Today we go a little old school. First, at the ACM we get a story from Andrew Tanenbaum about lessons learned from 30 years of MINIX. If you are an older computer science major, you probably remember taking an Operating Systems class and trying to change parts of MINIX. On <re/code>, we have reporting on the latest Turing Award. This is important for two reasons, first it was awarded based on the development of cryptography and it goes to two old engineers, Diffie and Hellman. There are also a pile of security articles today. The Next Web reports on two issues. First, we get the DROWN attack. Second, they report on how a hacker got access to 27M passwords from another dating site.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX | ACM
- Turing Award Goes to Programmers Who Created Modern Cryptography | <re/code>
Startups, Career and Process
- How To Speed Your Team Up (By Slowing Them Down) | DZone Agile
- Please Don’t Learn to Code Unless… | DZone Agile
Design and Development
- Centralized logs with rsyslog, systemd and golang | Streamroot
- AWS SQS and Spring JMS integration | Java Code Geeks
- Quickstart Boot and ClojureScript | Escherize
- Kotlin Month Post 1: Assorted Features | Java Code Geeks
- Swift Abstract Syntax Tree | ankit.im
- Multithreading in C++11/14 – Part 9 | Loic Yvonnet
- How to combine the Hibernate assigned generator with a sequence or an identity column | Vlad Mihalcea
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- A Journey Through How Zapier Automates Billions of Workflow Automation Tasks | High Scalability
- Checking HashMaps with MapClashInspector | JavaSpecialists
- jcmd: One JDK Command-Line Tool to Rule Them All | Inspired by Actual Events
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Machine Learning: Bayes | RokkinCat
- Yahoo! CaffeOnSpark: Distributed Deep Learning on Big Data Clusters | KD Nuggets
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Apache Hadoop Hive Tutorial | Java Code Geeks
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Stored, Reflected and DOM XSS in Google for Work Connect (GWC) | Respect XSS
- A tale of a DNS exploit: CVE-2015-7547 | CloudFlare
- Hacker swipes 27m passwords from popular dating site proving we’ve learned nothing | The Next Web
- Thieves Nab IRS PINs to Hijack Tax Refunds | Krebs on Security
- DROWN attack is the new Heartbleed: patch now | The Next Web
Fun and Other stuff
- And the winner of the $1 Million Little Box Challenge is… CE+T Power’s Red Electrical Devils | Google Research
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1650 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – March 1, 2016 (#2199) | Morning Dew
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