Last minute geek

1. An illustrated tour of Unix history
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... delightful, touching on the people and institutional forces that shaped the operating environment that has come to dominate modern computing (he even gives a mention to Cardiac, the cardboard computer ...

2. How many computers are in your computer?
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Gwern Branwen asks the deceptively simple question "How many computers are in your computer?" Having defined "computer" as "a Turing-complete device which can be programmed in a usefully general fashion ...

3. Black Friday 2018 Unieuro: sconti e prodotti
(Italiano/webnews)

Unieuro lancia con largo anticipo il Black Friday proponendo ai suoi clienti moltissimi prodotti in forte sconto in categorie come smartphone e computer. The post Black Friday 2018 Unieuro: sconti e prodotti ...

4. Apple's new bootloader won't let you install GNU/Linux
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... trusted computing can prevent compromises to operating systems and other low-level parts of their computer's operating environment. But as with every security measure, there's a difference between "secure ...

5. Kickstarting a Da Vinci-inspired, programmable, mechanical drawing robot-arm
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... best known inventions - the Robot Knight. This robot is an early proto-computer android whose read-only programmable memory allowed it to perform many actions. And it was also rumored that the robot’s ...

6. This mobile workstation is my new favorite travel companion
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... has proven difficult. I've tried lap desks, balancing my computer on a backpack, you name it. My computer always slides around, making it damn near impossible to type. What's more, a neck injury that I ...

7. stretchly Reminds You To Take Breaks From Your Computer (Open Source, Cross-Platform)
(English/Linuxtoday)

LinuxUprising: stretchly is an open source, cross-platform break time reminder. Read all

8. Microsoft's Bitlocker compromised by bad SSD encryption
(English/engadget)

Bad computer security can sometimes have a cascading effect, as researchers from the Netherlands discovered. They first spotted vulnerabilities in the embedded encryption of several SSD models from Samsung ...

9. New iPad Pro amazing for work, but iOS not up to the job
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... with it and accept that you have to go back to a real computer from time to time because it’s just easier. And in that case, you might as well just use a real computer. I had the last-gen iPad Pro and ...

10. The internet is made up revolutionary technologies, but isn't revolutionary
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

My latest Locus Magazine column is What the Internet Is For: it describes the revolutionary principle (end-to-end communications) and technologies (general purpose computers, strong cryptography) that ...

11. Steganographically hiding secret messages in fake fingerprints
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

In Towards Construction Based Data Hiding: From Secrets to Fingerprint Images , published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Sci-Hub Mirror), two Fudan University computer scientists propose a ...

12. Volkswagen wants to use quantum computers to optimize traffic
(English/engadget)

If you've ever had your bus show up later than scheduled, here's a welcome development for you. Volkswagen, with the help of D-Wave, has tapped the power of quantum computing to develop a traffic ...

13. One day, a computer will fit on a desk
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Arthur C. Clarke forecasts the future in 1974. We've come a long way. Kinda. (via r/ObscureMedia) Read the rest Read all

14. The Gemini PDA's follow-up is a clamshell communicator phone
(English/engadget)

Planet Computers' Gemini could serve as a phone if you really wanted, but it was ultimately a PDA first and foremost. It's ...

15. Voting machines in Wisconsin and Kentucky are running FTP. Seriously.
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

FTP -- the "file transfer protocol" -- is a long-supplanted Unix tool for transferring files between computers, once standard but now considered to be too insecure to use; so it's alarming that it's running ...

16. HPC Advances with Perlmutter and Sierra Supercomputers (Linux-Powered!)
(English/Linuxtoday)

ServerWatch: The world's third largest supercomputer is now live, as work begins on new Cray system for 2020 Read all  ...

17. Facebook blames malicious browser plugins for leak of 81,000 users' private messages and offer of account data for 120,000,000 users
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... of users' computers. An independent security firm, Digital Shadows, has verified that the leaked messages and account data are real, though it may be that the account data was scraped from public data ...

18. System76 Thelio computer is open source, Linux-powered, and made in the USA
(English/Linuxtoday)

betanews: Wowow new System76. Read all

19. Install and Enable DNSCrypt Proxy 2 in Ubuntu 18.04 Or 18.10 / Debian Unstable Or Testing [How To]
(English/Linuxtoday)

LinuxUprising: DNSCrypt is a network protocol which authenticates and encrypts Domain Name System (DNS) traffic between the user's computer and recursive name servers. Read all  ...

20. Magic Leap in the living room: Alone together
(English/engadget)

"I wish I could see it." He's standing in the hallway, graphite-colored goggles strapped to his face and a small, circular computer sticking out of his front pocket. He laughs as the distant ...

21. You can finally play 'Old School Runescape' on your phone
(English/engadget)

After years of being confined to computers, Old School Runescape has finally made it to mobile. More than a full year after developer Jagex promised the port, the throwback version of the wildly popular ...

22. A once-respected academic games conference has turned into such a dumpster fire that Steve Bannon is keynoting it now
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Things have been looking weird and ominous for the fifteenth annual International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, a small but respected academic games conference, and now ...

23. How to 3D print the Think a Dot, a nifty "computer" toy from 1965
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

The Think a Dot was a small non-electronic toy with an 8 pixel 2-bit display. To change the color of the pixels, you dropped marbles into three holes at the top. As you can see, the pixels change color ...

24. Porn at work led to more than 9,000 infected computers at the U.S. Geological Survey
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

A single smut-addicted official at the US Geological Survey led to an IT crisis there, according to an official report, with more than 9000 computers ending up infected. The recommendations? Filter the ...

25. Amazing Arduino-Based, 3D Printed Wire Bending Machine
(English/makezine)

Another cool design for a computer-controlled wire bending machine. Read more on MAKE The post Amazing Arduino-Based, 3D Printed Wire Bending Machine appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas ...