We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. nyti.ms/2G76rNq

2 news today: 1) Google cancels annual developer conference (originally scheduled for May 12-14) because of coronavirus concerns; 2) IEEE pushes for Early Registration for IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2020), May 3-6, Toronto, Canada

I finally upgraded to 10.15, but only to realize that Apple mail lost the features I used to have. Quoting others: "Very, Very Sad what Apple software has become. Too bad Apple is more concerned about making movies than supporting their millions of consumers using Apple software"

[email protected] belongs to a spanner. Can Google please quickly delete this account? Or even better, apply your AI analytics to block future account requests with the names of similar nature.

One of the questions I am most often asked about the #COVID19 pandemic is how, and when, it will end. This article by Ed Yong is not here does a really good job of outlining the steps we need to take. b-gat.es/2QU3Njx

Humanity faces two unprecedented threats. One, #Covid19, is a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. The other, climate change, will span many lifetimes, and remains our most dire challenge. But we have the technology to conquer it—now. Here’s how 1/ wired.trib.al/UOR8ueA

In South Korea 🇰🇷, the solar panels in the middle of the highway have a bicycle path underneath - cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and the country can produce clean energy. x.com/UniverCurious/…

from ZOOM instruction page ""You can be signed in to Zoom on one computer, one tablet, and one phone at a time. If you sign into an additional device while logged into another device of the same type, you will be logged out automatically on the first device.” -- why so?

Breaking: UC plans to file suit against the federal government for violating the rights of the University and its students following new ICE regulations. Full statement: bit.ly/2BUd3zX

Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/…

Twitter, please stop flooding me with all the false information NOW (dont know what happened, all of a sudden a big volume of it started flooding in about a week ago)

Zoom screwed up my account, I tried to get help, but only ended up talking to a clueless robot.

There’s still time to register for #NDNComm! NDNComm brings together researchers from academia, industry, & gov't, as well as users & other parties interested in the development of the Named Data Networking technology. Learn more at: go.usa.gov/xMJNU

I wonder why Zoom's website does not have a user feedback channel. There seems no way to get around that bot assistant.

To share: a talk by David Rosenthal (updated version of "Can We Mitigate Cryptocurrencies' Externalities?") blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-…

ACM Information Centric Networking Conference 2022 will be held Sept. 19–21, 2022 in Osaka, Japan x.com/ACM_ICN

I tried hard but failed to cancel my youtybe membership -- the process either gets stuck or otherwise circulates back. Anyone has wisdom to share?

our paper, "Revealing Protocol Architecture’s Design Patterns in the Volumetric DDoS Defense Design Space" is to appear on IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.js…

(not to name names) A webpage's feedback and bug report buttons are both no-op, how would one report issues with the page?

I asked ChatGPT to draw a protocol layering figure after a 3-step virtualization. ChatGPT promised to do it quickly, but after saying "it'll be done soon" multiple times, ChatGPT simply cleared up the whole conversation -- this does not look intelligent, or even honest.