A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After a surprise discovery, astrophysicists are racing to understand superenergetic flashes of radio waves that sometimes beep out from distant galaxies.
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"“It’s like making a movie of the sky at 200 frames per second,” said Chatterjee, who is one of the collaboration’s leaders. “And we made this movie over 10 hours and we saw absolutely nothing.”"
Posted on 2018-03-24T20:40:26+0000
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.
Breaking the Ledger Security Model
In this post, I’m going to discuss a vulnerability I discovered in Ledger hardware wallets. The vulnerability arose due to Ledger’s use of a custom architecture to work around many of the limitations of their Secure Element.
luxe engine | A lovingly hand crafted game engine
luxe is a free, cross platform, open source, rapid development game engine to make games for Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android and Web & more**consoles wip but too early to discuss.
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Bookmarking for future learning. The programming language, Wren, looks great too
Posted on 2018-03-19T07:31:26+0000
Tech Leavers
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Haven't fully dug into the data yet.
"The Tech Leavers Study is a first-of-its-kind national study examining why people voluntarily left their jobs in tech. The Kapor Center for Social Impact and Harris Poll surveyed a representative sample of more than 2,000 U.S. adults who have left a job in a technology-related industry or function within the last three years.
What did we learn?
Workplace culture drives turnover, significantly affecting the retention of underrepresented groups, and costing the industry more than $16 billion each year."
Posted on 2018-03-17T00:09:03+0000
China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains
China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year.
Everything Surrounding These New AMD Security Allegations Reeks of a Hit Job - ExtremeTech
AMD may have a serious security problem on its hands, but the disclosure of these issues was problematic, to say the least.
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Posted on 2018-03-14T07:14:17+0000
Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76
A physicist and best-selling author, Dr. Hawking did not allow his physical limitations to hinder his quest to answer “the big question: Where did the universe come from?”
Obama in Talks to Provide Shows for Netflix
Former President Barack Obama does not intend to use the shows to respond to President Trump or conservative critics. He and Michelle Obama have talked about shows that highlight inspirational stories.
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Posted on 2018-03-13T03:40:40+0000
A Career Cold Start Algorithm
Starting a new job can be stressful so I've developed an algorithm that has helped me get up to speed quickly.
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This was a great read for experienced folks starting in a new role/company
Posted on 2018-03-09T19:00:02+0000