Krebs on Security starts our week with an update on the Wendy’s data breach. They are up to over 1000 stores affected. Brian de Heus shows us how to hide a payload in a PNG using Python. At Machine Learning Mastery, they give us some ideas on how to deal with missing values in machine… Read More Geek Reading July 11, 2016 #1145
Security articles lead our day, but the first one is good news. Google talks about building a safer web for everyone, including some GMail improvements. Krebs on Security follows with some news about skimmers hijacking ATM network cables. The moral of the story is, if you see an odd set of wiring, do not use… Read More Geek Reading February 10, 2016 #1039
We focus on personal productivity to start our day. On the Todoist blog, my favorite productivity tool, they have the “ultimate” guide to personal productivity methods. The guide lists the most popular methods around and provides some good highlights for each. As we head into the new year, this is a good post to review… Read More Geek Reading December 2, 2015
Seth Godin leads the day again with a post about entitlement and worthiness. Basically, don’t assume you are owed anything, you need to work at things in order to be rewarded. Troy Hunt talks about a large security breach at 000webhost that the company is trying to keep quiet. It is an interesting story and… Read More Geek Reading October 30, 2015
We have a mix of stories today. In development, we have Mark Reinhold talking about the state of the module system, aka Project Jigsaw which will be in Java 9. Next, Daniel Lemire gives us an interesting take on who is typically responsible for progress, hackers or academics. On Mindful Chaos, they talk about how… Read More Geek Reading September 14, 2015
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
I rarely talk about funding or acquisitions, but today is one of those days. First, TechCrunch reports on Verizon buying AOL for $4.4 billion. That is one big number and shows that Verizon wants to become a full media company. The second item comes from a MarkLogic press release where they announce $102 million in… Read More Geek Reading May 13, 2015
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