Unsupervised Learning: No. 95

This is episode No. 95 of Unsupervised Learning—a weekly show where I curate 3-5 hours of reading in infosec, technology, and humans into a 30 minute summary. The goal is to catch you up on current events, tell you about the best content from the week, and hopefully give you something to think about as well…

This week’s topics: IE leak, Whole Foods, Sonic, Apple Open-sources Kernels, Equifax $15 million retirement, tech news, human news, ideas, discovery, recommendations, aphorism, and more…

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Information Security news 





An Internet Explorer bug leaks what you type in the address bar. Link



Whole Foods had a breach of credit card data captured at some of its taprooms and full table-service restaurants. The main store’s POS systems were not affected. Link



Sonic has had a breach of credit card data affecting an unknown number of store payment systems. Millions of customer credit cards are now being sold online as a result of the breach. Link



Apple has open-sourced the kernel code used in macOS and iOS, which is called XNU. Link



The Equifax CEO has retired with $15 million after 143 million people were affected in his company’s data breach. $15 million. For doing the exact opposite of succeeding. Link



Patching: Netgear





Technology news 





Amazon released new hardware, including a new alarm clock form of an Echo, as well as updated Echo models. Link



Amazon is working on smart glasses with Alexa built in. Link



Music streaming revenue is up 48% so far this year because of services like Spotify and Apple Music. Link



IKEA has purchased TaskRabbit, but it will continue to operate independently. Link



IBM now has more employees in India than in the U.S. Link





Human news 





A 64-year-old man killed at least 58 people, and injured over 500, while shooting out of a window in the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. He used automatic weapons to open fire on a crowd of 20,000 people down below who were attending a concert. I’ve written a short essay about what I believe to be the cause of these events. Link



A quarter of part-time college professors are on public assistance, and some are getting desperate in their attempts to make a living. Link



IQ scores have been falling for decades, and scientists aren’t sure why. Link



Elon Musk announced dramatic new plans for intra-Earth space travel as well as missions to Mars. Link





Ideas 





The Invisible Line Between Order and Chaos Link



Why Biometric Data Breaches Won’t Require You to Change Your Body Link



Three Distinct Benefits of Reading Link





Discovery 





The Everything Bubble. Link



The pocket guide to Essential Startup Advice, by YCombinator. Link



An interesting discussion of TLS Session Tickets. Link



Information Theory of Deep Learning Link



The top 20 tech companies by revenue per employee. Link



Geekbooks — A subscription to top technical books. Link





Notes 





I just finished Essentialism, and it’s definitely one of my top 10 productivity books of all time. Link



I’m experimenting this week with a much shorter podcast & newsletter, just to see how people like it. It’s a tradeoff between being thorough but taking a long time to consume, and being concise but not having as much content. Let me know what you guys think about the balance.





Recommendations

 



Read Essentialism and incorporate its concepts into your life. One of the best books I’ve ever read on being effective in everything you do. Link





Aphorism



“We can be absolutely certain only about things we don’t understand.” ~ Eric Hoffer

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