The Political Cost of the Chinese Hardware Hack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/political-cost-chinese-hardware-hack/572383/
Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5172/juggalo-juggalette-facepaint-makeup-hack-beat-facial-recognition-technology
Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/
Regarding Theory as Technology - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/09/17/regarding-theory-as-technology/
No I know they’d like to study it harder, but now imagine something that’s both as ravenous as life and as competent as technology hitching a ride back up and escaping onto the interstellar stage, we’d lose that whole galaxy
You see, this planet has developed technology and life, remarkable really, problem is that all the probes we sent to study its biomechanosphere have so far either been eaten or shot down by local wildlife, so we’ve quarantined it
DSHR’s Blog: It Isn’t About The Technology https://blog.dshr.org/2018/01/it-isnt-about-technology.html
Researchers show Alexa “skill squatting” could hijack voice commands | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/researchers-show-alexa-skill-squatting-could-hijack-voice-commands/
The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611805/the-four-ways-that-ex-internet-idealists-explain-where-it-all-went-wrong/
This is what filter bubbles actually look like - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611807/this-is-what-filter-bubbles-actually-look-like/
Twitter’s new developer guidelines might end fun bot accounts. https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/twitters-new-developer-guidelines-might-end-fun-bot-accounts.html
Aligned AI: Has internalized human morals, but still has unforeseen transformative effects because any technology that powerful does that↵Super-aligned AI: Has internalized human morals, plus it has no transformative effects, really why was it created at all
What Silicon Valley won’t admit about technology and progress | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-silicon-valley-wont-admit-about-technology-and-progress
Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/
WTF #PayPal? “… as we have received notice that you are deceased… this breach is not capable of remedy.” https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44783779
Smart Toilets: Is the World Ready For Connected Lavatories? https://tedium.co/2018/07/05/smart-bathroom-technology-toilets/
Thinking Machine: Ramon Llull Inner Life of Advanced Technology Catholicism God Machine David Metcalfe http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/06/gods-machine/
QOTD: “Like any extension of the human psyche, machines are scary things[…] When you take the scary human psyche and magnify it hundreds or thousands of times with technology, it’s really nightmarish”
Habeas Data excerpt: How a mugger helped create the modern NSA surveillance program. https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/habeas-data-excerpt-how-a-mugger-helped-create-the-modern-nsa-surveillance-program.html
A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/
Are you really Facebookâs product? The history of a dangerous idea. https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html
countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html
countercomplex: Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts http://viznut.fi/texts-en/counteracting_tech_alienation.html
Hot take: If you believe technological determinism cannot be effectively resisted, then how much the projected trajectory benefits you personally determines where you fall on the scale from Kevin Kelley to the Unabomber
TIL that the technology for viewing US census data summaries is called DADS: https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/data_access_and_dissemination_system_dads.htm
advanced technology, but as in ‘advanced disease’↵↵technology so advanced it’s terminal
How to keep your ISPâs nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/
A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/
My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/
Bad idea of the day: Wear a rubber band on your wrist and snap it every time you say ‘technology’, ‘market’, ‘end user’, ‘standard’, ‘I’, or ‘is’.
Huge MIT Study of ‘Fake News’: Fa… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/
SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Kni… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-making-of-skyknit-an-ai-yarn/554894/
Gratitude for Invisible Systems - The Atla… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gratitude-for-invisible-systems/526344/
The Rise of Virtual Citizenship - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/virtual-citizenship-for-sale/553733/
Quinn Norton: The New York Times … https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/the-new-york-times-fired-my-doppelganger/554402/
Pet peeve: people who don’t realize that pencils are a technology
John Perry Barlow gav… https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-gave-internet-activists-only-half-the-mission-they-need.html
There Is No Such Thing as a Smart City - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/stupid-cities/553052/
The Center for Humane… https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/02/09/the-center-for-humane-technology-doesnt-want-your-attention/
We’re really bad at being dispassionate about non-social technologies, but even worse about social technologies (by which I mean: political systems, power relations).
Social structure is a technology, but it’s one that most self-identified techies are ill-equipped to debug, mainly due to bigotry against properly studying it.
The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/
Solder History: The Unsung Hero of Digital Electronics https://tedium.co/2018/01/25/soldering-technology-history/
The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/
OkCupid begins e… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/okcupid-begins-enforcing-real-name-rules-insists-its-a-good-idea/
AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/
Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’ | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-net-neutrality
Facebook’s fake news experiment backfires - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41900877
Machine learning hobbyist Janelle Shane talks about her wacky neural nets. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/08/machine_learning_hobbyist_janelle_shane_talks_about_her_wacky_neural_nets.html
Tech’s push to teach coding isn’t about kids’ success – it’s about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages
Ads don’t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/pirate-bay-showtime-ads-websites-electricity-pay-bills-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
Расследование РБК: как «фабрика троллей» поработала на выборах в США :: Технологии и медиа :: РБК http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/17/10/2017/59e0c17d9a79470e05a9e6c1
Exocortices: A Definition of a Technology - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/10/10/exocortices-definition-technology/
When computer predictions end up shaping the future. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/when_computer_predictions_end_up_shaping_the_future.html
Summit Powder Mountain and the Architecture of Utopia - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/the-architecture-of-utopia/539109/
The Dumb Fact of Google Money - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/the-dumb-fact-of-google-money/538458/
How Silicon Valley’s past predicts its future: an interview with Ellen Ullman - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16215836/ellen-ullman-life-in-code-interview-technology-ai
Tim Harford — Article — What We Get Wrong About Technology http://timharford.com/2017/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-technology/
Eliminating the Human - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608580/eliminating-the-human/
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608561/first-evidence-that-social-bots-play-a-major-role-in-spreading-fake-news/
Meet the Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces With "Secure Scuttlebutt" - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/
The Technology of the Cloud Index — James Bridle http://cloudindx.com/technology/
The Best Keyboard Ever Is Back http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27123/model-f-project-buckling-spring-keyboard/
Humans and machines can make beautiful music together. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/07/humans_and_machines_can_make_beautiful_music_together.html?curator=MusicREDEF
Facebotlish: Understanding an AI‘s Non-Human Language - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/what-an-ais-non-human-language-actually-looks-like/530934/?utm_source=atltw
Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and the Normalization of Conspiracy Culture - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/the-normalization-of-conspiracy-culture/530688/?curator=MediaREDEF
Binky: The App That Does Nothing - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/the-app-that-does-nothing/529764/?utm_source=feed
More science fiction can help us create a better tomorrow. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/06/more_science_fiction_can_help_us_create_a_better_tomorrow.html
How AI Can Keep Accelerating After Moore’s Law - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607917/how-ai-can-keep-accelerating-after-moores-law/
Shanzhai Archeology: defying our standardized technological imagination – We Make Money Not Art http://we-make-money-not-art.com/shanzhai-archeology-defying-our-standardized-technological-imagination/
We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs
AI’s Language Problem - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602094/ais-language-problem/
technological singularity but in a circling-the-drain sort of way, event horizon as the point of no return
Technology now not only supports viruses, but fungi: The bitrot chews up all your data, the more specialized maildew grows on forgotten spam
I think we sometimes forget that even with all the advanced web technologies, you can still share your ideas with a simple text file.
I think we sometimes forget that even with all the advanced web technologies, you can still share your ideas with a simple text file.
New build farm hardware at TUD
To quote
Eelco Visser: new
hardware for buildfarm at Delft University of Technology has
arrived.
Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
power supp … ⌘ Read more