Ars Technica
500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
2 min · · The Bannatyne Manuscript is an anthology of some 400 medieval Scottish poems. · Shared by 68, including Esther Schindler, Chris Isak, Clive Thompson, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, maggiefox 🇺🇦, Jennifer Ouellette
XKCD Comic
RIP John Conway
· This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details. · Shared by 271, including Pixel, Steve Silberman, Paolo Attivissimo @ildisinformatico@mastodon.uno, Massimo Pigliucci, Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛, Thomas Fuchs , zach lieberman, Maarten Lambrechts @maarten@vis.social, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, Tim Harford, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Logical Analysis, Christopher D. Long, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Nils Hitze, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, shishir das
ZDNET
Russian telco hijacks internet traffic for Google, AWS, Cloudflare, and others
3 min · · Rostelecom involved in two BGP hijacking incidents this week impacting more than 200 CDNs and cloud providers. · Shared by 113, including R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Mark Kaigwa, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, William Toll, Oliver Raduner
node.js
“GET READY: A NEW V8 IS COMING, NODE.JS PERFORMANCE IS CHANGING.”
· Shared by 19, including Yoav Ganbar (🥑 Builder.io/Qwik), Ⓓarío Macchi, Angel Romero
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
Do You Know How to Fail Fast With Your Next Idea?
9 min · · I am sharing all the knowledge I gathered during my research in four months of testing different business ideas. Before starting investing lots of time and building an MVP (minimum viable product) you… · Shared by 67, including Thomas Power
freeCodeCamp.org
Creating a Production-Ready Webpack 4 Config From Scratch
18+ min · · Typically, webpack is configured when a project is first set up, and small tweaks are then made to the config files as needed from time to time. Because of this, many developers don’t have a lot of… · Shared by 46, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Philipp Laurim, Luca Corsilli, Davy De Pauw
WIRED
Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign Is Making Its Software Open Source
2 min · · The team developed its own software to coordinate volunteers and synthesize voter data. Now, it’s posting the code to GitHub. · Shared by 30, including Matthias Lampe, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Backchannel
ZDNET
A hacker has wiped, defaced more than 15,000 Elasticsearch servers
3 min · · Hacker tries to pin the blame on Night Lion Securty, a US cyber-security firm. · Shared by 47, including William Toll
WIRED
Clever Crypto Could Protect Privacy in Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Apps
4 min · · Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance. · Shared by 98, including John Koetsier, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Backchannel, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Power
jacques.nreality.com
Essential software engineering reading list
· Here is a list of classic articles and books that have informed my thinking on software engineering. · Shared by 477, including Florian Hanke 🍎, Paddy Zab, Emerson Macedo, Courtney Bolton ★, Alberto, Luzius Meisser, Dominik Grolimund, Kartik Subramanian #BlackLivesMatter, Daniel Williams, Philipp Laurim, Stephen C Sanders, Matthias Lampe, Marco Unternaehrer, René Clausen Nielsen, Jacob Jarnvall, Nils Hitze, Jon Thompson, Vikram Dutt, Kenneth Kalmer, Shinmen Musashi
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
Serverless Can Do That?!
9 min · · Time is crucial in startups. We are experiencing a constant race against time. Your market might be time sensitive, and you need to grow fast. Most startups fail because they run out of cash and time.… · Shared by 102, including Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Brian Rinaldi, Hans Bickhofe
VICE
Zoom is Leaking Peoples' Email Addresses and Photos to Strangers
3 min · · For at least a few thousand people, Zoom has treated their personal email addresses as if they all belong to the same company, letting them video call each other. · Shared by 97, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Audrey Watters, Undark Magazine, Johannes Lenz, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe
TidBITS
Every Zoom Security and Privacy Flaw So Far, and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
· The videoconferencing service Zoom has seen a 20-fold increase in usage during the coronavirus pandemic. That extra attention has put a spotlight on poor technical and policy decisions that have exposed Zoom’s users to harm and revealed personal data unnecessarily. But hope blooms with the company’s latest comprehensive apology and roadmap. · Shared by 48, including Fern, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Korben, Marc R Gagné MAPP, DHH, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe
Ars Technica
Attackers can use Zoom to steal users’ Windows credentials with no warning
4 min · · Zoom for Windows converts network locations into clickable links. What could go wrong? · Shared by 68, including Christopher Sikkenga, Niklaus Gerber, Troy Hunt, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
nature
Rare ozone hole opens over Arctic — and it’s big
3 min · · Cold temperatures and a strong polar vortex allowed chemicals to gnaw away at the protective ozone layer in the north. · Shared by 180, including Roger Highfield, Anita Leirfall, Mark Brandon
Quartz
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a 1960s time capsule
3 min · · Shared by 334, including rogerverhoeven, John Koetsier, Matthias Sala, Chris Messina, Nils Hitze, Matthias Lampe, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Florian Hanke 🍎, Inês Silva, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Channing Walton, Thomas Power, Carlos Granier, Richard Joerges, Ryan Boren, hiten.eth, WPMU DEV, adrianleb.eth, Stuart Chalmers, Sameer Patel