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feeds | grep links > FBI’s Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit, Flying Cellphone Transmitters, A Photonic C-NOT Gate, and More

Thomas Gideon — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:24:18 +0000

feeds | grep links > White House’ Push for Federal Online 311, Return of the Vacuum Tube, NY to Ban Anonymous Speech Online, and More

Thomas Gideon — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:09:49 +0000

feeds | grep links > Latest on Comcast’s Prioritization of Xfinity TV, Microsoft’s Foray into Social Networks, A Modern Replacement for the Linux Print Spooler, and More

Thomas Gideon — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:47:05 +0000

Following Up for the Week Ending 5/20/2012

Thomas Gideon — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:57:07 +0000

Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 5/20/2012

Thomas Gideon — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:56:30 +0000

Following Up for the Week Ending 5/13/2012

Thomas Gideon — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:18:39 +0000

Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 5/13/2012

Thomas Gideon — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:18:09 +0000

feeds | grep links > Simple Privacy Icons, Meta-analysis of File Sharing Studies, Twitter Fights Subpoenaes of OWS Info, and More

Thomas Gideon — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:28:32 +0000

feeds | grep links > 3D Printed Circuit Boards, Magnetic Bacteria Building Bio-computers, National Experiment in Digital Currency, and More

Thomas Gideon — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:57:00 +0000

Following Up for the Week Ending 5/7/2012

Thomas Gideon — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:11:09 +0000

Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 5/6/2012

Thomas Gideon — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:10:39 +0000

feeds | grep links > DuckDuckGo CrowdSources Plugins, History of Key Design, Judge Rules IP Address is Not a Person, and More

Thomas Gideon — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:21:51 +0000

feeds | grep links > Stock Exchange for Personal Data, 3D Printed Electromechanical Computer, Intel Response to Raspberry Pi, and More

Thomas Gideon — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:47:01 +0000

A Stock Exchange for Your Personal Data
Technology Review describes what I think superficially is an intriguing idea, of enabling truster operators, brokers, to help those more or less concerned about privacy negotiate prices for their data appropriate to their respective stances. The problem is I don’t think it takes into account longitudinal affects, that is how data may get shared and re-shared well beyond the initial point of exchange. I am concerned at trying to solve issues around controlling data using a market mechanism, especially given how easily a lot of seemingly rational models in the lab are entirely overturned by actual behavior in the real world.
3D Printed Electromechanical Computer
There is something immensely delightful about the use of bleeding edge home 3D printing that MAKE points out in its use to resurrect an earlier form of computing. Since we don’t yet have personal scale printers that can printer mixed materials with the sophistication of electronic circuitry, this can also be thought of as a clever hack, to still produce an object capable of at least rudimentary computation.
Intel bakes palm-sized Core i5 NUC to rival Raspberry Pi • The Register
While the Intel Next Unit of Computing detailed in this article on The Register isn’t directly comparable to the Pi in either its form factor or intended market, I do think it is a pretty strong signal that the Pi is yet another category creating innovation, like the OLPC for netbooks and the iPhone for the modern smart phone. I am excited to see what competition for this new class of computer does in terms of enabling more widespread, accessible and bottom up innovation.
Event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the mysterious Voynich manuscript, Boing Boing
Mozilla Opens Doors on New $3 Million Data Center, Wired Enterprise at Wired.com
Study explains how retailers stop Linux from entering the market, The H Open Source: News and Features

feeds | grep links > EFF’s Hacker Mailing List, An 8-Bit Computer from Scratch, Dan Bull’s Free Single Climbs Music Charts, and More

Thomas Gideon — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:19:04 +0000

Following Up for the Week Ending 4/29/2012

Thomas Gideon — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:32:39 +0000

Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 4/29/2012

Thomas Gideon — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:30:19 +0000

feeds | grep links > Plans for Next Ubuntu, A Look Back to 1980s Computing, C and C++ Possibly Resurging in Popularity, and More

Thomas Gideon — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:14:48 +0000

feeds | grep links > User Owned Social Network, Sinclair ZX Spectrum Turns 30, the Rewards of Simple Code, and More

Thomas Gideon — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:05:59 +0000

Following Up for the Week Ending 4/22/2012

Thomas Gideon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:03:56 +0000

Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 4/22/2012

Thomas Gideon — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:03:18 +0000

feeds | grep links > Mechanical CPU clock, Twitter’s Stand Against Patent Trolling, Pledgefunding a New Libre Animated Film, and More

Thomas Gideon — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:26:28 +0000

Following Up for the Week Ending 4/15/2012

Thomas Gideon — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:46:59 +0000

Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 4/15/2012

Thomas Gideon — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:18:28 +0000

feeds | grep links > Why CISPA is Bad, Open Gaming Contest Announced, Privacy Protecting ISP Planned, and More

Thomas Gideon — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:29:15 +0000

feeds | grep links > Remember Commodore’s Founder on His Passing, Super Charged Neural Networks, The Latest Cream from the demoscene, and More

Thomas Gideon — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Jack Tramiel Remembered: The Legacy of the Commodore Founder and PC Pioneer
Scott M. Fulton, III writing for ReadWriteWeb was the first in my feeds I saw to report the passing of personal computing pioneer and founder of Commodore, Jack Tramiel. Despite the sad occasion for it, Fulton shares an accessible and surprisngly in depth history of the computer, the business and the man. Well worth the read for geeks of a certain age, such as myself, or to share with a generation that will really only ever know these systems via emulation and what is rapidly transforming more into folklore than history.
Computer scientist leads the way to the next revolution in artificial intelligence
Science Daily has a pretty clear description of some surprising research from computer scientist Hava Siegelmann of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The theoretical work in question dates back from 1993, the subsequent effort under way now is attempting to implement this “Super-Turing” computation into practical form. I can’t tell if this is an incremental or revolutionary leap forward but it seems to be part of the trajectory of artificial neural networks, one of the more promising sub-disciplines of machine intelligence. The article includes a fine and important distinction, that the machine in question trades off the sort of brute, mechanical calculation for which we rely on classical Turing machines in its quest to produce a more general reasoning intelligence that could have a wide variety of complementary applications.
Demoscene: 64k Intros At Revision Demoparty
Slashdot reminds us that the hackerly pastime of bumming code, of squeezing as much effect out of as little code as possible is very much alive despite the ever increasing capacities for computation invading ever widget around us. They point to a recent event from the demo scene that also embodies a certain ethos of constrained creativity, producing noteworthy examples that astonish despite coming in under 64kb in compiled form.
World Bank stakes leadership position by announcing Open Access Policy and launching Open Knowledge Repository under Creative Commons, Creative Commons
Copper-Graphene Nanocomposite Cools Electronics Faster & Cheaper, Slashdot
CISPA is SOPA 2.0: petition to stop it, Boing Boing

Following Up for the Week Ending 4/8/2012

Thomas Gideon — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:28:03 +0000

Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 4/8/2012

Thomas Gideon — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:27:25 +0000

feeds | grep links > Game that Simulates Rolling a Linux Distro, Privacy Preserving Hack on Social Networks, New Game from Minecraft Creator, and More

Thomas Gideon — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:36:02 +0000

feeds | grep links > Mozilla Working on WebRTC, Tor Disguised as Skype, Open source Electronic Building Blocks, and More

Thomas Gideon — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:35:26 +0000

Following Up for the Week Ending 4/1/2012

Thomas Gideon — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:35:20 +0000