Regulatory Capture at ICANN

Regulatory Capture at ICANN

The EFF/DNRC, along with multiple ICANN groups (Business Constituency, At-Large Advisory Committee, Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group, Intellectual Property Constituency, Registrar Stakeholder Group), National Council of Non Profits, Internet Commerce Association, and a few others. She’s in favor of removing price caps for a registry and allowing free market policies that VeriSign has the strongest financial incentive to push for of any registry in existence with it’s . Not only is there virtually no support for this policy, the only people making any argument in favor of removing price caps have captured an ICANN constituency to do it, one that is supposed to represent business interests broadly (not registry interests).

Source: reviewsignal.com

Ageism in Effect: The Earnings Ceiling for Tech Professionals over 40

Ageism in Effect: The Earnings Ceiling for Tech Professionals over 40

New data shows that, as tech pros age, they earn more… but ageism starts to kick in when they’re around 40 years old, and there’s a distinct ceiling for earnings. A 2018 survey from First Round Capital shows us startup founders think ageism in tech starts to kick in around age 36 (roughly the time Hired’s data shows salary expectations and offers start to go opposite directions). Our study also showed that, as tech professionals age, fear of ageism worsens:

A ProPublica report from earlier this year provides insight into why older tech pros may not feel they’re worth as much.

Source: insights.dice.com

Ravelry, the Facebook of knitting, has banned pro-Trump posts

Ravelry, the Facebook of knitting, has banned pro-Trump posts

Hate groups and intolerance are different from other types of political positions,” Ravelry said, warning users not to goad others into voicing support for Trump. Ravelry, a private site created in 2007, has transformed from a niche discussion board to a digital marketplace where users can sell their wares and swap patterns in a global community. Some longtime Ravelry users welcomed the move, saying the toxicity of online political discourse has plagued their quiet hobbyist refuge, though others expressed concern over the policy.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

The Internet Has Made Dupes–and Cynics–Of Us All

The Internet Has Made Dupes–and Cynics–Of Us All

The internet is becoming a low-trust society, where an assumption of pervasive fraud is built into the way things function. The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function. Google nukes content farms; Apple rules its App Store with an iron grip; Amazon’s return policy—generous to customers but stringent to vendors—serves as a check against fraud; Facebook and Twitter have been pressured to de-platform the most noxious purveyors of conspiracy theories and fake news.

Source: www.wired.com

German regulator says it discovered new illegal software on Daimler diesels

German regulator says it discovered new illegal software on Daimler diesels

Over the weekend, Germany’s auto regulator told Daimler that it would have to recall 42,000 Mercedes-Benz diesel vehicles after the group discovered illegal software on the cars that would reduce the effectiveness of the emissions-control system. The US Environmental Protection Agency accused VW Group of including illegal software on its diesel vehicles to ensure that the diesels would pass emissions limits imposed by the US. Separately, Daimler, BMW, and Volkswagen Group have been under investigation by the European Union Commission for allegedly conspiring to hinder emissions reduction technology in diesel and gas vehicles.

Source: arstechnica.com

Confirmed: Nasa Has Been Hacked

Confirmed: Nasa Has Been Hacked

Thornton-Trump’s comments resonate with the conclusion of the audit report which states: “the inability to protect against cyberattacks in general and advanced persistent threats in particular places the Agency’s status as a global leader in space exploration and aeronautics research at risk…”

I have contacted NASA for a comment and will update the story should one be forthcoming. Update June 20 12:05 ET

In response to my request for a comment on this story, Karen Northon from NASA headquarters referred me to the agency’s response in the audit report. In a letter dated June 13 to the assistant inspector general for audits, Renee P. Wynn, NASA chief information officer, and Marcus Watkins, director of the NASA management office, address ten recommendations made in the audit report.

Source: www.forbes.com

Query Plan Caching in CockroachDB

Query Plan Caching in CockroachDB

We’ll start with an overview of the stages of the query planning process; then we’ll go over the methods clients can use to issue queries against CockroachDB, and finally we’ll discuss the caching work we have done to speed up query planning. This caching also speeds up the execution step of prepare-each, but this method is still relatively inefficient because of the prepare step (which runs for every query instance). Recall the benchmark that breaks down query planning time by phases:

If we use the prepare-once method and execute a previously prepared statement, we store the result of the Parse/OptBuild/Normalize stages with the prepared statement and on each execution we can proceed with the stages:

This is a significant (more than 50%) reduction in planning time.

Source: cockroa.ch

Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation’s Emergency Number

Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation’s Emergency Number

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A major telephone outage hit the Netherlands on Monday, taking down the country’s emergency number and leaving many businesses and municipalities unreachable by phone. Police sent officers onto the streets so that people could approach them for emergency help and issued an alternative emergency phone number an hour after the outage began around 4 p.m. (1400 GMT). “We’re appealing to everybody who wants to report an emergency and needs help to … go onto the street.

Source: www.nytimes.com

The “How”s, “What”s, and “Why”s of Elixir Telemetry

The “How”s, “What”s, and “Why”s of Elixir Telemetry

There are four steps to follow to set up Telemetry in your project: 1) Install the library; 2) “attach” the Telemetry supervisor to your project; 3) Define the “events” to capture; 4) “Execute” against those events. By including Telemetry in your project’s list of dependencies, you automatically get access to its emitted events. By including Telemetry as a dependency, Ecto will automatically start sending events for every query to the event, `[:my_app, :repo, :query].

Source: samuelmullen.com