Bots Unite to Automate the Presidential Election | WIRED
Donald Trump understands minority communities. Just ask Pepe Luis Lopez. He’s one of Trump’s 7 million Twitter followers. One problem: he’s not a person. Source: Bots Unite to Automate the…
Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. Our scan discovered a large number of Microsoft OneDrive…
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Versailles in the valley|Economist 1843
The world’s mightiest tech companies are building monuments to their success. What do their new HQs say about them? Source: Versailles in the valley
Newtek Video Toaster 4000 1994 Video
From a friend on Facebook: Digital Video editing on Amiga computers back in 1994. You might recognize in this promo young Will Wheaton from Star Trek or later… Big Bang…
“All women are idiots,” and other stuff people in Russia’s tech industry say about women
“In my opinion, all women are idiots. It may strike you as ironic, but I’m absolutely sure that women are stupider than men.” Those words weren’t spoken by a Communist-era…
A Conversation With Google’s Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat | Foreign Affairs
The chief financial officer at Alphabet (formerly Google) talks to Foreign Affairs about the future of the global economy, the differences between Silicon Valley and Wall Street, and the political…
We need a social media with heart that gives us time to think | Will Hutton
As even Tim Berners-Lee has recognised, the volume of data with which we’re being bombarded prevents us from engaging in genuine debate Source: We need a social media with heart…