Tuesday 22nd October, 2019 #
- Assange in Court - I didn’t get through all the legal details of this article but it would seem that Assange is visibly in very ill health, big loss of body weight and struggling to answer basic questions, and might be being badly treated in custody (in the UK), his trial is being rail-roaded and there are questions as to how the court is handling the situation
- Web platform podcast - Off the Main Thread - this edition of the podcast discusses web workers, lots of interesting new possibilities and architectures, I hadn’t realised how much of a different model of client applications it enables, pretty exciting stuff - I worry though about all the bad things it could enable too, what will it mean for privacy surveillance and lock-in, will it be possible for to turn off web workers if necessary, will we all individually have enough permission to do that, will the applications still work without them when the ai apocalypse happens?
- NASA Needs New Strategies to Protect the Solar System From Earthly Contamination
- SpaceX submits paperwork for 30,000 more Starlink satellites, if all planned satellites get launched they will be responsible for about a fivefold increase in the number of spacecraft launched by humanity
- Microsoft announces Secured-core PCs to counter firmware attacks