- The Economist on Do Not Track: Online advertising: Don’t keep on trackin’
- The Apple Newton is twenty. Oh boy, I loved that thing. I had the last three models and ran a mildly popular Newton mailing list at on my 486 Linux PC at CERN. It was chunky, large and slow, but I loved it. Apple’s Newton MessagePad PDA at Twenty | Techland | TIME.com
- What questions are keeping astronomers up at night? | Ars Technica
- Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran | New York Times
- This is from April, but I still think it is very funny. David Pogue on Facebook buying Instagram:
Zuck: “Well, you’ve got a point there. I don’t know how I’d scrape by, either. O.K., 950. But that’s our final offer.”
App guys: “Get real! We could get $2 billion from Google, easy.”
Zuck: “O.K., one billion dollars. Plus I’ll teach you how to block invitations to join stupid groups you don’t care about on Facebook.”
App guys: “Deal!”