A new look, logo, and website for Fastmail

A new look, logo, and website for Fastmail

Our new look celebrates our values, modernizes our logo, and makes it easier than ever to talk about why it’s important to feel good about email. Our new envelope, going in a more geometric direction, resembles the logo for our group email product, Topicbox. We use illustrations in our new website design to show how Fastmail benefits the people who use it.

Source: fastmail.blog

We moved to Turkey from San Francisco to continue working on our startup

We moved to Turkey from San Francisco to continue working on our startup

Why did we move to Turkey if SV is so great? As for investors – if you have a great product, you don’t need that coffee with that random investor. If you really want to raise money, it will be much much easier if you have a great product and good investors won’t care where you live.

Source: shafyy.com

Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to cancel all $1.6T of student loan debt

Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to cancel all $1.6T of student loan debt

On Monday, Sanders will submit legislation that cancels $1.6 trillion of student loan undergraduate and graduate debt for approximately 45 million people. The proposal goes further than the plan already unveiled by his Democratic primary rival Sen. Elizabeth Warren . Under the Sanders plan, if you have student debt of any kind it would be canceled the second the legislation is signed into law.

Source: www-m.cnn.com

Google spent ten years researching what makes the ‘perfect’ manager

Google spent ten years researching what makes the ‘perfect’ manager

That’s why for 10 years, Google has conducted research to figure out what makes the perfect manager, so it could train its leaders to develop those behaviors. According to Google, here are 10 behaviors a good manager should display. What was far more important for managers were emotional-intelligence skills, the ability to understand and control emotions, both their own and those of their people.

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Want a House Like This? Prepare for a Bidding War with Investors

Want a House Like This? Prepare for a Bidding War with Investors

Last year, investors bought about one in five starter homes in the United States (defined as priced in the bottom third of the local market), according to CoreLogic. In the most frenzied markets, investors bought close to half of the most affordable homes sold last year, and as much as a quarter of all single-family homes. Mrs. Wilkes and her husband, Anthony, spent a year looking at properties, losing at least one to an investor who swooped in with a cash offer.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Proving security at scale with automated reasoning

Proving security at scale with automated reasoning

It provides the highest level of assurance possible for critical security characteristics of the cloud, such as access control policies or network exposure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Automated reasoning is used to provide higher levels of security assurance for core AWS code used by our internal teams, as well as in tools that are customer accessible across a variety of AWS security services. Zelkova does this by using automated reasoning to analyze policies, such as those used for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Source: www.allthingsdistributed.com

Ocracoke Island in North Carolina Speaks Elizabethan English

Ocracoke Island in North Carolina Speaks Elizabethan English

Located 34 miles from the North Carolina mainland, Ocracoke Island is fairly isolated. For several decades, he dropped out of sight, only to reappear in 1759 when he bought Ocracoke Island for £105 from a man named Richard Sanderson, a justice and later a General Assembly member in mainland North Carolina. Even today, things are a bit different for the island’s 948 residents than on mainland North Carolina.

Source: www.bbc.com

The Case for Regulatory Capture at ICANN

The Case for 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

I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is siding with the thief

I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is siding with the thief

I also use them as my main debit card, because I (mistakenly) thought that the immediate notifications and safety limits would keep me safer in case of fraudulent transactions. Six days ago, on the 18th, I saw a familiar (and super helpful) notification from the Revolut app:

“You have reached your monthly spending limit”, with no information at all as to transaction, merchant or amount. Meanwhile, the fraudulent transactions keep happening, long after I canceled my card and told Revolut it wasn’t me.

Source: www.stavros.io

BMW is accelerating electrification plans

BMW is accelerating electrification plans

With the i3, the Munich-based company has the second best-selling electric car in their native Germany (after the Renault Zoe), but the model is now already six years old. Since the premiere of the i3 in 2013, BMW has not launched another fully electric car on the market, instead opting for plug-in hybrids. At the IAA 2017, Krüger announced that all new electric cars would be marketed under the BMW i subsidiary brand.

Source: www.electrive.com