Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice https://jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617
Jalopnik
Tesla Remotely Removes Autopilot Features From Customer's Used Tesla Without Any Notice [Updated] - Jalopnik
One of the less-considered side effects of car features moving from hardware to software is that important features and abilities of a car can now be removed without any actual contact with a given car. Where once de-contenting involved at least a screwdriver…
Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android https://insinuator.net/2020/02/critical-bluetooth-vulnerability-in-android-cve-2020-0022/
Python dicts are now ordered https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2020/02/05/dicts-ordered/en/
Simple, solar-powered water desalination http://news.mit.edu/2020/passive-solar-powered-water-desalination-0207
MIT News
Simple, solar-powered water desalination
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water per hour for every square meter of solar collecting area. Such systems could potentially serve…
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/
Reasons not to become famous https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or "A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007") - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
I felt like I somehow needed fame. In retrospect, there was a lot of self-loathing from tough childhood experiences, and I desperately hoped that love from without (i.e., from masses of other people) would somehow make up for hate from within.
Why Google Did Android https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/02/09/Why-Android
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/
Washington Post
The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened.
U.S. and German intelligence agencies partnered on a scheme to dupe dozens of nations into buying rigged encryption systems — taking their money and stealing their secrets.
No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939qbz/people-born-blind-are-mysteriously-protected-from-schizophrenia
Vice
People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia
The possible explanations could help us better understand the condition.
18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated http://www.fmboschetto.it/
Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/
Wired
Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses
The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it go mainstream.
I made my own PCBs with a 3D printer https://www.stavros.io/posts/make-pcbs-at-home/
www.stavros.io
Make your own PCBs with a 3D printer - Stavros' Stuff
What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast? https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/what-made-the-cdc6600-fast/
Tim's Blog
What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast?
Anybody who has ever taken an advanced computer architecture class has heard of the CDC6600, which was the world’s fastest computer from 1964 to 1969. It was the machine that put Seymour Cray…
Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016) https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory
I Learned French in 12 Months http://www.runwes.com/2020/02/11/howilearnedfrench.html
Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/pay-up-or-well-make-google-ban-your-ads/
Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971) https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/don-eyles-extra-weird-looking-freak-saves-apollo-14-40737/
Rolling Stone
Don Eyles: Extra! Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14!
A mantra of peace and love — fueled by a little weed — inspires M.I.T.'s latest computer genius
Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1229641258370355200
Twitter
foone
So I learned of an amusing bug today: Docker for Windows won't run if you have the Razer Synapse driver management tool running. But the reason is the funny part...
Computer vision basics in Excel, using just formulas https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel
GitHub
GitHub - amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel: Computer Vision Basics in Microsoft Excel (using just formulas)
Computer Vision Basics in Microsoft Excel (using just formulas) - amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel
How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/why-is-ethernet-mtu-1500