This episode we talk about Amazon’s AI recruiting fail, WordPress accessibility issues, Google+ and more. https://recompilermag.com/2018/10/16/episode-75-do-we-need-to-faraday-cage-your-office Community Event Planning pre-order. Still time to get in on the book previews! https://community-events-2.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders Survey for event organizers https://airtable.com/shrvbemYqHvL1Z7tt Issue 10 - Science! It’s shipping. Back order sale use code READER18 for buy 2, get 3rd 1/2 off! https://shop.recompilermag.com Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G I have resigned as the WordPress accessibility team lead. Here is why. - Rian Rietveld https://rianrietveld.com/2018/10/09/i-have-resigned-the-wordpress-accessibility-team/ A Plan for 5.0 – Make WordPress Core https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/10/03/a-plan-for-5-0/ JAMstack | JavaScript, APIs, and Markup https://jamstack.org/ Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/08/google-shutting-down-google-plus/ Google faces mounting pressure from Congress over Google+ privacy flaw - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/11/17964134/google-plus-congress-privacy-data-vulnerability Tampered Chinese Ethernet port used to hack ‘major US telecom,’ says Bloomberg report https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/10/9/17955848/supermicro-telecom-server-hack-apple-amazon Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Improved PDF retrieval with Unpaywall integration https://www.zotero.org/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpaywall-integration/ Julia Evans Zines https://jvns.ca/zines/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/23/why-sell-zines/ Let’s Pair! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marlenac/lets-pair
Episode 68: Celebrating Prime Day
This week we’re talking about the ethics of corporate research and how your data is used, Twitter's developer API changes, how Amazon Prime Day went, and more. Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/08/09/episode-68-celebrating-prime-day
- [01:08] Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2018 - RECOMPILERFRIENDS 20% discount
- [01:37] DevOpsDays ticket giveaway - enter by Aug 20!
- [01:59] The Recompiler Issue 8: Wildcard
- [03:43] Responsible Communication Style Guide reprint
- [04:19] New developer requirements to protect our platform
- [13:59] Dropbox still has questions to answer after claims of improper data sharing | ZDNet
- [15:43] A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate
- [23:44] How collaborating in Dropbox helps NICO advance scientific research
- [31:01] Pandora’s Checkbox – Emily St*
- [31:28] Private and secure multiparty histograms
- [35:23] Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies?
- [38:10] Amazon’s facial-recognition tool misidentified 28 lawmakers as people arrested for a crime, study finds - The Washington Post
- [41:41] The Motherboard Guide to Amazon Prime Day's Best Deals
- [44:23] Amazon warehouse workers are striking across Europe on Prime Day
- [44:33] Muslim Amazon Employees Protest Increased Workload During Ramadan | Observer
- [45:15] The Hidden Environmental Cost of Amazon Prime’s Free, Fast Shipping
- [45:22] I'm Starting to Have Serious Doubts About Amazon Prime
- [53:24] #124 The Magic Store by Reply All from Gimlet Media
- [57:19] Lina Khan and the “Hipster Antitrust” Movement - The Atlantic
- [59:25] Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed
- [1:00:35] The Library Music Project Will Surprise and Delight Your Ears - Music - Portland Mercury
Episode 63: Everyone throws their computers out the window
This week Audrey and I chat about the new adaptive controller for the Xbox One, a new Spectre variant, Amazon’s facial recognition technology, and more. Enjoy! Complete show notes: https://recompilermag.com/2018/06/03/episode-63-everyone-throws-their-computers-out-the-window
- [01:10] The Responsible Communication Style Guide is headed back to the printers! – The Responsible Communication Style Guide
- [03:47] Kickstarter for Community Event Planning, Second Edition
- [06:25] Devopsdays Portland - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2018 - RECOMPILERFRIENDS is a 20% off discount
- [08:41] Get your OSBridge ticket today! (final year, limited availability)
- [09:36] Xbox Adaptive Controller first look: A new, necessary gamepad
- [15:24] After Meltdown and Spectre, Another Scary Chip Flaw Emerges | WIRED
- [16:52] Speculative Store Bypass in 3 minutes from Red Hat - YouTube
- [19:20] Amazon is selling police a real-time facial recognition system - The Verge
- [23:45] A few observations about Amazon being urged not to sell facial recognition tool to police
- [32:29] USGS: Volcano Hazards Program HVO Kilauea
- [35:39] Volcano facts
- [36:43] Cats: mutations and fur color, animal cognition, Istanbul
Episode 48: Wouldn’t it be cool if we knew
This week Audrey and I chat about the Strava's heatmap, a newish iOS app called Verena, a new Amazon patent to track hand movements of warehouse workers, and how ICE now has a contract to access nationwide license plate recognition date. Enjoy!
- [01:44] Recompiler Issue 9: Hard Problems
- [05:32] Recompiler Newsletter
- [06:04] Strava’s heatmap data lets anyone see the names of people exercising on military bases | WIRED UK
- [13:37] @timmathews: "On my deployments..."
- [14:59] Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF)
- [16:45] The Latest Data Privacy Debacle (NYT)
- [24:30] Verena, an iOS app to help protect people in abusive situations
- [28:36] Cell Phones: Friend or Foe? (Recompiler, Issue 7)
- [29:28] Amazon Patents Wristband to Track Hand Movements of Warehouse Employees
- [37:32] ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US
- [48:03] Presenting the winners of the U.S. Wiki Science Competition – Wiki Education
- [50:55] The Racist Sandwich Podcast: Food, Race, Class, and Gender by Racist Sandwich — Kickstarter
Episode 47: Legitimizing a Shoplifting-like Behavior
This week Audrey and I chat about Amazon's new grocery store, adversarial audio hacks, and Twitter's Russian Bot email. Enjoy!
- [02:18] Issue 9: Hard Problems
- [05:51] Amazon’s New Checkout-Free Grocery Store Doesn’t Take Food Stamps
- [19:52] Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages - Business Insider
- [32:51] AI learns how to fool text-to-speech. That’s bad news for voice assistants
- [34:39] Audio Adversarial Examples
- [47:16] Twitter begins emailing the 677,775 Americans who took Russian election bait [Updated] | Ars Technica
- [56:29] Episode 36: Maybe Skynet is just malware battling each other
- [1:02:24] Open Sourcing History: Using History to Make Your Game Better - YouTube
- [1:05:27] The existential chatroom app you can only use when your phone is dying - The Verge
Episode 34: Info ops minus the geopolitics is just marketing
This week, Audrey and I chat about Uber's latest shenanigans, Facebook's report about "information operations" on its platform, the creepy Amazon Look and more. Enjoy! Show notes