Today we start with a surprise announcement that Parse is shutting down at the end of this year. This sounds fairly odd given the popularity of the product and the potential increase in developer attention that Facebook gets. I am sure many developers are hoping that the product is just being integrated into some Facebook… Read More Geek Reading January 29, 2016
Leading the day is another story related to artificial intelligence. Google talks about AlphaGo, their new machine learning engine that can beat professional players in the game Go. This is a very interesting development given that Go was seen as an intractable problem for many years. Can skynet be far behind? On the Java product… Read More Geek Reading January 28, 2016
Today’s top story is a sad one. Marvin Minsky, one of the fathers and innovators of AI, has passed away. The post by Philip Greenspun is one of the best that I could find. Given that it is yet another day, we have yet another security issue. The Next Web reports on another Uber issue… Read More Geek Reading January 27, 2016
Leading the day is yet another security issue, this one reported on Bits Please. They describe an Android privilege escalation to mediaserver from zero permissions. Some of the security issues that I list tend to be more research based than potential threats, and this falls into the research category. That does not mean that you… Read More Geek Reading January 26, 2016
There are a lot of good articles today, so set aside some time for reading. Leading the day we have TechCrunch reporting on the Docker acquisition of Unikernel Systems. It will be interesting to see how Docker uses the technology. Kaggle introduced Kaggle Datasets, so you can review and use some of the datasets from… Read More Geek Reading January 25, 2016
Google leads the day with the announcement from their cultural institute about 1000 museums at your fingertips. The coolest part is that you can zoom into the images so far that you can see the brushstrokes. ThreatPost reports on a serious Linux kernel vulnerability and its patch. High Scalability has an interesting post on scaling… Read More Geek Reading January 22, 2016
It was a fairly slow news day, but there are still some good articles to read. At Atomic Object, they talk about using the “penny game” to show why your team is falling behind. Wolfram has announced their new programming lab. This could be a great way for people to learn something new. On Pyevolve,… Read More Geek Reading January 21, 2016
A new day means a new security issue. Foxglove Security reports on a windows privilege escalation. On DZone Agile, there is a commentary on how happy people still quit their jobs. This is a response to a post recently about employees having their “shields down”. Jeremiah Owyang talks about the collaborative economy and how it… Read More Geek Reading January 20, 2016
Leading our day, High Scalability has a post on which cloud service to use based on your requirements, like throughput or latency. It is an interesting perspective on the services, especially because most posts focus on cost. Wired reports on researchers who found a zero-day exploit based on the hacking team’s leak. For people looking… Read More Geek Reading January 19, 2016
Starting our week, we have Sam Altman ranting against the growth at all costs pattern in startups. His take is that finding the right type of growth is more important, mostly with product-market fit. On KD Nuggets we get a discussion on the differences between machine intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Lastly,… Read More Geek Reading January 18, 2016
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