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Mt. Gox forensic accounting
Walking assets through the blockchain
2014-02-28 bitcoin • mtgox • fraud
DNS root key party
How the central keys to DNS are managed
2014-02-28 via:metafilter • security • priesthood • dns • icann
Inside Mt. Gox heist
Plausible reporting based on an anonymous inside source
2014-02-28 bitcoin • mtgox • fraud
Pando Media Booster is malware
Formerly skeezy bandwidth stealing app now is a browser hijack
2014-02-28 games • lol • leagueoflegends • malware • badtech • pando
Webcam chats stolen
Governments captured random people's webchat images for surveillance
2014-02-27 surveillance • civilrights • gchq • nsa • opticnerve • via:waxy
Chrome v33 optimizes sin(x)
Unintended consequences of changing floating point functions
2014-02-27 chrome • javascript • math • floatingpoint • d3js
Use urandom
Good advice for how to generate random numbers on Unix systems
2014-02-26 linux • unix • random • crypto • security
Our Comrade The Electron
Amazing talk by Maciej about technology and surveillance
2014-02-26 technology • surveillance • talk • webstock
IAmA: Crispin Glover
Unfiltered, apparently
2014-02-25 movies • crispinglover • reddit
Bitcoin Mining Rigs
Hilarious photo collection
2014-02-25 bitcoin • hardware • funny
Ban gays from NFL
DC lobbyist is drafting a bill
2014-02-25 gayrights • civilrights • nfl • gay
About SkyCube
Kickstarted satellite finally deployed next week; I bought a bit of time on it
2014-02-24 kickstarter • skycube • satellite • space • southernskies
Linux backdoor 2003
Exploit code was inserted into Linux kernel; only caught because there were two source repositories
2014-02-24 linux • security • badtech • backdoor • bitkeeper
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 wholefoods • food • culture
Bellovin on goto fail
Analysis of Apple's bug
2014-02-24 apple • ssl • gotofail
Google search by image
Like TinEye; search for images based on visual similarity. Since 2011!
2014-02-23 google • search • images • tineye • via:spullara
Edge-on Saturn
Beautiful image from Cassini with the rings just a thin slice
2014-02-23 saturn • astronomy • cassini • via:vruba
Economist chart style
Brilliant dissection of a very effective visualization technique
2014-02-23 economist • theeconomist • visualization • charts • design
1865 miner's letter
Funny story about the hazards of wealth
2014-02-23 nevadacounty • grassvalley • miner • wealth • 1865
Idem Paris
Short documentary film by David Lynch about a Paris print shop
2014-02-23 prints • davidlynch • paris
Civic procurement
Examples of why government websites suck
2014-02-23 codeforamerica • procurement • government
WhatsApp DMCA abuse
Company sent fraudulent takedown notices to GitHub
2014-02-22 whatsapp • facebook • dmca • copyright
Apple's SSL bug
Simple typo; bad thing is no code review nor testing caught it
2014-02-22 apple • bugs • testing • ssl • openssl
How I would have ended Bioshock
Interesting proposal for an alternate horror ending
2014-02-22 bioshock • games • bigdaddy
LTE report
US behind in wireless data speeds, still
2014-02-21 wireless • lte • cellular
iOS broke SSL
Clown college is in session at Apple
2014-02-21 badtech • ssl • security • ios
Brett Camper vector maps
Amazing WebGL 3d vector maps
2014-02-21 via:migurski • maps • opengl • osm • openstreetmap
WhatsApp Erlang talk
Interesting slides about scaling
2014-02-21 via:jm • erlang • whatsapp • programming • scaling
"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 games • king • candycrush • zynga • farmville • funny
WhatsApp founding
Details on Jan Koum and the origin of WhatsApp
2014-02-20 whatsapp • facebook • entrepreneurs • startups • business
Eve: True Stories
Events from Eve Online are being made into a comic book
2014-02-19 comics • eveonline • games • ccp • mmos
Tainted Love
Music by floppy drive motors, vocals by Soft Cell
2014-02-19 taintedlove • softcell • music • funny • via:metafilter
FSF v Cisco
FSF had to sue to enforce the GPL on Linksys routers
2014-02-19 gpl • licensing • fsf • cisco • freesoftware
Liberty in North Korea
Agency offering help to North Koreans who've escaped
2014-02-19 dprk • northkorea • humanrights • charity
Netflix/Comcast update
Details about the net neutrality battle (WSJ paywall)
2014-02-19 wsj • news • comcast • netflix • netneutrality • internet
Cubesat launch
Nice photo of very small satellites being launched off the back of the space station
2014-02-18 iss • nanosat • cubesat • nanoracks • space • satellite
Brian Krebs profile
Info on the well known security reporter
2014-02-18 security • badtech • krebs • krebsonsecurity
Linksys malware
Worm "The Moon" exploits remote management, which defaults to off
2014-02-17 linksys • badtech • themoon • worm
Dancing mania
People occasionally danced themselves to death in 14th-17th c. Europe
2014-02-17 dance • mania • socialmania • europe • history • dancing
Chrome font bug
Google Chrome has had a seriously broken font problem for at least 9 months. Fixed soon, we hope.
