Well, it is Tuesday and that seems to be security day. First, Reuters reports on SWIFT saying a second bank is hit by a malware attack. The Cisco Talos blog talks about multiple vulnerabilities in the 7-Zip application. 18F gives us some interesting information on how they deal with information security and third party applications.… Read More Geek Reading May 17, 2016 #1107
Google Research leads our day with the announcement of SyntaxNet. This is a great release and it will be interesting to see how things evolve. On KD Nuggets they talk about TPOT, a Python tool for automating data science. Machine Learning Mastery talks about understanding your machine learning data with descriptive statistics. This is another… Read More Geek Reading May 16, 2016 #1106
Just a short introduction today as I am traveling. Lots of good information today, so please take a look at as much as possible. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups, Career and Process Scrum Masters – First, Do No Harm | DZone Agile The Software Engineer’s… Read More Geek Reading May 13, 2016 #1105
There are some interesting articles to share today. First, Mozilla announces its new Test Pilot program, where you get to help build the future of Firefox. Google Cloud Platform announces the availability of StackDriver Trace for Google App Engine. Slack introduced “Sign in with Slack”, their new social identity offering. I am not entirely sure… Read More Geek Reading May 12, 2016 #1104
Twitter starts our day with a post about Manhattan software deployments. Machine Learning Mastery has yet another introductory post, this one about Python deep learning with Keras. Small Dropbear shows us what some of the Linux memory statistics really mean. This is a great explanation of some of these statistics. As always, enjoy today’s items,… Read More Geek Reading May 11, 2016 #1103
Starting our day, the Google Big Data blog talks about new integration of BigQuery with Google Drive. Google Cloud Platform gives us some goodies when they talk about Kubernetes and container portability. WordPress releases 4.5.2, a minor but important security release. I know that doesn’t sound like big news, but when security fixes are made… Read More Geek Reading May 10, 2016 #1102
Starting our week, we get an announcement from CloudFlare. They now have support for WebSockets for all of their customers, including those on the free plan. This is cool because you get a major provider supporting the technology, and it also shows that WebSockets are really gaining adoption. Amazon’s Big Data blog talks about integrating… Read More Geek Reading May 9, 2016 #1101
Leading our day is an excellent post on First Round Review. They talk about practical frameworks for beating burnout. This topic gets talked about a lot, but burnout is very real for a lot of people. Google Cloud Platform announced the beta availability of Ruby on Google App Engine. Honestly, this feels like a late… Read More Geek Reading May 6, 2016 #1100
Leading the day we have another security issue, this time with the ImageMagick library. Some details can be found at the ImageTragick site. LuanchDarkly gives us an interesting post on feature flags mitigating risk in database migration. At Requests for Startups, we get getting started guide for deep learning. At Count Bayesie, we get an… Read More Geek Reading May 5, 2016 #1099
Benedict Evans leads our day with an excellent post about the end of a mobile wave. Basically, we are getting to a mobile saturation point, so growth likely needs to come from someplace other than devices. XKCD gives us some funny with their comic “Message in a Bottle”. As usual, the image hover text is… Read More Geek Reading May 4, 2016 #1098
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