Mt. Gox forensic accounting

Walking assets through the blockchain

2014-02-28 bitcoin • fraud • mtgox

DNS root key party

How the central keys to DNS are managed

2014-02-28 dns • icann • priesthood • security • via:metafilter

Inside Mt. Gox heist

Plausible reporting based on an anonymous inside source

2014-02-28 bitcoin • fraud • mtgox

Pando Media Booster is malware

Formerly skeezy bandwidth stealing app now is a browser hijack

2014-02-28 badtech • games • leagueoflegends • lol • malware • pando

Webcam chats stolen

Governments captured random people's webchat images for surveillance

2014-02-27 civilrights • gchq • nsa • opticnerve • surveillance • via:waxy

Chrome v33 optimizes sin(x)

Unintended consequences of changing floating point functions

2014-02-27 chrome • d3js • floatingpoint • javascript • math

Use urandom

Good advice for how to generate random numbers on Unix systems

2014-02-26 crypto • linux • random • security • unix

Our Comrade The Electron

Amazing talk by Maciej about technology and surveillance

2014-02-26 surveillance • talk • technology • webstock

IAmA: Crispin Glover

Unfiltered, apparently

2014-02-25 crispinglover • movies • reddit

Bitcoin Mining Rigs

Hilarious photo collection

2014-02-25 bitcoin • funny • hardware

Ban gays from NFL

DC lobbyist is drafting a bill

2014-02-25 civilrights • gay • gayrights • nfl

About SkyCube

Kickstarted satellite finally deployed next week; I bought a bit of time on it

2014-02-24 kickstarter • satellite • skycube • southernskies • space

Linux backdoor 2003

Exploit code was inserted into Linux kernel; only caught because there were two source repositories

2014-02-24 backdoor • badtech • bitkeeper • linux • security

Experimental music on Children's TV

A Tumblr collection

2014-02-24 music • tumblr • via:metafilter

US News and World Report archives

Important journalist site burns down all articles from before 2007 because of incompetent web team

2014-02-24 archives • journalism • news

Whole Foods pseudoscience

Calling out the hypocrisy of mocking creationists while buying fake medicine at Whole Foods

2014-02-24 culture • food • wholefoods

Bellovin on goto fail

Analysis of Apple's bug

2014-02-24 apple • gotofail • ssl

Google search by image

Like TinEye; search for images based on visual similarity. Since 2011!

2014-02-23 google • images • search • tineye • via:spullara

Edge-on Saturn

Beautiful image from Cassini with the rings just a thin slice

2014-02-23 astronomy • cassini • saturn • via:vruba

Economist chart style

Brilliant dissection of a very effective visualization technique

2014-02-23 charts • design • economist • theeconomist • visualization

1865 miner's letter

Funny story about the hazards of wealth

2014-02-23 1865 • grassvalley • miner • nevadacounty • wealth

Idem Paris

Short documentary film by David Lynch about a Paris print shop

2014-02-23 davidlynch • paris • prints

Civic procurement

Examples of why government websites suck

2014-02-23 codeforamerica • government • procurement

WhatsApp DMCA abuse

Company sent fraudulent takedown notices to GitHub

2014-02-22 copyright • dmca • facebook • whatsapp

Apple's SSL bug

Simple typo; bad thing is no code review nor testing caught it

2014-02-22 apple • bugs • openssl • ssl • testing

How I would have ended Bioshock

Interesting proposal for an alternate horror ending

2014-02-22 bigdaddy • bioshock • games

LTE report

US behind in wireless data speeds, still

2014-02-21 cellular • lte • wireless

iOS broke SSL

Clown college is in session at Apple

2014-02-21 badtech • ios • security • ssl

Brett Camper vector maps

Amazing WebGL 3d vector maps

2014-02-21 maps • opengl • openstreetmap • osm • via:migurski

WhatsApp Erlang talk

Interesting slides about scaling

2014-02-21 erlang • programming • scaling • via:jm • whatsapp

"Liquid Sky 2" is coming

Bonus amazing animated GIF

2014-02-20 liquidsky • movies • via:metafilter

Tim Bray leaving Google

Particularly effective communicator and developer moving on

2014-02-20 google • timbray

King IPO guide

Ugly, simple graph about game trends

2014-02-20 candycrush • farmville • funny • games • king • zynga

WhatsApp founding

Details on Jan Koum and the origin of WhatsApp

2014-02-20 business • entrepreneurs • facebook • startups • whatsapp

Eve: True Stories

Events from Eve Online are being made into a comic book

2014-02-19 ccp • comics • eveonline • games • mmos

Tainted Love

Music by floppy drive motors, vocals by Soft Cell

2014-02-19 funny • music • softcell • taintedlove • via:metafilter

FSF v Cisco

FSF had to sue to enforce the GPL on Linksys routers

2014-02-19 cisco • freesoftware • fsf • gpl • licensing

Liberty in North Korea

Agency offering help to North Koreans who've escaped

2014-02-19 charity • dprk • humanrights • northkorea

Netflix/Comcast update

Details about the net neutrality battle (WSJ paywall)

