Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s refusal to help the FBI access an encrypted phone is an important and unprecedented event in the long, strained relationship between Silicon Valley and the government. But there is one particular line, near the end of his letter, that sticks out: “We are challenging the FBI’s demands with the deepest respect…
The launch of Google’s AMP project looms this month, and not everyone is excited. The project’s site describes Accelerated Mobile Pages as “an initiative to improve the mobile web and enhance the distribution ecosystem” by providing “web pages that are optimised to load instantly on users’ mobile devices” and “designed to support smart caching, predictable…
Two years after Gamergate began and multiple restraining orders later, Zoe Quinn is walking away from a criminal harassment case in favor of talking openly about her story. (Erin Patrick O’Connor/The Washington Post) By all accounts, Zoe Quinn — the 28-year-old video game developer whose personal life sparked the Internet conflagration known as Gamergate — had a…
Ice-cream bandits are flipping their stolen desserts to bodegas, according to 13th Precinct commanding officer Deputy Inspector Brendan Timoney. View Full Caption Shutterstock/Keith Homan MANHATTAN — Your bodega ice cream may be hot. A string of ice cream thefts at Manhattan drug stores was motivated not by a love of dessert — although…
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has designated Wednesday as the day of the week to make the massive employee cuts the company announced on its earnings call weeks ago. But, instead of just felling the ax at once on 15 percent of staff, she has dragged the pain out…
Well, that was not entirely unexpected. Eight Hundred and Four days after taking the purple, my career as a Yahoo is over. During the past 2+ years I have had the honor and privilege of working with the best (and smallest) staff of any tech publication on the Internet. Despite an enormous set of challenges…
leading video or graphic inside story_update.jpt In Story Photo or Graphic Section paragraphs 8 leadingContainer photo leadingShape horizontal hasRBox true The New Hampshire presidential primaries mark the beginning of a long campaign, with candidates now onto states where voters look a lot more like our country. The next states will be different, but one thing…
Women confident enough in their abilities to overcome the gender bias may well be, on the whole, more qualified and thus more likely to produce clean code.Jacob Ammentorp Lund/Thinkstock A recent study that is both heartening and maddening has found that women’s contributions to open-source software are more likely to be accepted than those…
Head to any housewares store and you’ll find aisles full of machines designed to easily bake up everything from cupcakes, to cake pops, to even home-made Twinkies. But none can compare to the life-changing potential of a machine that can quickly and easily bake up edible spoons. You don’t even need to make your own…
Kanye West has once again changed his release plans for The Life of Pablo, and this change will be pretty meaningful for listeners if he sticks to it: he says the album will only ever be available to Tidal subscribers. West had originally planned to stream the album exclusively on Tidal for a week while…