The Curious Technologist
Silk Road founder loses appeal and will serve life in prison
The Silk Road network's creator Ross Ulbricht vowed to fight his lifetime prison sentence when it was handed down two years ago. But today, the US Second Circuit officially denied his appeal, sending him away for a long, long time. Under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate...
US military data reportedly left on unsecured Amazon server
Highly sensitive military data about a US intelligence agency project has been discovered on a publicly accessible server without password protection, according to a new report. UpGuard said Wednesday an analyst with the security firm discovered tens of thousands of...
Dojo is another oddly shaped solution to securing your home network
The Dojo hardware is a ‘pebble’ with a set of light rings. Green rings of light indicate that the user’s network is secured and their privacy is intact. Yellow rings indicate that a risk has been detected and automatically mitigated. Red rings of light indicate that...
Read Mary Meeker’s essential 2017 Internet Trends report
Here are a few initial takeaways: Smartphone sales and Internet penetration growth are both slowing It’s not really a “shift to mobile” as much as “the addition of mobile”, since desktop usage hasn’t declined much while mobile usage has skyrocketed to over three hours...
Hillary Clinton urges platforms to ‘hurry up’ and fix moderation
In an interview today at Code Conference, Hillary Clinton urged social media platforms to figure out new ways to slow “the weaponization and manipulation” of information, admitting at the same time that it was a difficult problem to solve. “I have a lot of sympathy at...
Build A Raspberry Pi Time Lapse In Four Dead Easy Steps
Gus at PiMyLifeUp has put together a straight forward, easy to follow guide to turn your Raspberry Pi into a simple time lapse capturing device. All you need is a Pi, the Raspberry Pi Camera, and your typical Pi accessories (SD card, power supply, keyboard, mouse,...