Media, a conservative blog, claims that liberal sites get 96% of results for “Trump” on Google’s news page, a compilation of links to recent articles. Sites with high scores from fact-checking groups, whose judgments probably resemble Google’s, draw larger shares of their visitors from search engines than sites with low scores do. Next, we built a model to predict each site’s share of the links Google produces for each keyword, based on the premise that search results should reflect accuracy and audience size, as Google claims.

On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) tools to help enterprises make sense of the sea of data that they use and amass: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7 billion in an all-stock deal. The latter is publicly traded and this deal will involve shares of Tableau Class A and Class B common stock getting exchanged for 1.103 shares of Salesforce common stock, the company said, and so the $15.7 billion figure is the enterprise value of the transaction, based on the average price of Salesforce’s shares as of June 7, 2019. The company reportedly worked hard to — but ultimately missed out on — buying LinkedIn (which Microsoft picked up instead), and while there isn’t a whole lot in common between LinkedIn and Tableau, this deal is also about extending engagement with the customers that Salesforce already has.

FOSS messaging apps such as Telegram-FOSS, riot.im, and other free software apps that need push notifications, are facing a wall. Google started leveraging its de-facto monopoly on Android distributions by forcing all apps to use its proprietary service Firebase for push notifications. Problem: The Firebase Android client library is proprietary, meaning FOSS apps can not use it.

Only 13 percent of the 2081 UK adults surveyed by YouGov claimed they could trust multinational big tech companies to handle anonymised NHS patient data in a confidential manner, with 76 percent saying they do not support such information being analysed in countries which may have different laws governing data security and confidentiality to the UK. “There’s little doubt that new technologies will play a part in delivering care in future, and the results from this study confirm that most people support the use of anonymised patient data for medical research purposes,” said Rachel Power, chief executive of the Patients Association. A total of 102 MPs also took part in the survey, commissioned by health technology firm Sensyne Health, with only 58 percent suggesting that they would prefer the analysis of anonymous NHS patient data to be undertaken by a UK company than a multinational one – more Labour MPs felt this way (74 percent) compared with Conservative MPs (53 percent).

Which is why investigators took note when a retired couple from Michigan, Jerry and Marge Selbee, made $26 million winning various state lottery games dozens of times. Jerry Selbee: Right at that point

Jon Wertheim: Jerry says, “I think I’ve cracked the Michigan State Lottery.” That’s when Jerry and Marge Selbee developed a routine they continued for the next six years, driving 900 miles to Massachusetts every time there was a rolldown and buying hundreds of thousands of tickets at two local convenience stores.

FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) – Group of 20 finance ministers agreed on Saturday to compile common rules to close loopholes used by global tech giants such as Facebook to reduce their corporate taxes, a copy of the bloc’s draft communique obtained by Reuters showed. “The United States has significant concerns with the two corporate taxes proposed by France and the UK,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday at a two-day meeting of G20 finance ministers in the Japanese city of Fukuoka. Mnuchin spoke at a panel on global taxation at the G20 after the French and British finance ministers voiced sympathy with his concerns that new tax rules do not discriminate against particular firms.

This high number of security issues is due to the sponsoring of a bug bounty program funded by the European Commission, during the FOSSA program. During this program, we’ve had a lot of different hackers, from the best to the worst technically: so many script-kiddies, and people telling us that the VLC source code was visible… but also people who had deep understanding of C, of the stack and of memory issues. At the opposite, some reporters were more than distasteful, insulting, impatient, trying to get 2 times the bounty for the same bug, or even reporting the issues to other programs (Android one) to get more money.

In my limited experience, God mode also integrates better with the rest of Emacs than Evil mode. That’s why I switched from Evil mode to God mode: I have found the threshold to entry to other parts of Emacs lower when you stay reasonably true to vanilla Emacs. If you want nothing but a good text editor, get Emacs and run Evil mode in it.

Brian Kernighan (Unix legend, the K in K&R and AWK):

my desktop is pretty boring, since it consists of xterm windows to whatever unix system i am using at the moment. On the other desktops I have a couple of konqueror windows open, a kmail and in the system tray a kscd, which currently plays Mozart’s piano Sonata No. 15 in F by Christian Zacharias. So I don’t really feel the need for GUI things like Gnome or KDE

Jordan Hubbard (FreeBSD co-founder, later Director of UNIX Technology at Apple):

Oh great, your email arrived early in the morning when I had just logged into my system, so things are a little bleak.

Composite metal foam—or CMF, for short—is a material made from hollow metallic spheres that are surrounded by a matrix that can be made from various types of metals, including titanium or even alloys. The CMF material was then sandwiched between a layer of ceramic, which served as a faceplate, and a thin aluminum backplate, to create a composite panel of armor. That’s not only a significant amount of weight savings that could improve the safety, maneuverability, and fuel efficiency of armored vehicles, the CMF panels also require considerably less raw material than solid steel for approximately the same amount of protection.