How does Apple (privately) find your offline devices?

How does Apple (privately) find your offline devices?

Each time Lassie sees some (unknown) device broadcasting an identifier, she won’t know if it belongs to Timmy: but she can send it up to Apple’s servers along with her own GPS location. The pseudonym approach described above should work well to keep Timmy‘s identity hidden from Lassie, and even from Apple (up until the point that Ruth searches for it.) Ruth can send in Timmy‘s pseudonyms to Apple’s servers, and if Apple finds a match, she can obtain and decrypt the GPS coordinates.

Source: blog.cryptographyengineering.com

Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN

Arc.io – A Crowdfunded Distributed CDN

Arc is an alternative to online advertising where websites and users cooperate, contribute, and benefit together. While browsing websites that embed Arc’s widget ( ), a little surplus bandwidth from millions of devices is safely united into a people-powered cloud network. Websites rent this low-cost Content Delivery Network (CDN) and proceeds fund Arc-powered websites and reward users.

Source: arc.io

The Euthanasia That Wasn’t

The Euthanasia That Wasn’t

Some stories explicitly made the false claim that Pothoven was given euthanasia by a clinic, leaping ahead of the facts based on her prior request for euthanasia and her Instagram post

Dutch media did not report that Pothoven died of euthanasia. Some stories explicitly made the false claim that Pothoven was given euthanasia by a clinic, leaping ahead of the facts based on her prior request for euthanasia and her Instagram post. The truth is clear: Pothoven sought euthanasia, and she was refused

The deeply shocking story on such a controversial issue was irresistible, and became a top news item all over the world overnight.

Source: www.politico.eu

CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox

CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox

A grid defined as a subgrid is pretty much the same as a regular nested grid with its own track listings. A less obvious use case for subgrid is to help in the situation where you have an unknown amount of repeated content in your layout, and want to be able to place an item from the start to the end of the grid. If you make the repeating section a subgrid for columns, with implicit rows, all of those rows fit into the same grid area of the parent, rather than creating more rows on the parent.

Source: hacks.mozilla.org

“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics.”

“Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics.”

Whether you are a first time developer or a large team of experienced programmers, we are excited that you are creating apps for the App Store and want to help you understand our guidelines so you can be confident your app will get through the review process quickly. The guiding principle of the App Store is simple – we want to provide a safe experience for users to get apps and a great opportunity for all developers to be successful. If the App Store model and guidelines are not best for your app or business idea that’s okay, we provide Safari for a great web experience too.

Source: developer.apple.com

Winston Churchill’s Closest Confidant

Winston Churchill’s Closest Confidant

However, as Graebner observed, the attachment grew and at some point Churchill took to introducing the poodle thus: “His name is Rufus II—but the II is silent.” So when Pugh’s partner, J.W. Bruford, examined Rufus II in March 1948, he gave Churchill his “firm opinion that you should not allow yourself to become attached to this dog, as it is likely that he will be an unsatisfactory companion within a year or so.” Within two months of the poodle’s becoming a fixture in Churchill’s household one of his secretaries wrote to Miss Lobban, “Rufus is adorable and the greatest fun now.

Source: www.laphamsquarterly.org

How Canary Deployments Work in Kubernetes, Istio and Linkerd

How Canary Deployments Work in Kubernetes, Istio and Linkerd

A refinement of the canary pattern called canary analysis involves an additional baseline cluster running services of the current production version alongside the canary cluster and with equal amounts of traffic. To implement a canary pattern, for instance, operators could specify a rule like

to divert 1% of traffic to a users-v2 canary. Unlike Kubernetes, canary deployments in Istio can be implemented without requiring a specific number of instances.

Source: glasnostic.com

The DevOps Phenomenon: An executive crash course

The DevOps Phenomenon: An executive crash course

June 15, 2019 | Palace Hotel, San Francisco

ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science

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Natasha Noy, Yuqing Gao, Anshu Jain, Anant Narayanan, Alan Patterson, Jamie Taylor – Industry-scale Knowledge Graphs: Lessons and Challenges

Five diverse technology companies show how it’s done

Ivar Jacobson, Roly Stimson – Tear Down the Method Prisons!

Source: queue.acm.org

Ask HN: How to Publish on Your Own?

Ask HN: How to Publish on Your Own?

Looking for guidelines to self-publish in various related to computer science). Most of the wisdom related to processes in this space is passed on in a streamlined way to incoming grad students and researchers in an academic setting. How do I get this officially published(not about formats but about the processes)?

Source: news.ycombinator.com

Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Master’s Degrees

Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Master’s Degrees

The full scope of the borrowing was revealed May 21, when, for the first time, the Department of Education released information about how much debt students are taking on to earn degrees from various academic programs at American colleges and universities. In releasing the college loan data, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos described it as part of President Trump’s executive order to address the student debt crisis. At the same time, the department is preparing to uproot the Obama administration’s approach to the debt crisis, by repealing regulations that cut college programs out of the federal financial aid system if students don’t earn enough money to pay their loans back.

Source: www.nytimes.com