Link dump - January 2019

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FAIL

• [x] Post Office IT fiasco: 'Decade of hell' for accused https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50747143
• [x] @£&"* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon(IT_system)
• [x] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/16/youtuber-pewdiepie-to-take-break-from-platform-as-very-tired
• [ ] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/some-junk-for-sale-on-amazon-is-very-literally-garbage-report-finds/

World of Stuff

• [x] We've been hacking on the #Pinetime https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/
• [ ] https://theindustryobserver.thebrag.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/

SECURITY

• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/12/nginx_moscow_office_raided/

CREEPTOE

• [x] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/16/dead_coin_exec_exhumation/

FACEBOOK

• [ ] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/20/uk_conservatives_brexit_from_whatsapp_to_signal/
• [ ] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/22/zuckerbot-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-botnik
• [ ] https://devclass.com/2020/01/07/facebook-starts-policing-deepfakes-but-theres-room-for-improvement/

HAX

• [ ] sonos "recycle mode" is synonym for brick. https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3573?language=en_US
• [ ] workaround for symantec endpoint protection crash - just rename vivaldi.exe to chrome.exe lulz https://twitter.com/ruari/status/1208018465271013377
• [x] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/17/vladimir-putin-still-uses-obsolete-windows-xp-despite-hacking-risk

E-THICS

• [ ] https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/30/gene-editing-chinese-scientist-he-jiankui-jailed-three-years
• [ ] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/19/india-internet-curbs-are-part-of-growing-global-trend

elon drunk

• [x] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-derbyshire-50947661 SpaceX satellites spotted over Derbyshire by Bradford Uni archaeology researcher
• [x] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/elon-musk-dancing-at-teslas-gigafactory-in-china.html

singularity

• [x] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/01/ai-system-outperforms-experts-in-spotting-breast-cancer
• [x] update to that amazon palm reading thing (from show 180919) - https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/26/21037923/amazon-go-hand-scanning-patent-biometrics-whole-foods-identity
• [x] First UK driverless bus in Glasgow https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-50409991/uk-s-first-full-size-driverless-bus-tested-in-glasgow

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