techcrunch.comDesperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August.
www.buzzfeednews.comThe move is sure to raise privacy concerns as law enforcement gains the ability to match DNA from crime scenes to a vast library of possible relatives.
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stratechery.comIf you remove the societal impact, just for a moment, the story of publishers’ demise — first newspapers, and now digital-only companies like BuzzFeed and Huffington Post, which both announced significant layoffs last week — is rather banal: infinite competition combined with an inferior produ
www.hanselman.comFor whatever reason when a programmer tries something out for the first time, they write a "Hello World!" application. In the IoT (Internet of Things) world of devices, it's always fun to make an LED blink as a good getting started sample project.
www.thestateofthearts.co.uk“I think the decision is daft and harmful to the city,” says Liberal Democrat councillor Mark Wright. In September this year Bristol Mayor, Marvin Rees, decided to abandon existing proposals for a new 12,000 capacity arena next to Temple Meads Railway station.
www.theverge.comApple did something unprecedented this week: it temporarily revoked Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, in a punishment to the company.
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blog.deming.orgIt is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth. W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics, page 35.
www.hanselman.comI remember when we announced NuGet (almost 10 years ago). Today you can get your NuGet packages (that contain .NET libraries) from Nuget.exe, from within Visual Studio, from the .NET CLI (command line interface), and from Paket. Choice is good! Most folks are familiar with NuGet.
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