Testing products for data privacy and security / Boing Boing
It’s an exciting and treacherous time to be a consumer. The benefits of new digital products and services are well documented, but the new risks they introduce are not. Basic security precautions a…
Breitbart was a unique driver of hyper-partisan, trumpist news that shifted the 2016 election / Boing Boing
A team of esteemed scholars including Yochai “Wealth of Networks” Benkler and Ethan Zuckerman (co-founder of Global Voices) analyzed 1.25 million media stories published between April 1…
Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda - Columbia Journalism Review
The 2016 Presidential election shook the foundations of American politics. Media reports immediately looked for external disruption to explain the unanticipated victory—with theories ranging from Russian hacking to “fake news.” We have a less exotic, but perhaps more disconcerting explanation: Our own study of over 1.25 million stories published online between April 1, 2015 and […]
After careful study, UC Berkeley’s George Lakoff has devised a rigorous taxonomy of Trump tweets to allow the general public to see beyond their superficial qualities and understand the Presi…
There are two main reasons annotation is often a challenge. The first is that writing copy that is succinct with the right amount of detail is tricky. The second is that implementation can be a pai…
Of course, when you hear this, it's almost never true. It's just a nice way of saying you didn't get the job. But, in a project-oriented universe, smart organizations work hard to ma…
Let's take a look at why animated gifs work so well as explanatory tools; what kinds of charts, graphics, and data visualizations they're best for; and how you can make your very own.
Container Security Vendor NeuVector Zeroes in on the Network - The New Stack
Docker container security vendor NeuVector emerged from stealth last month, announcing general availability of its network-centric approach to securing containers. “Coming from a traditional network security background, we quickly realized that existing approaches are not adaptable to container environments – they don’t transfer well, and other solutions are slow and incomplete,” said Fei Huang, NeuVector…
Cisco's Identity Crisis: Complexity, Pride, and SD-WAN
Our Cisco team has been reaching out to get feedback on our relationship with Cisco and its products — a healthy practice for any vendor. I’ve tried to be open, honest, and consistent in all …
And it's gone —The true cost of interruptions - JAXenter
People need roughly 23 minutes to go back to their tasks after a major interruption, but the plot deepens if you're a programmer. Find out why programmers hate interruptions.
algorithm - Easy way to determine whether a given graph is subgraph of some other graph? - Stack Overflow
I'm looking for an algorithm to check whether a given graph is subgraph of another given graph.
I have few conditions to make this NP complete problem bit more feasible..
The graphs have approx &...
Organizations that want to increase their metrics either invest in: Creating more value for their customers, or Doing just enough to keep going, but for less effort and money. During their fir…