On Campuses Far From China, Still Under Beijing’s Watchful Eye
A group for Chinese students has worked in tandem with Beijing to promote a pro-Chinese agenda and tamp down anti-Chinese speech on Western campuses.
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Posted on 2017-05-07T00:31:52+0000
To the Fulbright Class of 2017 – Asim Fayaz – Medium
This talk was delivered on April 29, 2017 in Oakland, California, to the Fulbright Class of 2017 shortly returning to Pakistan. I have…
Game of Thrones makes its stars two-factor their emails now
But their emails
ZeroTier | Connect All The Things
. Network controllers would flicker on and off, and eventually the whole service needed to be restarted across our cluster. 500 errors and timeouts were a thing.
Hasnain says:
Really interesting read on debugging.
"This was no ordinary memory leak. No unbalanced malloc/free or new/delete was this. No circular references with reference counting pointers. No queues not being emptied. No file descriptors being dropped. When we program we assume certain things. We assume that we live in an orderly universe that obeys physical laws.
We assume that the gods are sane."
Seven Reasons the Left Is Losing
Advice and constructive criticism from observers who believe that America would benefit from a healthier opposition to the governing coalition.
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Posted on 2017-05-06T04:30:47+0000
Tavis Ormandy on Twitter
“I think @natashenka and I just discovered the worst Windows remote code exec in recent memory. This is crazy bad. Report on the way. 🔥🔥🔥”
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I wouldn't want to be the person having to respond to this...
as the MSFT .NET security guy responded: "As long as it's not .net. I have concert tickets this weekend."
Posted on 2017-05-06T04:12:29+0000
'Scared for my life': Why are crime victims being jailed? - BBC News
A New Orleans district attorney is under fire for jailing victims of rape, domestic abuse and attempted murder.
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"Mr Mitchell was a victim, not a suspect. His booking sheet showed that he'd been arrested on a material witness warrant - a controversial tool used to detain witnesses and victims who prosecutors fear won't show up to trial."
Apparently you can be arrested and put in jail so that they can be sure you testify in a trial. WTF*
*: I know you can be arrested for violating a subpoena, but this is different: this is pre-emptive.
Posted on 2017-05-06T04:03:01+0000
Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack as documents leaked - BBC News
The French presidential candidate says files have been leaked to damage him ahead of Sunday's vote.
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"The Macron email dump came minutes before France's campaign blackout started at midnight. Candidates can't respond before polls open Sunday"
Whoa, whoever did this is really determined.
Posted on 2017-05-06T03:54:53+0000
Thieves drain 2fa-protected bank accounts by abusing SS7 routing protocol
The same weakness could be used to eavesdrop on calls and track users’ locations.
Language shapes how the brain perceives time | Lancaster University
Language has such a powerful effect, it can influence the way in which we experience time, according to a new study.
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Posted on 2017-05-05T21:47:26+0000