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Monday 18th February, 2019 #

  • I Think I’ve Identified Email’s Fundamental Flaw - A short exploration of emails features, highlighting the subtleties of software design
  • Incredible free museums around the world
  • Brexit news latest - Nigel Farage claims 100,000 people have signed up to new Brexit Party
  • How the US has hidden its empire - This is a really great piece of journalism, well written and informative, looks at an aspect of the modern USA that is not talked about, I knew there were a lot of US military bases, I had no idea the USA had so many foreign territories - It makes sense, with so many foreign nationals living in the US they are going to want to have a presence in other territories themselves
  • UK says Huawei is manageable risk to 5G - Huawei are turning the situation into a feature which illustrates that they are missing the point of the concern - “Some say that because these countries are using Huawei gear, it makes it harder for US agencies to obtain these countries’ data”
  • UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook - “Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like ‘digital gangsters’ in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law”