A mistakenly published password exposed Mercedes-Benz source code
Mercedes-Benz accidentally exposed a trove of internal data after leaving a private key online that gave “unrestricted access” to the company’s source code, according to the security research firm that discovered it. Shubham Mittal, co-founder and chief technology officer of RedHunt Labs, alerted TechCrunch to the exposure and asked for help in disclosing to the […]
A reporter’s journey into how the U.S. funded the bomb
As I sat in a dark, cavernous movie theater in Berlin watching the film “Oppenheimer,” my mind was thousands of miles away. Like many other people who turned out to see the biopic, I was captivated by Christopher Nolan’s portrayal of the Trinity test and Cillian Murphy’s performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the singularly ambitious, […]
A Plea for More Mikado
One of the books that impacted the most my career is probably The Mikado Method. I read it almost 10 years ago, and I don’t practice it explicitly. But I think of the method almost every day, and it has been impacting how I work ever since. And yet, it has remained something quite obscure. […]
Improving my Emacs experience with completion
I’ve been using Emacs for many years, using it for any writing for my website, writing my books, and most of my programming. (Exceptions have been IntellJ IDEA for Java and RStudio for R.) As such I’ve been happy to see a lot of activity in the last few years to improve Emacs’s capabilities, making […]
Wear OS’s most consistent OEM quits: Fossil stops making smartwatches
Enlarge / The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch. Fossil Fossil was the only brand keeping Google’s Wear OS alive for years, but now the fashion brand is quitting the smartwatch market. Just before the weekend, the company confirmed to The Verge: “We have made the strategic decision to exit the smartwatch business.” The company says existing […]
Notes on Cruise’s Pedestrian Accident
Notes on Cruise’s pedestrian accident Notes on Cruise’s pedestrian accident | I’m trying some experimental tiers on Patreon to see if I can get to substack-like levels of financial support for this blog without moving to substack! This is a set of notes on the Quinn Emanuel report on Cruise’s handling of the 2023-10-02 accident […]
Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments
Annals of Music Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes A.I. Experiments In the record business, Grainge said, “everything’s disruption, disruption, change, change. I’m used to disruption.”Illustration by Seb Agresti; Source photograph by David Livingston / Getty Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story Sir Lucian Grainge, the chairman and C.E.O. of Universal Music […]
Everyone hates the electronic medical record
They tell you that injustice is part of some grand plan. And that’s what keeps you from rising against it. —Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Patient R was in a hurry. I signed into my computer—or tried to. Recently, IT had us update to a new 14-digit password. Once in, I signed […]
Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
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Dracula Theme for Hacker News
Install using browser extesion Install using Git If you are a git user, you can install the theme and keep up to date by cloning the repo: git clone https://github.com/dracula/hacker-news.git Install manually You can find a link to the css that you’ll need to manually inject on Stylus here.