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Tim Prestero of Design that Matters breaks down the hard questions

New Relic founder and CEO Lew Cirne unveiled the future of his company at its FutureStack16 conference earlier this month, and its name is Seymour. This machine-learning technology mines data from the company’s stack monitoring software and turns it into useful information for customers. New Relic collects a billion pieces of data per minute, said Bharath Gowda,…

Yale history professor Timothy Snyder took to Facebook to share some lessons from 20th century about how to protect our liberal democracy from fascism and authoritarianism. Snyder has given his permission to republish

How hackers start their afternoons.

It is not always easy, but several companies dedicated to the supercomputing market have managed to retune their wares to fit more mainstream market

A few years ago, Dan Harmon broke the structure of stories down into eight basic parts: A character is in a zone of comfort, But they want something. They enter an unfamiliar situation, Adapt to it, Get what they want

Inspired by Italo Calvino, a team of engineers teaches neural networks to imagine entirely new cities.

Deception lures are all of the rage these days, and when deployed properly, are extremely low overhead to maintain and trigger little to no false alarms.

If you follow SUSE, you know we recently made our first technology acquisition—openATTIC—and announced it at our annual customer conference, SUSECON. At the time, I said there would likely be similar acquisitions when it makes sense for our growth strategy, as well as our open source development and business model. Well, that time has come. […]

Have you ever had to decide between a general purpose tool and one built for a very specific purpose? The general purpose tools can be used to solve many different problems, but may not be the best choice for any particular one. Purpose-built tools excel at one task, but you may need to do that […]

Today we are launching Amazon AI Services for natural language understanding, speech recognition, text-to-speech, and image analysis

Sovrin's verifiable claims provide the means of creating a virtual university with little or no traditional integration between the various players.

Here is a separate bit from that interview: I’m interested in how animals are connected to the internet and how we might be able to see the world from an animal’s point of view. There’s something very interesting in someone else’s vantage point, which might have a truth to it. For instance, the tagging of […]

The Australian anthropologist explains why being scared about AI and big data has more to do with our fear of each other than killer robots

Secure your remote workers with the Cisco Umbrella roaming clients designed for Android OS, iOS, Google Chromebook, MacOS, Windows, and Cisco AnyConnect VPN.

This video is fantastic. Funny, smart satire with real commentary. Worth watching.

Found this on the Interweb.

The U.S. government says Flaviu Georgescu was an arms dealer who wanted to sell weapons to terrorists. So why did he call the CIA to tell the agency what he was doing?

FPGAs have been an emerging topic on the application acceleration front over the last couple of years, but despite increased attention around use cases in

For a photo project called Women's Work, Chris Crisman made portraits of women who have jobs not typically done by women in the US. In an interview at aPhotoEditor, Crisman explained the why he did the project: I am

I like this advice from John Lilly, a serial CEO and now a partner at Greylock: I didn’t understand the role of simplicity and messaging early on. One of the things that happened at one of my start-ups was that I would get bored saying the same thing every day. So I decided to change […]

Dave Pell from Nextdraft on the connection between OJ Simpson and Donald Trump and how celebrity warps American minds. By the time OJ Simpson was arrested after the infamous ride in the White Ford Bronco, it was totally

It was May 2014 when a small team of American airmen monitoring a Russian satellite launch saw something they had never seen before. An object the team thought was a piece of debris from the launch suddenly came to life.

The eagerly awaited kottke.org holiday gift guide for this year is coming soon (here is last year's in the meantime), but very quickly: if you're in the holiday shopping mood, check out these Cyβ3r M0nd@y deals:

When a wealthy businessman set out to divorce his wife, their fortune vanished. The quest to find it would reveal the depths of an offshore financial system bigger than the U.S. economy.

Demography - Conventional wisdom holds that births following the colloquially termed “shotgun marriage”—that is, births to parents who married between conception and the...