Elon Musk has decided to throw away more than a decade of brand equity by changing the name of Twitter to ... the letter X. Imagine if more media executives followed his lead.
Dr. Jack ReVelle disarmed two hydrogen bombs that accidentally fell out of a B-52 bomber over Eastern North Carolina during the Cold War.
A new study found that the most popular worship songs come from a handful of megachurches with a knack for writing pop songs about what God will do for you.
Today, we're thrilled to announce that by the end of this month, LinkedIn members will be able to verify where they work with a Microsoft Entra Verified ID credential. By simply looking for a verification checkmark, companies and professionals can now be confident that candidates, recruiters, and opportunities are truly who and what they say they are!
More of this, please!
In this blogpost, we explain and open source the counting algorithm that powers Pingora.
Always fun to learn about new algorithms, in this case count–min sketch (CM sketch) estimation.
A brief look at how a few security companies got to define the present state of the industry.
Despite the various iterations of cyber strategies (and the effort of those who worked to create and implement them) over the years, many underlying cyber problems facing the United States today are worse than they were in 1998. Accordingly, something needs to change if the impact of this strategy is going to be any different.
Comparing the new strategy with those of the past decades highlights how U.S. cyber policy has changed and where this strategy most represents continuity or change. The most important topics of comparison are the promise and threats of cyberspace, getting markets to deliver security, partnerships between the public and private sectors, and countering adversaries.
Educated workers, dating to even before the pandemic, have been migrating away from the most prosperous parts of the country.
We have now reached a point in the startup ecosystem where for large VC funds, a startup achieving a billion-dollar outcome is meaningless. To hit a 3-5x return for a fund, a venture partnership is looking to partner with startups that can go public at north of $50B dollars. In the entire universe of public technology companies, there are only 48 public tech companies that are valued at over $50B. Simultaneously there are close to 1,000 venture funds all trying to find these select few. This is a huge problem. It is likely that many of the funds deployed over recent years will be some of the worst-performing of all time.
With United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), a district court judge in New York made history by being the first court to rule that a warrant is required for a cell phone search at the border, "absent exigent circumstances".