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Business The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
Technology Breakthrough programmable computer made from DNA running chemical software David Pescovitz
privacy Zuckerberg announces a comprehensive plan for a new, privacy-focused Facebook, but fails to mention data sharing and ad targeting Cory Doctorow
News Mozilla's Firefox & Apple's Safari browsers add anti-Facebook and Google privacy protections Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Stealing data from airgapped computers by using power fluctuations as a covert channel Cory Doctorow
happy mutants In 2009 a NJ judge banned hooking up voting machines to the internet, but that's exactly how ES&S's "airgapped" machines work Cory Doctorow
scholarship Critical perspectives on the Singularity from eminent computer scientist Ed Felten Cory Doctorow
security Origin story of the Mimikatz password cracker is a parable about security, disclosure, cyberwar, and crime Cory Doctorow
web theory Scuttlebutt: an "off-grid" P2P social network that runs without servers and can fall back to sneakernet Cory Doctorow
