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Wednesday 28th November, 2018 #

  • Details about the event-stream incident
  • Amazon Web Services launches AWS Ground Station, a cloud service for satellite operators
  • Dropping Acid - Describes an interesting and relatively rarely occurring moment in culture, when there is a radical inflection point, in this case the 1980s, musicians in Chicago built a new genre out of obsolete machinery - Listeners lost their minds
  • Incredible picture of May looking like an owl/eagle/dracula while with Trump - as for the news article it actually has some good Brexit analysis - the 21 month trade purgatory sounds a bit shit if you ask me
  • Auschwitz Photographs Hidden from the Nazis Are Given New Life in Color
  • The Future of Robots Won’t Be Like ‘The Terminator’ - It’ll Probably Be Worse
  • South Koreans lock themselves up to escape prison of daily life - “This prison gives me a sense of freedom” (At what point do we stop and say ok there is something seriously wrong with the world?)
  • Google employees join together with Amnesty International to oppose Chinese censorship and surveillance - "We are Google employees. Google must drop Dragonfly."
  • Hacker backdoors popular JavaScript library to steal Bitcoin funds
  • The Fake News Inquiry Chair Says He's Seen Evidence A Facebook Engineer Flagged Russian "Entities" Pulling Data In 2014
  • Climate change - CO2 emissions rising for first time in four years