How a Humble Pineapple Became Art
A prank by two students at a university in Scotland has started a conversation about what makes for a creative work.
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Posted on 2018-07-21T15:56:15+0000
Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google production network | OpnSec
Intro - Testing Google Sites and Google Caja In March 2018, I reported an XSS in Google Caja, a tool to securely embed arbitrary html/javascript in a webpage. In May 2018, after the XSS was fixed, I realised that Google Sites was using an unpatched version of Google Caja, so I looked if it was vulne...
Europe fines Google $5 billion for abusing its Android dominance
Google was ordered by the European Commission to pay €4.34 billion ($5 billion) for unfairly pushing its apps on smartphone users and thwarting competitors.
Cave diver criticizes Musk's kid-sub rescue plan. Musk suggests he's a pedophile
The Elon Musk story took a bizarre turn Sunday morning, as the world famous entrepreneur took to Twitter to suggest a critic of his submarine rescue plan is a pedophile.
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Posted on 2018-07-16T05:28:47+0000
Dear people of Pakistan, our politicians may be corrupt looters, but you’re far worse
Not only are we getting to witness the true face of our politicians, but the general populace as well – and...
Hasnain says:
"The politicians of your country and the people you elect are reflective of the larger public – after all, the corrupt and greedy politicians we despise so much are all coming from within our own people. If anything, the vile and vulgar comments we see on social media day in and day out make it evident that our people are as bad as our politicians.After all, we can only blame politicians for so much; overtime, we’ve transformed precisely into the politicians we love to hate so much. "
Posted on 2018-07-15T21:23:45+0000
The hotel bathroom puzzle
In his wonderful book The Evolution of Useful Things, the author and civil engineer Henry Petroski shares one of the most famous case studies in the history of design: Before it was destroyed by fi…
Hasnain says:
“It’s a lovely solution—so much so, in fact, that Caplan’s book puts it into its own subtitle: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV. And at the heart of the answer lies a subtle change in the way the problem is understood. Other measures, like putting up a sign, focused on the idea that both doors had to have locks, when the lock is really just an interim solution to the underlying problem, rather than the problem itself. As Petroski puts it: “The basic design objective is to achieve privacy for whoever might be using the bathroom.” And once the problem is phrased in such a way as to leave locks out of the equation entirely, you’re that much closer to figuring out how to address it.”
Posted on 2018-07-15T04:19:15+0000
The inconvenient truth about cancer and mobile phones
We dismiss claims about mobiles being bad for our health – but is that because studies showing a link to cancer have been cast into doubt by the industry?
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Posted on 2018-07-15T04:01:07+0000
Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich
Young Norwegians have enjoyed a 13% rise in disposable household income, bucking a downward trend in other strong economies. Will this golden age last?
Hasnain says:
“At the OECD, Sebastian Königs cites much closer links between education, employment and social services than in most other countries as an effective way of supporting young people in the early stages of their careers. Every Norwegian school leaver gets a personal follow-up phone call to discuss their options if they don’t enter the employment market or pursue further studies, for example.”
Posted on 2018-07-14T17:05:02+0000
XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables
Distributing large pieces of software to thousands of machines with a wide variety of configurations can pose a significant operational challenge, requiring a process to identify and copy precisely…
donnemartin/system-design-primer
system-design-primer - Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.
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Posted on 2018-07-13T07:08:56+0000