2014-02-19 comcast • internet • netflix • netneutrality • news • wsj

Cubesat launch

Nice photo of very small satellites being launched off the back of the space station

2014-02-18 cubesat • iss • nanoracks • nanosat • satellite • space

Brian Krebs profile

Info on the well known security reporter

2014-02-18 badtech • krebs • krebsonsecurity • security

Linksys malware

Worm "The Moon" exploits remote management, which defaults to off

2014-02-17 badtech • linksys • themoon • worm

Dancing mania

People occasionally danced themselves to death in 14th-17th c. Europe

2014-02-17 dance • dancing • europe • history • mania • socialmania

Chrome font bug

Google Chrome has had a seriously broken font problem for at least 9 months. Fixed soon, we hope.

2014-02-17 badtech • bugs • chrome • google

USGS map palette

Standard colors for USGS maps depicting types of rocks

2014-02-16 colors • maps • usgs

Flappy Bird MMO stats

Clever analysis of the silly game

2014-02-16 flappybird • games

Network link conditioner

MacOS software to throttle the machine's bandwidth usage, for testing and traffic shaping

2014-02-16 bandwidth • development • macos • qos • shaping • testing

Google offline maps

Hidden feature in the maps app lets you cache data

2014-02-15 google • maps • offline

Google+ is a success

The goal is collecting data on users, not being a useful social network

2014-02-15 ads • advertising • google • googleplus • surveillance

Decoding NatGeo digital images

Converting the files on the National Geographic archives into reasonable image files

2014-02-15 cng • images • magazine • nationalgeographic

NTP DDoS report

Details on how much traffic was generated

2014-02-14 badtech • cloudflare • ddos • dos • monlist • ntp • ntpd • security

Good Samaritan Backfire

Insane interaction with San Francisco police

2014-02-13 911 • civilrights • police • sanfrancisco • sfpd

Cable consolidation

A timeline of the loss of competition in the US telecomm market

2014-02-13 antitrust • cable • comcast • competition

Optimizing twitter images

440x220 is native size, various tricks for making Twitter display images the way you want

2014-02-13 graphics • seo • twitter

30 year old satellite, incommunicado

Evocative story, we've lost the ability to talk to ICE/ISEE-3

2014-02-13 newaesthetic • satellite • space • vger

Imagus extension

Chrome extension to show linked images on hover, also image viewer improvements

2014-02-13 chrome • extension • hoverzoom • images

Before they pass away

Photographs of various peoples in traditional outfits

2014-02-13 costume • culture • photography

Careto malware

Evidence of another government malware weapon

2014-02-13 badtech • careto • malware • themask • via:jnoxon

Simple Open Data

Advice on how to publish data for reuse

2014-02-12 creativecommons • data • license • opendata

Sochi OSM history

Area for the Olympics was well mapped for years, not just a push for the event

2014-02-12 maps • olympics • osm • sochi

Luke and Leia had sex

Confirmation via film stills

2014-02-12 funny • starwars • via:jemiah

music21

Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology

2014-02-11 music • programming • python

Sochi maps: Google v OSM

OpenStreetMap shines for Sochi

2014-02-11 google • maps • openstreetmap • osm

Top tweeted Olympics photos

Nice collage / data analysis

2014-02-11 journalism • olympics • photos • twitter

Google taking over Moffett

Unloved military / NASA airport to be fixed up, run by a Google subsidiary

2014-02-11 aviation • google • moffett • mountainview

Outrageous FBI coverup

Courageous woman fights the no-fly list, finally learns it was all a minor FBI mistake compounded by bullshit anti-terrorist excuses

2014-02-11 civilrights • fbi • terrorism

The usual pool

Location used for many porn films in Japan (SFW)

2014-02-11 japan • porn

RIP Leonard Knight

Artist of Salvation Mountain

2014-02-11 art • folkart • saltonsea • salvationmountain • slabcity

GridCoin

Yet another altcoin, this one tries to do useful computation instead of time wasting