2014-02-17 google • chrome • bugs • badtech
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 games • flappybird
Network link conditioner
MacOS software to throttle the machine's bandwidth usage, for testing and traffic shaping
2014-02-16 macos • bandwidth • development • testing • qos • shaping
Google offline maps
Hidden feature in the maps app lets you cache data
2014-02-15 maps • google • offline
Google+ is a success
The goal is collecting data on users, not being a useful social network
2014-02-15 google • googleplus • advertising • ads • surveillance
Decoding NatGeo digital images
Converting the files on the National Geographic archives into reasonable image files
2014-02-15 nationalgeographic • cng • images • magazine
NTP DDoS report
Details on how much traffic was generated
2014-02-14 ntp • ntpd • monlist • badtech • security • ddos • dos • cloudflare
Good Samaritan Backfire
Insane interaction with San Francisco police
2014-02-13 sfpd • sanfrancisco • 911 • police • civilrights
Cable consolidation
A timeline of the loss of competition in the US telecomm market
2014-02-13 cable • competition • antitrust • comcast
Optimizing twitter images
440x220 is native size, various tricks for making Twitter display images the way you want
2014-02-13 twitter • seo • graphics
30 year old satellite, incommunicado
Evocative story, we've lost the ability to talk to ICE/ISEE-3
2014-02-13 space • newaesthetic • satellite • vger
Imagus extension
Chrome extension to show linked images on hover, also image viewer improvements
2014-02-13 images • hoverzoom • chrome • extension
Before they pass away
Photographs of various peoples in traditional outfits
2014-02-13 costume • photography • culture
Careto malware
Evidence of another government malware weapon
2014-02-13 via:jnoxon • malware • badtech • careto • themask
Simple Open Data
Advice on how to publish data for reuse
2014-02-12 data • license • opendata • creativecommons
Sochi OSM history
Area for the Olympics was well mapped for years, not just a push for the event
2014-02-12 olympics • sochi • maps • osm
Luke and Leia had sex
Confirmation via film stills
2014-02-12 via:jemiah • funny • starwars
music21
Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology
2014-02-11 music • python • programming
Sochi maps: Google v OSM
OpenStreetMap shines for Sochi
2014-02-11 maps • google • openstreetmap • osm
Top tweeted Olympics photos
Nice collage / data analysis
2014-02-11 olympics • twitter • photos • journalism
Google taking over Moffett
Unloved military / NASA airport to be fixed up, run by a Google subsidiary
2014-02-11 google • aviation • 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 terrorism • fbi • civilrights
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 • slabcity • salvationmountain
GridCoin
Yet another altcoin, this one tries to do useful computation instead of time wasting
2014-02-11 boinc • setiathome • bitcoin
Mt. Gox attack
Weakness in Bitcoin protocol leads to Mt. Gox losing money
2014-02-10 bitcoin • mtgox • badtech
right+GPS time zone
Alternate approach to handling leap seconds
2014-02-10 time • ntp • leapsecond
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 • timarmstrong • healthcare • insurance
Bitcoin Ponzi
An entirely transparent Ponzi scheme
2014-02-09 ponzi • scam • bitcoin • funny
Snowden: wget -r
Details of how Snowden might have grabbed so many NSA documents. Complete lack of internal security or monitoring.
2014-02-09 snowden • civilrights • nsa • 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 patents • legal • cisco
Against hoppy beer
Nice article about the failing of American beer
2014-02-08 beer • hops • bitter • via:tbray
Tabula Rogeriana
More detail on the 12th century world map
2014-02-08 maps • history • 12thcentury
1154 world map
By Muhammad al-Idrisi
2014-02-08 maps • 12thcentury • history
Gamoloco
Twitch analytics, alpha project showing what games people are watching
2014-02-08 games • twitch • analytics
Dolores Park economy
Shhh: there's various grey and black market merchants in the city park
2014-02-07 sanfrancisco • dolores • sf • marijuana
MtGox freezes accounts
The formerly largest Bitcoin exchange siezes everyone's money. Temporarily, they say.
2014-02-07 bitcoin • mtgox • fraud
Grammar of Doge
It's a system
2014-02-07 via:amitp • grammar • doge • meme • funny
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 aol • internet • benefits • 401k • timarmstrong
US bus and Amtrak routes
Nice map
2014-02-06 maps • transit • unitedstates • america
/r/actualmoney
the hot new currency trend, bigger than Bitcoin
2014-02-05 bitcoin • money • funny • currency
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 projections • google • epsg3857 • mercator • maps
Pornhub during Super Bowl
Broncos fans turned back to porn first
2014-02-04 porn • pornhub • funny • superbowl
Twitter: Jorn Barger?
Legendary OG blogger robotwisdom apparently pops up with a new Twitter account
2014-02-03 twitter • robotwisdom • blogging
Hubble glitch
Interesting mistake image from the Hubble Space Telescope
2014-02-03 hubble • space • telescope • glitch
FISA requests to Google
Finally some data on secret spying requests
2014-02-03 google • privacy • civilrights • fisa
OpenHeatMap
Simple site for making chloropleths, etc from spreadsheets
2014-02-03 maps • chloropleth • visualization
Why Don't We Have Both?
One of the funnier meme GIFs
2014-02-02 gif • meme • tacos • funny
History of 'What Time Is the Super Bowl?'
Interesting account of silly SEO tricks
2014-02-02 google • seo • linkbait • superbowl
Vipukirves
Asymmetric ax, looks like it could work.
2014-02-02 wood • finland • chopping • axe • 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 • paris • france
Yahoo building search?
Rumors of early projects
2014-02-01 yahoo • search • google • bing • microsoft
Jerry's map
Guy spends 50 years drawing a fictional map
2014-02-01 maps • procedural • games
Dear America, I Saw You Naked
Amazing essay from a former TSA agent
2014-02-01 tsa • security • airport • via:metafilter