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October 21, 2018

A look at traditional auto makers' attempts to reimagine themselves as software and service companies, in order to fend off rivals like Uber and Waymo (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A look at traditional auto makers’ attempts to reimagine themselves as software and service companies, in order to fend off rivals like Uber and Waymo — As IPO proposals value Uber at an eye-popping $120 billion, auto makers are racing to gain ground in everything from car sharing to driverless technology. A

You’ll Flip for This 7404 IC Motherboard Fix

We often lament that the days of repairable electronics are long gone. It used to be you’d get schematics for a piece of gear, and you could just as easily crack it open and fix something as the local repairman — assuming you had the knowledge and tools. But today, everything is built to be

October 21, 2018

How political data firms continue to vacuum up psychological and personal data on people in order to sway voters, even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Sue Halpern/New Republic)

Sue Halpern / New Republic: How political data firms continue to vacuum up psychological and personal data on people in order to sway voters, even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — In April, when the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Washington … How political data firms continue to vacuum

Twitter employee may have spied on users for Saudis, says report – CNET

Intelligence officials alerted the social network in 2015, and it fired the worker, reports The New York Times. Twitter employee may have spied on users for Saudis, says report – CNET Source: CNet

October 20, 2018

Interview with YC partner Paul Buchheit about how he got started with programming, joining Google and creating Gmail, becoming a great engineer, and more (Triplebyte Blog)

Triplebyte Blog: Interview with YC partner Paul Buchheit about how he got started with programming, joining Google and creating Gmail, becoming a great engineer, and more — On Becoming a Programmer … One moment I remember really getting into programming came while playing a fantasy RPG video game. Interview with YC partner Paul Buchheit about

Elegant Drum Machine from Teensy

Playing the drums is pretty hard, especially for the uncoordinated. Doing four things at the same time, all while keeping an even tempo, isn’t reasonable for most of us. Rather than hiring a drummer for your band who is well versed in this art, though, you might opt instead to outsource this job to a

October 20, 2018

Joshua Schachter on inventing tags for bookmarks, selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo in 2005, and Yahoo's mismanagement of the service before its 2017 shutdown (Jake Swearingen/New York Magazine)

Jake Swearingen / New York Magazine: Joshua Schachter on inventing tags for bookmarks, selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo in 2005, and Yahoo’s mismanagement of the service before its 2017 shutdown — As told to , Jake Swearingen @JakeSwearingen — Joshua Schachter’s groundbreaking social-bookmarking site Del.icio.us, founded in 2003 … Joshua Schachter on inventing tags for bookmarks,

October 20, 2018

Many of the economists who testified at FTC hearings this week and dismissed or criticized the idea of tech monopolies, received money from big tech in the past (Fast Company)

Fast Company: Many of the economists who testified at FTC hearings this week and dismissed or criticized the idea of tech monopolies, received money from big tech in the past — Amid growing concern over the power of such behemoths as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and other tech giants … Many of the economists who testified

IoT Traffic Light Is Cardboard Made Fun

Traffic lights! Kids love them, hackers love them, and they’re useful in industrial contexts to see if the giant machine is currently working or having a bad day. While the real deal are unwieldy and hard to come by, there’s nothing stopping you tackling a fun cardboard build at home. It’s a great way to

Class-action lawsuit accuses e-scooter companies of ‘gross negligence’

Two of the country’s largest e-scooter companies have been accused of gross negligence and a series of assaults stemming from hit-and-run incidents involving pedestrians, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Class-action lawsuit accuses e-scooter companies of ‘gross negligence’ Source: Washington Post Tech

October 20, 2018

Researcher discovers and helps patch 13 vulnerabilities in open source IoT OS FreeRTOS and Amazon's AWS secure connectivity modules using the OS (Lindsey O'Donnell/Threatpost)

Lindsey O’Donnell / Threatpost: Researcher discovers and helps patch 13 vulnerabilities in open source IoT OS FreeRTOS and Amazon’s AWS secure connectivity modules using the OS — Researchers have found that a popular Internet of Things real-time operating system – FreeRTOS – is riddled with serious vulnerabilities. Researcher discovers and helps patch 13 vulnerabilities in

October 20, 2018

A look at apps like Cruz Crew, N.R.A. and Great America that offer conservatives safe spaces free from the content guidelines of big platforms like Facebook (New York Times)

New York Times: A look at apps like Cruz Crew, N.R.A. and Great America that offer conservatives safe spaces free from the content guidelines of big platforms like Facebook — Imagine a society in which everyone more or less agrees with you. — You wake up in the morning to online greetings from people …

October 20, 2018

Review of Intel 9th Gen CPUs: best gaming CPUs if money is no object, but for tasks where GPU is the bottleneck, older Intel or AMD chips are a wiser choice (Ian Cutress/AnandTech)

Ian Cutress / AnandTech: Review of Intel 9th Gen CPUs: best gaming CPUs if money is no object, but for tasks where GPU is the bottleneck, older Intel or AMD chips are a wiser choice — Intel’s newest line of desktop processors bring with them a number of changes designed to sway favor with performance

Can You Build An Open Source Pocket Operator?

