Author: Andreas

  • APPLE’S XCODEGHOST FAQ

    We have no information to suggest that the malware has been used to do anything malicious or that this exploit would have delivered any personally identifiable information had it been used. FAQ.

  • US surveillance makes 'Safe Harbour' data treaty with EU invalid, European court adviser says

    15-year-old ‘Safe Harbour’ agreement between the US and EU should not stop data transfers being suspended, legal counsel says via Telegraph

  • Project Zero looks at Kaspersky.

    Google’s “Project Zero” took a look at Kaspersky’s products. The result is unpleasant, if not to say devastating. The closing statement is a constructive mention towards Antivirus products. In future, we would like to see antivirus unpackers, emulators and parsers sandboxed, not run with SYSTEM privileges.

  • Python 3.5 released

    LWN reports that Python 3.5 has been released today. Here is, what’s new.

  • AWS in Plain English

    You develop apps and want to move to the cloud? You may start looking at Amazon Web Services (AWS), but are confused? ExpeditedSSL translates the names for you. Priceless. But with 50 plus opaquely named services, we decided that enough was enough and that some plain english descriptions were needed. via: AWS in Plain English

  • 62% of streaming consumed on Apple device.

    While everybody is waiting for Apple to launch their TV / Streaming service, Adobe found that the majority of streaming media is consumed on an Apple device. and it’s growing rapidly—up 63% in the last year, according to an Adobe study of 159 billion online video starts released Friday. Fortune via Daring Fireball.

  • Star Wars Steins

    I’m more than sure, there are a few people I know that would cut off one of their fingers to get one of these mugs. They are available from Amazon US.

  • Haskell and the Future of Coding

    Haskell is a 25-year-old programming language that isn’t all that popular. But Facebook uses it, and that’s a sign of things to come. Wow. Not for a single day in the past 18 years did I even remotely think Haskell had a future. Even more with fancy hipster languages like, Ruby (not so much anymore),…

  • Economics Has a Math Problem

    The field begins to look like others that rely on data. This is a discussion I had more than a decade back with economy students, as a student of computer science. The argument was much the same and nothing much has changed in the meantime. The difference is more data is available today and can…

  • Italy found gas in Egypt.

    Italy found gas in Egypt, writes German magazine “Spiegel“.