August 2020 Archive
2641.
Data isn’t just being collected from your phone. It’s being used to score you (washingtonpost.com)
2642.
Mozilla suspends Firefox Send (zdnet.com)
2643.
Homeland Security details new tools for extracting device data at US borders (cnet.com)
2644.
Squeak Smalltalk on a PostmarketOS Cellphone (eighty-twenty.org)
2645.
Kodak Loan Disclosure and Stock Surge Under SEC Investigation (wsj.com)
2646.
The Police Lie. All the Time. Can Anything Stop Them? (slate.com)
2647.
Microsoft Introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Donates It to CNCF (theregister.com)
2648.
What Would Happen If Trump Used Facebook to Dispute Election Results (buzzfeednews.com)
2649.
Deplacy: CUI-Based Tree Visualizer for Universal Dependencies (github.com)
2650.
Language Oriented Design and SICP with Hal Abelson [audio] (corecursive.com)
2651.
A fake blog written by AI shot to the top of Hacker News (businessinsider.com)
2652.
A Gentle Introduction to Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Hands-On Examples (dochdoch.gitlab.io)
2653.
Is insurance more expensive in Black neighborhoods? (goodcover.com)
2654.
Web apps aren't tech. They're “tech” (questinglog.com)
2655.
An Argument for Race Abolitionism (2020) (spiked-online.com)
2656.
The Matrix Was Intended to Be a Trans Story, Says Lilly Wachowski (io9.gizmodo.com)
2657.
Ask HN: Why not give unpaid leaves?
2658.
Meeting lengths are changing during coronavirus remote work (fastcompany.com)
2659.
Unpopular Opinion – Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End (eugeneyan.com)
2660.
Canada Is Allowing Dying People to Do Psychedelic Mushrooms (vice.com)
2661.
How the FBI tracked down the Twitter hackers (zdnet.com)
2662.
Apple allows bullies to shut down my app
2663.
Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley in letter to investors (cnbc.com)
2664.
Ultima IV, The Computer Game That Led to Enlightenment (newyorker.com)
2665.
Fravia’s web-searching lore (2009) (biostatisticien.eu)
2666.
Practical tips for better microcopy (learnuxd.io)
2667.
The BEAM needs an APL-y language (2018) (medium.com)
2668.
Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy in Platform (forbes.com)
2669.
The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers (2015) (medium.com)
2670.
A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons (palant.info)