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Riot streaming rules
Thorny intellectual property issues in streams of online games
2015-02-28 faker • games • intellectualproperty • ip • leagueoflegends • lol
69% annual return
Bizarro French contract allows a family to trade investments on last week's prices
2015-02-27 finance • france • funny • via:metafilter
“Getting into Tech”
For non-techies; the fantastic Karen Wickre @kvox talks about her career
2015-02-27 career • humanities • kvox • liberalarts • tech • twitter
How to steal an election
Gerrymandering illustrated
2015-02-26 civilrights • gerrymandering • politics
URL fetching and make
How to do dependency checking
2015-02-25 build • caching • download • http • make
Break up the NSA
Thoughtful proposal on how to fix the NSA's problems while preserving national security
2015-02-25 civilrights • nsa • privacy
HSTS Super Cookies
Exploiting HTTP strict transport security for a new kind of user tracker
2015-02-25 http • network • privacy
GPG and Me
Moxie declares GPG a dead end; totally agree
2015-02-25 crypto • gpg • pgp • privacy
What if Betelgeuse exploded?
Accessible astronomy writing
2015-02-25 astronomy • betelgeuse
US cell coverage map
Detailed data, looks to be from driving
2015-02-25 cellular • maps • mobile
Houston's six best bowls of chili
Useful food review
2015-02-25 chili • food • texas
Formal methods success
Software proof technology finds bug in widely used sorting library
2015-02-24 formalmethods • java • programming • proof • python • sort • timsort
Mathematical ends
Unfortunate deaths of 20 mathematicians. Gödel starved himself; 65 pounds at time of death.
2015-02-24 death • math • mathematics • via:hackernews
XPilot
Venerable X11 game, multiplayer space pew pew
2015-02-24 games • space • x11 • xwindows
Dubai skyline
It's not all modern
2015-02-22 city • dubai • via:reddit
PG&E/CPUC emails
Archive of communication central to the ongoing scandal about utilities regulation in California
2015-02-22 corruption • cpuc • pge • puc
Bad diet science
Yet more evidence US health guidelines are nonsense
2015-02-21 diet • food • science
Android root certs
More SSL badness; mobile phone root certificates
2015-02-20 android • badtech • security • ssl
Snapchat is different
Smart explanation of how the app just works differently from what old people are used to
2015-02-20 apps • digg • mobile • snapchat
Cloud9 gaming house
Silly tour of a League of Legends' team's house.
2015-02-20 bro • cloud9 • games • lol
EFF on Lenovo
Includes details from their SSL Observatory on exploit prevalence
2015-02-19 ads • badtech • eff • lenovo • malware • ssl • superfish
Komodia ad SDK
Product Lenovo uses to inject ads in their customer's browsers
2015-02-19 ads • badtech • lenovo • malware
Superfish certificate
Another copy of Lenovo's MITM certificate
2015-02-19 badtech • lenovo • malware • ssl • superfish
SuperFish certificate
Someone cracked Lenovo's malware; all laptops are vulnerable
2015-02-19 badtech • laptop • lenovo • malware • security • ssl • superfish
Lenovo malware
Idiots install very dangerous adware on the computers they sell
2015-02-19 adware • badtech • lenovo • malware
Superfish cert/encrypted key
Every Lenovo laptop believes these credentials for SSL
2015-02-19 adware • badtech • lenovo • malware
pyenv
shell shims to let you switch between Python versions
2015-02-19 development • python • testing
AT&T Internet Preferences
Evil ISP tracks the web pages you view and sells info to advertisers
2015-02-18 ads • att • badtech • privacy
The Setup / Karl Anderson
Old buddy has a great little comment on hardware and software he uses
2015-02-18 futel • hardware • karlanderson • kra • reed
Equation Group malware
Details of NSA hacking
2015-02-17 badtech • civilrights • malware • nsa • privacy • security • via:metafilter
HD firmware = NSA malware
Yet more evidence of reckless sabotage of computer security by NSA
2015-02-17 badtech • civilrights • nsa • spying • via:metafilter
Why didn't we see NSA hacking?
Provocative essay on reasons we weren't more aware of NSA hacking.
2015-02-15 badtech • civilrights • networks • nsa • privacy • via:jwz
Kepler planets
Neat visualization
2015-02-14 astronomy • exoplanets • kepler • nyt • nytimes • planets • smallmultiples • visualization
Molyneux interview
Tough interview, give him credit for doing it
2015-02-14 games • godus • kickstarter • molyneux
Wireshark and TLS
You can save session keys in Chrome and have Wireshark use them to decrypt
2015-02-13 debugging • hacking • networking • pcap • security • ssl • tls • wireshark
More Molyneux fraud
The Curiosity prize turns out to be a sham
2015-02-11 fraud • games • molyneux
Google geo history
Nice overview of the origins of Google Maps, Earth, etc
2015-02-09 google • keyhole • maps • where2
Pro LoL ugliness
Scumbags who run a team threaten, don't pay 17 year old talent
2015-02-09 esports • games • leagueoflegends • lol
Crunchie sexism
Not funny attempts at jokes
2015-02-07 sexism • tech • twitter
Sidi Goma
African sufis living in India
2015-02-06 africa • dance • india • music • sufi
Promoted tweets tricks
@waxpancake figures out how to do silly tricks with Twitter ads
2015-02-04 ads • hacks • twitter
30% of revenue to dodge ad blocker
AdBlock Plus charges 30% for a big ad network to be whitelisted and not be blocked.
2015-02-04 adblock • adblockplus • ads • google • via:reddit
NSA Backdoors
Brief but comprehensive history of known examples of NSA weakening security
2015-02-03 badtech • civilrights • hacking • nsa • privacy • security
Nethack bot win
First ever(?) AI win for the crazily complex game Nethack
2015-02-03 ai • clojure • games • nethack
Jantar Mantar
18th c. Indian observatory; detailed sundials, star sightings
2015-02-03 astronomy • history • india • jantarmantar