Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domainArs Technica - Timothy B. Lee Creator of a breakthrough compression algorithm fights to keep it patent-free. When Jarek Duda invented an important new compression technique called …
Meltdown and Spectre: Here’s what Intel, Apple, Microsoft, others are doing about itArs Technica - Peter Bright Intel, Microsoft, ARM, and others have responded. We dig in. The Meltdown and Spectre flaws—two related vulnerabilities that enable a wide range of …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Notes from the Intelpocalypselwn.net By Jonathan Corbet January 4, 2018 Rumors of an undisclosed CPU security issue have been circulating since before LWN first covered the kernel …
Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Matchchess.com Chess changed forever today. And maybe the rest of the world did, too. A little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go …
You’re Working in the Wrong Placemedium.com - Amar Singh At my most recent job, I did all of my best work at home. I would actively try to avoid the office for as long as possible. At home, I had two desks …
‘The building will evolve. Actually, I’m more interested in being able to see the landscape, that is a more important capability’Wallpaper* - Wallpaper Jony Ive on Apple’s new HQ and the disappearing iPhone ‘As a design team, our goal has been to get design out of the way’ – Jony Ive
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Me on the Equifax Breachschneier.com - Bruce Schneier Testimony and Statement for the Record of Bruce Schneier Fellow and Lecturer, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy …
On React and WordPressma.tt - Matt Big companies like to bury unpleasant news on Fridays: A few weeks ago, Facebook announced they have decided to dig in on their patent clause …
Against the Law: Countering Lawful Abuses of Digital Surveillancepubpub.org As a class, investigative journalists face a heightened risk of retaliation for their work. Conservative figures from the Committee to Protect …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Built to lastsixcolors.com - Jason Snell The other day Michael Tsai pointed out that numerous Mac apps and developers are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, most notably BBEdit, …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Scott Gilbertson: 'Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web'daringfireball.net Scott Gilbertson, writing for The Register: Quite a few high-profile web developers have this year weighted in with criticism and some, following a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Who is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?schneier.com - Bruce Schneier There's something going on inside the intelligence communities in at least two countries, and we have no idea what it is.Consider these three data …
Steve Jobs’ custom Apple I and other historic machines are on display at Seattle museumTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweyLong before the iPhone or even the Mac, Apple was a handful of people working in an industry that was only just beginning to take the idea of personal computing seriously. In the earliest days of those
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Mac Pro Livesdaringfireball.net - John Gruber Let’s not beat around the bush. I have great news to share:Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design …
Play button The Like Button Ruined the InternetThe Atlantic - James SomersHow “engagement” made the web a less engaging place Here’s a little parable. A friend of mine was so enamored of Google Reader that he built a clone when it died. It was just like the original, except
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Guetzli: A New Open Source JPEG Encoder From Googledaringfireball.net Robert Obryk and Jyrki Alakuijala, of Google Research Europe: At Google, we care about giving users the best possible online experience, both through …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Jonathan Zdziarski Joins Appledaringfireball.net Jonathan Zdziarski: I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a position with Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture team, and am very excited …
I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save itThe Guardian - Tim Berners-LeeIt has taken all of us to build the web we have, and now it is up to all of us to build the web we want – for everyone Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the worldwide web.
The Nokia 3310 is back - and it even has SnakeThe Guardian - Samuel GibbsThe ‘indestructible’ handset returns, complete with one-month standby time, colour screen and bags of nostalgia The rumours are true – the Nokia 3310 is back, and it even has Snake. The updated version
Testing out snapshots in Apple’s next-generation APFS file systemArs Technica - Adam H. Leventhal We brave beta software and do some cautious testing—and it looks like it works. Back in June, Apple announced its new upcoming file system: APFS, or …
Clustering Similar Stories Using LDAFlipboard Engineering Blog - Arnab BhaduryThere is more to a story than meets the eye, and some stories deserve to be presented from more than just one perspective. With Flipboard 4.0, we have released story roundups, a new feature that adds from
Apple's WebKit Team Proposes W3C Community Group: GPU on the Webdaringfireball.net Dean Jackson, from Apple’s WebKit team: Instead we need to evaluate and design a new web standard that provides a core set of required features, an …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The Problem With AMP80x24.net 16 Jan 2017 Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP is a markup language similar to HTML that allows publishers to write mobile optimized content …
I'm Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp, and This Is How I WorkLifehacker - Andy Orin Basecamp is a web-based project management tool, and like so many other software tools and startups before it, the creators of Basecamp made it for …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Why Apple’s MacBook Touch Bar Was the Right Thing to Dodaringfireball.net Matthew Panzarino: People love a Greek tragedy. Icarus has flown too close to the sun and tumbled to Earth. Apple has forgotten its core users and …
Microsoft, I forgive you!signalvnoise.com - DHH Microsoft is different now. The evil masterminds are all retired. No more Ballmer jumping around screaming for developers, developers, developers. No …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo HomeKit's Stringent Security Requirementsdaringfireball.net Here’s a report by Aaron Tilley for Forbes, from July of last year: It’s been more than a year since Apple announced HomeKit, its system for …
Why Microsoft stock just hit an all-time highRecode - Dan FrommerMicrosoft’s stock price reached an all-time high today, beating a previous record set in 1999 (!) in the heat of the dot-com bubble. Shares opened this morning at $60.31 — up 5 percent from yesterday’s
