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
Some big news leads the day. First, LinkedIn announced they are being acquired by Microsoft. According to reports, the purchase price is over $26 Billion in all cash. I have no idea why Microsoft wants this deal, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Google announced Tango, with the first enable phone,… Read More Geek Reading June 14, 2016 #1127
In an interesting twist, MySpace makes the news today. Motherboard reports on hackers claims about having 427 million MySpace passwords. There are some questions about the actual source of the data and when it was retrieved. Bill Jordan talks about the coming crisis in software development. His target is mostly on low quality applications built… Read More Geek Reading May 31, 2016 #1117
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
To start our day we have a post from Machine Learning Mastery about the Python ecosystem for machine learning. Josh Juneau talks about the state of Java EE8 and the question of Oracle’s leadership of various JSRs. This has become a common topic lately, so it is definitely something we need to keep watch on.… Read More Geek Reading May 3, 2016 #1097
Today we start with an excellent post from Rex Software about 3 women who radically changed the course of technology. It is a nice profile of a few of the women that formed the core of computer science that we have today. On the Android Developers Blog, they tell us how to develop for direct… Read More Geek Reading April 29, 2016 #1095
Today we have some very good AI/ML posts. First, Pete Warden tells us how to break into machine learning. It is some very practical advice on how to get started. Machine Learning Mastery, my new favorite ML blog, talks about boosting and AdaBoost. David Lettier shows us how to develop K-Means from scratch. Lastly, on… Read More Geek Reading April 26, 2016 #1092
There are a lot of good development articles to start the week. First, On DZone Java we get a “getting started” guide for Kotlin. I have started to see a lot more interest in Kotlin this year, so it seems to be a language to watch. On Java Code Geeks we have a beginner’s guide… Read More Geek Reading April 25, 2016 #1091
Starting off our week, we get more information on the IRS data breach from Krebs on Security. About 390K more people have had their data exposed, bringing the total to near 700K. VentureBeat reports on Microsoft killing Project Astoria, their tool for porting Android apps to Windows 10. This is definitely disappointing, but we will… Read More Geek Reading February 29, 2016 #1052
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
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