Toys are now musical instruments. Or we’ll just say musical instruments are now toys. You can probably ascribe this recent phenomenon to Frooty Loops or whatever software the kids are using these days, but the truth is that it’s never been easier to lay down a beat. Just press the buttons on a pocket-sized computer.

Mixing John Lennon's Imagine: We meet engineer Rob Stevens – CNET

It’s a dream job for an engineer. Rob Stevens tells us how he brings out the best in John Lennon’s solo work. Mixing John Lennon's Imagine: We meet engineer Rob Stevens – CNET Source: CNet

October 20, 2018

Interview with Brian Amerige, the former Facebook employee whose memo accusing the company of being a political monoculture led to fierce internal debate (Issie Lapowsky/Wired)

Issie Lapowsky / Wired: Interview with Brian Amerige, the former Facebook employee whose memo accusing the company of being a political monoculture led to fierce internal debate — AT ONE POINT this summer, Brian Amerige seemed destined to become the next James Damore. — Like Damore, the Google engineer who wrote … Interview with Brian

October 20, 2018

SEC filing: Microsoft now includes LinkedIn performance metrics, like the number of active users, in calculating stock awards to four top execs, including CEO (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: SEC filing: Microsoft now includes LinkedIn performance metrics, like the number of active users, in calculating stock awards to four top execs, including CEO — – Microsoft paid $27 billion for LinkedIn in 2016 and is now tying its performance to executive pay. SEC filing: Microsoft now includes LinkedIn performance metrics,

The Crystal (Testing) Method

It used to be any good electronics experimenter had a bag full of crystals because you never knew what frequency you might need. These days, you are likely to have far fewer because you usually just need one reference frequency and derive all the other frequencies from it. But how can you test a crystal?

October 20, 2018

Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings — Each morning, Jamal Khashoggi would check his phone to discover what fresh hell had been unleashed while he was sleeping. Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to

October 20, 2018

Why CEOs that say ‘no’ are good for growth

It’s no surprise that life as a startup CEO can be brutally exhausting, with long, grueling workweeks, constant stress, and next to no sleep. And, forget having a personal life, right? In fact, many assume that tackling the role requires a certain amount of neurosis and perhaps just a tad of masochism. Pouring your heart

October 20, 2018

UK parliament report: an unknown firm spent an estimated £250K+ in the past 10 months on Facebook ads pushing for a hard Brexit and reaching 10M to 11M people (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

Adam Satariano / New York Times: UK parliament report: an unknown firm spent an estimated £250K+ in the past 10 months on Facebook ads pushing for a hard Brexit and reaching 10M to 11M people — LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May has struggled to build support for her plan for Britain’s exit from the

October 20, 2018

Real-time data analytics startup Incorta raises $15M Series B extension led by Microsoft's VC arm M12 and Telstra Ventures, closing the round at $30M (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Real-time data analytics startup Incorta raises $15M Series B extension led by Microsoft’s VC arm M12 and Telstra Ventures, closing the round at $30M — Data analytics software startup Incorta has raised $15 million in a series B extension round of funding from Microsoft’s venture capital … Real-time data analytics startup

I2C Bootloader for ATtiny85 Lets Other Micros Push Firmware Updates

There are a few different ways of getting firmware onto one of AVR’s ATtiny85 microcontrollers, including bootloaders that allow for firmware to be updated without the need to plug the chip into a programmer. However, [casanovg] wasn’t satisfied with those so he sent us a tip letting us know he wrote an I2C bootloader for the

This $33 Bluetooth speaker sounds better than it has any right to – CNET

Incredibly enough, the Audiophiliac is smitten with the Tribit XSound Go Bluetooth speaker! This Bluetooth speaker sounds better than it has any right to – CNET Source: CNet

iPhone XR early presale demand and the next Apple event is Oct. 30th – CNET

Which iPhone XR models are showing shipment delays and what we’re expecting at Apple’s next launch event. Catch up on all your iPhone news for the week. iPhone XR early presale demand and the next Apple event is Oct. 30th – CNET Source: CNet

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