2014-02-11 bitcoin • boinc • setiathome

Mt. Gox attack

Weakness in Bitcoin protocol leads to Mt. Gox losing money

2014-02-10 badtech • bitcoin • mtgox

right+GPS time zone

Alternate approach to handling leap seconds

2014-02-10 leapsecond • ntp • time

Tech Mixer

Hilarious article about some startup party thing

2014-02-10 funny • party • sanfrancisco • startups

Distressed baby mom

AOL employee's wife talks about how health insurance saved their baby's life

2014-02-09 aol • healthcare • insurance • timarmstrong

Bitcoin Ponzi

An entirely transparent Ponzi scheme

2014-02-09 bitcoin • funny • ponzi • scam

Snowden: wget -r

Details of how Snowden might have grabbed so many NSA documents. Complete lack of internal security or monitoring.

2014-02-09 civilrights • nsa • snowden • via:migurski

Beer bitterness chart

Numeric summary of how bitter various kinds of beer tend to be

2014-02-08 beer • ibu

Innovatio patent case

Cisco steps in to stop a patent shakedown

2014-02-08 cisco • legal • patents

Against hoppy beer

Nice article about the failing of American beer

2014-02-08 beer • bitter • hops • via:tbray

Tabula Rogeriana

More detail on the 12th century world map

2014-02-08 12thcentury • history • maps

1154 world map

By Muhammad al-Idrisi

2014-02-08 12thcentury • history • maps

Gamoloco

Twitch analytics, alpha project showing what games people are watching

2014-02-08 analytics • games • twitch

Dolores Park economy

Shhh: there's various grey and black market merchants in the city park

2014-02-07 dolores • marijuana • sanfrancisco • sf

MtGox freezes accounts

The formerly largest Bitcoin exchange siezes everyone's money. Temporarily, they say.

2014-02-07 bitcoin • fraud • mtgox

Grammar of Doge

It's a system

2014-02-07 doge • funny • grammar • meme • via:amitp

Coinbase fiasco

Bitcoin risks plus bad risk management design

2014-02-07 bitcoin • coinbase • fraud

AOL's 401(k)

Tim Armstrong saying things no CEO should, at least not out loud

2014-02-07 401k • aol • benefits • internet • timarmstrong

US bus and Amtrak routes

Nice map

2014-02-06 america • maps • transit • unitedstates

/r/actualmoney

the hot new currency trend, bigger than Bitcoin

2014-02-05 bitcoin • currency • funny • money

New YouTube CEO

Susan Wojcicki takes over for Salar Kamangar. Some serious shuffling of the inner palace.

2014-02-05 google • youtube

Economics of mobile games

Interesting response to the handwringing about in app purchases

2014-02-04 games • market • mobile

Blomkamp Short Films

A handy list of YouTube videos

2014-02-04 blomkamp • movies • scifi

Google mercator is non-conformal

For map nerds; the common web map projection is actually kind of a mess

2014-02-04 epsg3857 • google • maps • mercator • projections

Pornhub during Super Bowl

Broncos fans turned back to porn first

2014-02-04 funny • porn • pornhub • superbowl

Twitter: Jorn Barger?

Legendary OG blogger robotwisdom apparently pops up with a new Twitter account

2014-02-03 blogging • robotwisdom • twitter

Hubble glitch

Interesting mistake image from the Hubble Space Telescope

2014-02-03 glitch • hubble • space • telescope

FISA requests to Google

Finally some data on secret spying requests

2014-02-03 civilrights • fisa • google • privacy

OpenHeatMap

Simple site for making chloropleths, etc from spreadsheets

2014-02-03 chloropleth • maps • visualization

Why Don't We Have Both?

One of the funnier meme GIFs

2014-02-02 funny • gif • meme • tacos

History of 'What Time Is the Super Bowl?'

Interesting account of silly SEO tricks

2014-02-02 google • linkbait • seo • superbowl

Vipukirves

Asymmetric ax, looks like it could work.

2014-02-02 axe • chopping • finland • wood • woodsman

GTA V landscapes

Nice screenshot / photographic collection

2014-02-01 games • grandtheftauto • gtav • landscapes

C’est quoi cette folie du Super Bowl?

American football explained by a Paris news magazine

2014-02-01 football • france • paris

Yahoo building search?

Rumors of early projects

2014-02-01 bing • google • microsoft • search • yahoo

Jerry's map

Guy spends 50 years drawing a fictional map

2014-02-01 games • maps • procedural

Dear America, I Saw You Naked

Amazing essay from a former TSA agent

2014-02-01 airport • security • tsa • via:metafilter