A security researcher told me he found his wife's information in the #23andMe files, which had 1 million users of Ashkenazi heritage and 300,000 users of Chinese heritage 23andMe first denied the leak then said it was due to scraping The Record From Recorded Future News therecord.media/scraping-incid…

Amazon can do this because the Alexa's operating system sits behind a cryptographic lock, and any tool that bypasses that lock is a felony under #Section1201 of the #DMCA, punishable by a 5-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine. 3/

I know you guys like funny or weird source code comments. Here are interesting comments in the source code of SQLite github.com/endlesssoftwar…

Some Firefox users are still experiencing a 5 second delay when trying to view YouTube content. YouTube's response: Pay for premium, switch to Chrome or disable your ad blocker.

Great example of iOS app development that maximizes the use of #privacy enhancing technologies from Apple notesightlabs.com/funnel/privacy

I was a member of different entrepreneurial groups like EO for years. Now I am a member of a few groups and friend circles of folks that have built companies and had successful exits. Many are Ultra high net worth people. I would like to share a few observations. 🧵

Started working with a software architect recently that has, once again, made me appreciate the importance of emotional self-regulation, communication, and empathy for people in this line of work.

Red Hat warns of backdoor in XZ tools used by most Linux distros - Sergiu Gatlan bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/… bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

fyi homebrew had the backdoored version of xz utils; updating now will downgrade it duo.com/decipher/red-h…

tweeps please read this.... WOW

Stockholm syndrome? Not getting spam in my inbox for a bit makes me feel like something is wrong. 😑

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Huge step back for online privacy & security for people in the UK

Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was *gone,* a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design and development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups. signal.org/blog/introduci…

You can literally just make shit up

Nowadays, it’s not enough to disagree and commit. You also need to merge, push, and release.

Everyone's worried AI will replace engineers. History says the opposite will happen. When more efficient steam engines were created, they didn't reduce coal consumption. They increased it. Lower costs made steam power viable for more applications, so demand exploded. This is