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
Google leads the day with the announcement from their cultural institute about 1000 museums at your fingertips. The coolest part is that you can zoom into the images so far that you can see the brushstrokes. ThreatPost reports on a serious Linux kernel vulnerability and its patch. High Scalability has an interesting post on scaling… Read More Geek Reading January 22, 2016
VentureBeat had several good articles yesterday. First, they reported on Yahoo planning to lay off more than 1000 employees, which equates to about 10% of the company. That is a fairly big number but it makes sense as they continue to try to streamline their business. Amazon is now selling its own brand of ARM… Read More Geek Reading January 8, 2016
Some interesting news to start our day. Twitter finally seems to be moving to longer messages, possibly as big as 10k. Oracle acquired AddThis for $200M. This is interesting because it really feels outside of what Oracle has purchased in the past. Flowing Data has an excellent visualization on the cause of death over various… Read More Geek Reading January 6, 2016
Now that vacation is over, it is time to get back to the daily links. First, we have Rands in Repose talking about employees leaving when they are happy. In particular, the focus is on when the employee let’s his “shields down” and goes for coffee or lunch with someone. Paul Graham has an interesting… Read More Geek Reading January 4, 2016
We start our day with VentureBeat reporting on a new CDN available from Google. It is not huge news, but it is an interesting development for people building out scalable sites. Alvaro Videla has an excellent post on what people talk about when they are talking about distributed systems. Distributed systems are generally, highly complex… Read More Geek Reading December 11, 2015
Amazon leads the day with their move to bundle Showtime and Starz with Amazon Prime. Prime is slowly becoming a must-have option. Mozilla releases Focus for Firefox, their content blocking option for the open web. Job Tips For Geeks shows us some trends in the recruiting space based on various languages. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading December 9, 2015
Late last week, there were two comics that were just perfect. First, XKCD gives their explanation of Git. If you are just starting with Git, it will sound all too familiar. The second comic is Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller, where it shows “Youth Revival Therapy”. I included this mainly because I know a bunch… Read More Geek Reading November 2, 2015
Seth Godin starts our day with a post on the power of fear. As usual, it is an excellent post that you should read. KD Nuggets gives us some information on the best advice from Quora on “How to learn machine learning”. It is a solid summary of the Quora discussion with a bunch of… Read More Geek Reading October 19, 2015
Another acquisition leads the day as TechCrunch reports on Google’s acquisition of Divshot. Benedict Evans gives us an interesting post on how the browser wars were much different than today where mobile is not a neutral platform. If you are looking for some new talent and you know people from Twitter, TechCrunch reports on the… Read More Geek Reading October 14, 2015
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