Four Internets
The Four Internets: Open Internet, DC Commercial Internet, Brussels Bourgeois Internet, and Beijing Paternal Internet.
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Street Lamps as a Platform
Street lamps with their unique characteristics can actually enable an economic large-scale deployment of cloudlets, making the breakthrough of practicable edge computing at long last.
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Inside Big Tech’s Quest for Human-level A.I.
Giants like Alphabet and Microsoft are investing heavily to develop technology that could radically reshape the business world. When it arrives is anyone’s guess.
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The ‘Invisible’ Materiality of Information Technology
It’s difficult to see the ecological impact of IT when its benefits are so blindingly bright.
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Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space
This article presents Meltdown, a novel attack that exploits a vulnerability in the way the processor enforces memory isolation.
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Hiring from the Autism Spectrum
There is a “massive talent pool” of [autistic] individuals, many of whom understand patterns and have a proclivity for complex work.
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Kode Vicious Plays in Traffic
There is a wealth of literature on safety-critical systems, much of which points in the same direction: toward simplicity.
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10 Things All Software Engineers Should Know
I am in the interesting position at the moment of managing a team of people writing software who have almost no training or experience in software development. I find two things truly remarkable: first, that any modestly sophisticated working system can be made using code written by people that know almost nothing about software, and second, that smart people, who are motivated, can learn how to do things better pretty quickly.
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5G Is Coming, and It’s Fortified With Fiber
5G will happen in the airy realm of radio waves. To get there, big telecoms have to harness underused parts of the spectrum. But there’s another crucial part underlying this system: lowly cable.
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Beware a New Google Drive Scam Landing in Inboxes
Scammers just found a new phishing lure to play with: Google Drive. A flaw in the Drive is being exploited to send out seemingly legitimate emails and push notifications from Google that, if opened, could land people on malicious websites.
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How Google Is Cramming More Data Into Its New Atlantic Cable
Google says the fiber-optic cable it’s building across the Atlantic Ocean will be the fastest of its kind. When the cable goes live next year, the company estimates it will transmit around 250 terabits per second, fast enough to zap all the contents of the Library of Congress from Virginia to France three times every second.
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How the Internet Travels Across Oceans
The internet consists of tiny bits of code that move around the world, traveling along wires as thin as a strand of hair strung across the ocean floor. The data zips from New York to Sydney, from Hong Kong to London, in the time it takes you to read this word.
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Facebook: The Inside Story
Based on hundreds of interviews inside and outside the company, Levy’s sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company [Facebook] that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
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Light Blue Touchpaper
“Light Blue Touchpaper” is the blog of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and is written by researchers in the Security Group. Read here brief and timely essays on recent developments and topics related to computer security.
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National CyberSecurity Awareness Month – October 2020
October is CyberSecurity Awareness Month, a time to focus on why cybersecurity is important and what we can do to protect our personal and business information.
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Summer Heat 2020
It is now normal for each Summer to in one way or another be hotter than the one prior. As a result there will be remarkable occurrences a few of which I’m cataloguing here.
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Street Art from Mural Fest in South Salt Lake, Utah
Mural Fest celebrates urban beautification and artistic talent using the powerful tool of public art. The visual impact of bold, creative designs embodies the energy of the innovative businesses and creative communities in the Creative Industries Zone.
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California Fires – Late August, 2020
A large number of fires were started by lightning strikes in California over the weekend of August 15-16, 2020. They resulted from a storm system that moved along the coast of California and produced copious amounts of dry lightning through primarily northern California around the greater San Fransisco Bay area. I’m including a number of articles, imagery and videos to document the resulting series of fires and the impact the resulting smoke has had on the upper western United States.
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SANS Security Awareness Work-from-Home Deployment Kit
Everything you need to create a secure work-from-home environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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Attaining The Third Dimension
We picked a hard goal. In our case, it was the replication of reality. And now things look so realistic that I often can’t tell in films, and I have a pretty good eye.”
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