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Friday 30th March, 2018 #

Thursday 29th March, 2018 #

Monday 26th March, 2018 #

Sunday 25th March, 2018 #

  • Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing
  • Congress passes FOSTA, Craigslist personals vanish - 'Casual encounters' & 'missed connections' gone
  • Russia blows up Soviet-era landmark in World Cup city
  • Will Smith on Fallon
  • Australia-UK - First non-stop flight arrives in London from Perth (17 hours)
  • Meme star "Hide The Pain Harold" takes trip of lifetime to Manchester, England
  • World of Ends - What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else (2003)

Saturday 24th March, 2018 #

Thursday 22nd March, 2018 #

  • Does Putin's Russia reject the West?
  • Michael Jackson is alive, Hillary is boozing, and a Buckingham Palace Sex Ring, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids
  • Sociologists examine hackathons and see exploitation
  • Facebook's casual treatment of consumer privacy is just the outer maw of a mammoth gullet of dysfunction - Your ISP is worse
  • When Putin won in 2012, Russians took to the streets - Why not this time?
  • The evil genius of Cambridge Analytica was to exploit those we trust most
  • The surveillance paradigm - be the friction - our response to the new lords of the ring
  • The Consciousness Deniers
  • HN - Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation

Tuesday 20th March, 2018 #

  • Alternation is the term in regular expression that is actually a simple “OR”
  • BBC rejects complaints over Jeremy Corbyn's 'Russian' hat
  • How Facebook Groups Are Being Exploited To Spread Misinformation, Plan Harassment, And Radicalize People
  • One Way Facebook Can Stop the Next Cambridge Analytica
  • BlackBerry stock jumps after saying it will provide security for Microsoft Office phone apps
  • Revealed - Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians

Monday 19th March, 2018 #

Sunday 18th March, 2018 #

  • Free Beer - An open source beer created in 2004 by students at the IT University in Copenhagen
  • Mac: Accessibility - what permissions are granted for “allow the apps below to control your computer”?
  • Newspaper headlines - 'Blackout threat' as UK 'stands up' to Putin
  • GB Paralympic gold - Menna Fitzpatrick and Jen Kehoe win Winter Paralympic slalom gold
  • Mayotte unrest - French island residents round up 'foreigners'
  • log4js-node - a port of log4js to node.js
  • npmlog - the logger that npm uses
  • Don't ask wikipedia to cure the internet
  • Secret leakage through URLs
  • Winter Paralympics - GB pairs second and third at slalom halfway point

Saturday 17th March, 2018 #

Thursday 15th March, 2018 #

Wednesday 14th March, 2018 #

  • The Clash - London Calling (1979) [FULL ALBUM]
  • Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising
  • Russian boffins blow up teeny asteroids with tiny laser... to work out how to nuke the real thing
  • Stanford brainiacs say they can predict Reddit raids
  • White working class girls traded for sex, says Telford MP
  • Newspaper headlines - Sanctions and 'chilling warning'
  • MongoDB - aggregate $project add field with static value
  • I Think About This a Lot - Kanye West at the Katrina Telethon
  • Firefox 59 arrives with faster page load times, better private browsing, and Android Assist
  • Researchers say they've found 13 flaws in AMD's Ryzen and EPYC chips, which could let attackers install malware on highly guarded parts of the processor

Tuesday 13th March, 2018 #

  • Making WOOD GLASS
  • Watch This In-Depth History Of The World Speedrun Record Progression For 'Metroid'
  • An Illustrator Turns Kids' Ideas About Feminism Into Wonderful Drawings
  • The web is under threat - Join us and fight for it
  • Pretty fascinating behind the scenes look at Reddit’s Ministry of Free Speech & Censorship, Cooperation & Conspiracy
  • Synode: understanding and automatically preventing injection attacks on Node.js
  • Trump Blocks Broadcom Takeover of Qualcomm on Security Risks

Monday 12th March, 2018 #

Sunday 11th March, 2018 #

Thursday 8th March, 2018 #

  • Amazon echoes are laughing spontaneously and it's freaking people out
  • Florida legislature backs new gun restrictions after Parkland school shooting
  • Watch This Machine Solve A Rubik's Cube In 0.38 Seconds
  • Fontanello - browser extension that lets you display the basic typographic styles of a text by right-clicking it
  • We Write CSS Like We Did in the 90s, and Yes, It’s Silly
  • Accessibility for developers - building a frontend that everyone can use
  • Front-end case studies - curated list of technical talks and articles about real-world enterprise frontend development
  • Tendon.io - accessibility testing tool with an API

Wednesday 7th March, 2018 #

Tuesday 6th March, 2018 #

Monday 5th March, 2018 #

Saturday 3rd March, 2018 #