Life as a “Ledger” Wallet Data Breach Victim
I have had two Ledger Nano X* cryptocurrency wallets for a couple of years now. One of them died during a firmware update which they offered to replace but I didn’t print the label and send it in time. That’s on me and if that was the only problem I had I could have lived […]
History of Flow vs. Asana
This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid. It turned out that Dustin Moskovitz (@moskov), the billionaire co-founder of Facebook, was a fellow to-do list junkie, and he was quietly working on his own product. Read more
High Performance Numeric Programming With Swift
I’ve managed to create a couple of libraries that can achieve the same speed as carefully optimized vectorized C code, whilst being concise and easy to use. Read more
FDA approves first test of CRISPR to correct genetic defect causing sickle cell disease
In 2014, two years after her Nobel Prize-winning invention of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, Jennifer Doudna thought the technology was mature enough to tackle a cure for a devastating hereditary disorder, sickle cell disease, that afflicts millions of people around the world, most of them of African d Read more
Have I Been Facebooked? : Hacker News
Of course Facebook, or even FAANG, for that matter, would keep all of the data that they hoarded from EU citizens, illegally. It goes along well with the Silicon Valley mentality (I am culturally American and I am from the west coast of the US, so I understand what is going on here. Read more
Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale | Hacker News
But if you really want to fully understand then you need to keep following that trail of incentives. Your bosses boss doesn’t optimize for those metrics “just because”. There are reasons and persuading them requires understanding those reasons. A company has only so much revenue. Wasting that revenue in the best case reduces profits. In […]
$7.5B In Stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved | Hacker News
> if you receive BTC from one of these addresses as payment for something, do you refuse it? You cannot refuse a BTC transaction. You could return it in a subsequent transaction, and pay the transaction fee, but I would imagine your address would be forever tainted by a number of illicit address/transaction tracking algorithms. […]
5G: The outsourced elephant in the room | Hacker News
The further you go into the architecture of the “trust based” PSTN, SS7, traditional Telco stuff… The more you will see the total lack of modern cryptography, PKIs, zero trust network modeling, etc. Source: 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room | Hacker News
China Fines Alibaba $2.8 Billion in Landmark Antitrust Case
The penalty is the biggest move to date in China’s campaign to tighten supervision of its internet Goliaths. By hitting the e-commerce titan Alibaba with a record $2. Read more
Opting your Website out of Google’s FLoC Network
Google recently announced the rollout of their Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a new advertising-surveillance initiative that seeks to replace third-party cookies with a new user profiling technique that garners data generated by the browser itself. Read more