Another day and another security issue. Malwarebytes talks about their anti-malware vulnerability disclosure. This is good from the perspective of openness, but it is always concerning when they talk about it. Johanna Rothman turns burndown charts upside down, and shows us burnup charts. This is an interesting idea on how to report on progress in agile… Read More Geek Reading February 3, 2016 #1034
Starting our week, we have an article from the Smithsonian about Babylonians using geometry centuries earlier than previously thought. This is just a cool tidbit that you don’t run across every day. In the “another day another security problem” category, fin1te explains the findings of an XSS bug on Facebook. Google announced the open source… Read More Geek Reading February 1, 2016
Starting our week, we have Sam Altman ranting against the growth at all costs pattern in startups. His take is that finding the right type of growth is more important, mostly with product-market fit. On KD Nuggets we get a discussion on the differences between machine intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Lastly,… Read More Geek Reading January 18, 2016
Leading the day is a post on ReadThink by the HubSpot CEO. It is an excellent look at how to manage things when dealing with the switch between pure startup and scaling a business. Tom Blomfield gives us a slightly humorous look at when to join a startup. Its’ target may be humor but there… Read More Geek Reading January 15, 2016
We have a much shorter list of articles today as many people start taking time off for the holiday season. Over the next week, my posts may be inconsistent as well. The holidays always make for a lighter batch of articles, and the holidays also mean less time for me at the computer. On your… Read More Geek Reading December 24, 2015
Wired leads the day with their story on who they think the creator of Bitcoin is. We will see if this path is true. The rest of our news is dominated by the CMS world. WordPress released v4.4, codenamed “Clifford”. WordPress also released an app for Windows. A group of Microsoft developers have saved Windows… Read More Geek Reading December 10, 2015
VentureBeat leads the day with reporting on Pandora purchasing some of the assets of Rdio. This is interesting because it could mean that on-demand streaming is coming to Pandora, or at least we can hope. Docker made a bunch of announcements at DockerCon EU, and today we have a post on Integrated Content Trust and… Read More Geek Reading November 18, 2015
Not a lot of news over the weekend, but there were a lot of good reads. Krebs on Security talks about a new card breach at Hilton Hotel properties. This one is still in the analysis phase, so we will probably hear more about this later. Mozilla gives us their version of a healthy and… Read More Geek Reading September 28, 2015
Today we lead off with the start of a fascinating story on Krebs on Security, where he details his tracking of a skimmer gang in Mexico. On Application Security, they give us an example of CSRF against search in Lucene. Flowing Data shows us the new “exploration” features of Google Sheets. This is actually quite interesting for… Read More Geek Reading September 15, 2015
By now you have heard that Google is now a subsidiary of Alphabet. If you have not heard this yet, you clearly have been disconnected from all forms of media. This news has been covered, re-covered, analyzed and re-analyzed several times over. In other news, Google research talks about how they have improved transcription in… Read More Geek Reading August 12, 2015
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