Today we lead with another data breach, this time The Next Web reports about a breach at the US government. Details are still a bit sketchy, but they are talking about 4 million federal employees over several years. Both Sides of the Table continues the recent batch of great funding articles as he takes a… Read More Geek Reading June 8, 2015
Plenty of good articles today, but we are going to focus on security. On Threatpost, they discuss how a kids toy can be used to open fixed-code garage doors in 10 seconds. Granted, the toy is “enhanced” a bit, but it goes to show how easy it is to crack some things. Sakurity reports on… Read More Geek Reading June 5, 2015
Fairly slow news day, so today we have an odd selection of articles. Every job has its issues, but we tend to overlook some due to salary or benefits. DaedTech takes an interesting look at this in his post, “Career Advancement for the Low Price of Your Soul”. Martin Fowler talks about how microservices may… Read More Geek Reading June 4, 2015
Today’s articles are lead by all things job related. On Both Side of the table, they discuss what leadership entails and how it differs with different teams and people. On Feld Thoughts, Brad Feld talks about convertible notes for startups, their terms and whether they are pre-money or post-money. It is a very good read… Read More Geek Reading June 3, 2015
Google continues to lead the news as they announced their new security offering, My Account. This allows you to take control of your Google account and all of the related security information. David Pichsenmeister discusses what startups can do better by building minimum loveable products. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the… Read More Geek Reading June 2, 2015
The Next Web leads the day with reporting on Google’s Project Soli. It is some more cool stuff from Google I/O. There are several other Google related items as well. Polymer 1.0 was announced, a new GMail push API is available, and the new Google Identity Platform was announced. As always, enjoy today’s items, and… Read More Geek Reading June 1, 2015
Google I/O dominates the news today. First, Google launched Android Pay with a good list of partners. Next, Google “Now on Tap” is the next generation of Google Now and it looks amazing. Google also created an Android-based operating system for the internet of things. Lastly, Google’s new cloud test lab lets developers quickly test… Read More Geek Reading May 29, 2015
Recode leads our day with some reporting on Mary Meeker’s internet trends for 2015. The slides are a must read, as they are every year. Google adds app deep linking using goo.gl addresses. This should be a nice boon for mobile developers. In security and operations, Banyan talks about the problem of vulnerabilities in many… Read More Geek Reading May 28, 2015
The Next Web starts our day by reporting on a hack at the IRS where data from over 100,000 taxpayers was likely stolen. Thankfully, it is not a huge number, but the IRS is one place we do not want data stolen from. Martin Fowler revisits the idea of YAGNI (you aren’t gonna need it)… Read More Geek Reading May 27, 2015
Venture Beat leads off today reporting on the announcement that Charter Communications will acquire Time Warner Cable. There is a much greater likelihood that this deal works compared to the Comcast deal. FastML talks about real-time interactive movie recommendations. On Flowing Data, they point us to a fascinating interactive graph where you can look at… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2015
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