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
Paul Graham leads the day with hist post about writing like you talk. Paul doesn’t write too frequently, but when he does, you should probably listen. Gil Zilberfeld talks about how you can’t build an MVP if you are expecting it to make money. It is an interesting perspective on a hot current trend. On… Read More Geek Reading October 27, 2015
Two very cool stories top our day. First, Reuters reports on the New Horizons getting ever closer to Pluto. There are some really cool pictures coming back and it is really interesting to watch. In other “news”, NPR talks about the revival of Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed. This was one of my favorite strips… Read More Geek Reading July 14, 2015
We have another slow weekend of news today. First, the Army National Guard announced that it had a data breach. This does not sound as bad as the last government breach, but it is still bad. MIT News reports on a program that fixes old code faster than “expert engineers”. The ideas in the project… Read More Geek Reading July 13, 2015
Today we have a good mix of articles. First, we have an interesting bit of social engineering from Graham Cluley and how to get access to an email account based on someone’s mobile number. Next, Pat Kua talks about the role of the tech lead and their circles of responsibility. Lastly, there are three cool… Read More Geek Reading June 22, 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
Security leads the way for today. The next Web reports on Kaspersky and the Dutch police collaborating on a ransomware unlocker. Google’s Project Zero talks about the details of two exploits. Praetorian shows how statistics can help crack your password quicker. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.… Read More Geek Reading April 15, 2015
