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GPS Vulnerabilities

Kate Murphy in The New York Times wrote a fascinating article about the vulnerabilities of GPS and how GPS signals can be spoofed and interfered with by anyone from nation states to delivery drivers wanting to take longer breaks who unintentially interfere with airport tracking systems!

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GameBoy WorkBoy

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YouTuber DidYouKnowGaming tracked down a fascinating unreleased GameBoy accessory from 1992 that turned the GameBoy into a desktop computer! WorkBoy used a connected keyboard and game cartridge to bring PDA functionality to the GameBoy with apps like calculator, alarm, phone book and appointment book, in 1992!

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Engineering Axioms

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Martin Rue published a great list of his engineering axioms, principles to live your work life by. The useful advice stretches across the technical and social domains, like "don't pick a solution until you've thought of at least one more" and "treat people who know less than you with respect and patience".

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Deepfake Detection Wins BTYSTE

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Seventeen year old Greg Tarr from Bandon Grammer School in Cork won the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) for creating a more efficient deep fake detector. Check out his video explaining the efficiencies he achieved here.

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2020s Technology

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Eli Dourado published an interesting technology prediction blog post looking at what the 2020s could bring to us in terms of technology advancements.

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Netflix 40ms Bug

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John Blair, partner engineer at Netflix, published an interesting post about tracking down a bug in the Netflix Android application that was causing playback to stutter on a set-top box. Turns out an extra 40ms delay in thread management by Android was bubbling up to cause the playback to stutter. What I found interesting is the process of exploration using logging that John used to narrow down the delay.

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Polynomials Vs Machine Learning

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Chris Wellons on null program describes how he built a race car simulator using polynomial calculations instead of using a more complicated, and this case less efficient machine learning solution, in order to demonstrate that not every problem needs to be solved with machine learning.

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Indistinguishability Obfuscation

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Indistinguishability Obfuscation (iO) is a crytographic protocol which was thought to be impossible until Aayush Jain and his advisor Amit Sahai from UCLA, together with Huijia Lin from the University of Washington, published a paper acheived IO using standard security assumptions. The purpose of iO, as I understand it, is to allow two pieces of the same data to be encrypted with all but one element being different, e.g. a key, and it would be impossible to determine the difference by comparing the two encrypted results.

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Open Architecture Playbook

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With the Architecture Playbook, Maikel Mardjan ahs created a book that aims to capture all the best open tools and methodologies for software development in one place, making it easier and simpler to build software.

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Creeping Devices

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The Mozilla Foundation have published an index of privacy relating to consumer devices. The Privacy Not Included site lists a range of electronics sorted by how creey they are in using your personal information.

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