "You hereby grant Ring and its licensees an unlimited, irrevocable, fully paid and royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide rights to exploit Shared …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminNational Security Agency (NSA) NSA Warns Microsoft Windows Users: Update Now Or Face 'Devastating Damage'Forbes - Davey WinderI can’t recall ever seeing the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) jumping in and warning users of Microsoft Windows to check if their systems are fully patched and, if not, to update now or risk a “devastating”
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminScience Decoding the Mathematical Secrets of Plants’ Stunning Leaf Patternssmithsonianmag.com - Maddie Burakoff To the untrained eye, plants may appear to grow rather impulsively, popping out leaves at random to create one big green jumble. Take a closer look, …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminGitHub GitHub shocks top developer: Access to 5 years' work inexplicably blockedZDNet - Liam Tung Three incidents in the past week illustrate the sometimes unavoidable risks involved in relying on cloud providers. Microsoft's code-sharing site …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminApple 7 iPhone privacy settings you should enable nowMashable - Jack MorseSorry eyes. Times have changed. These days, your iPhone (and all its accumulated data) is the window to your soul. Everything — that's your contacts, your location, your photos, your emails, your texts,
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminArbitration How to Opt Out of Chase's New 'Binding Arbitration' RuleLifehacker - Lisa Rowan Chase has started rolling out a new binding arbitration rule for its credit card users, Fast Company’s Cale Guthrie Weissman first reported last week. …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminTechnology Use Wolfram Alpha to find out everything Google can't tell youPopular Science - By David NieldBut we admit "Wolfram Alpha-ing" isn't as easy to say as "googling." Google is synonymous with search, but it's not the only option for online queries. You probably know about Bing, and maybe you've heard
Kevin Carrolladded this to NodejsLiberal View Chase just tried to screw its credit card holders. Here’s how you can fight back.ThinkProgress - Ian Millhiser The Supreme Court gave Chase a license to break the law, but there's a way out. JPMorgan Chase, the banking behemoth that provides credit cards to …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminTechnology US now requires social media info for visa applicationsEngadget - Jon FingasIf you want to stay in the US, you'll likely have to share your internet presence. As proposed in March 2018 (and to some extent in 2015), the country now requires virtually all visa applicants to provide
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminData Breaches Security Systems Of Major Hotel Chains Exposed By Huge Data BreachForbes - Davey WinderSelf-styled “hacktivist” researchers have this week revealed a truly huge data breach with implications for many major hotel chains around the globe. Rather than revealing financial or guest information,
Kevin Carrolladded this to Start It UpBenjamin Franklin 10 lessons from Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule that will double your productivityLadders - Mayo Oshin Even though it was created over 300 years ago, it contains timeless principles. Benjamin Franklin is best remembered as one of the Founding Fathers of …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWeb Servers I can see your local web serversjameshfisher.com How many web servers are running on your machine right now? Do all of those development web servers have a secure login, and restrictive CORS …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWriting How to do hard thingsdrmaciver.com - david This is a system I only somewhat tongue in cheek refer to as “The Fully General System For Learning To Do Hard Things”. It’s a useful conceptual …
Kevin Carrolladded this to under the hoodScience What’s the Magic Behind Graphene’s ‘Magic’ Angle?Quanta Magazine - David H. Freedman A new theoretical model may help explain the shocking onset of superconductivity in stacked, twisted carbon sheets. The blockbuster discovery last …
Kevin Carrolladded this to sysadminIKEA ESP8266 Upgrade Gives IKEA LEDs UDP Superpowershackaday.com - by: Tom Nardi It can be difficult to resist the impulse buy. You see something interesting, the price is right, and even though you know you should do your research …
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