Why Putin's Crimean Move Crosses the Line →
Hard power, soft power, and the gaps between military intervention, policing, and international institutions.
Conduct Unbecoming of a Hacker →
Patch instead of whining.
Innovation in California is at its absolute peak right now. Sure, half of the companies are silly, and you know two-thirds of them are going to go bankrupt, but the dozen or so ideas that emerge out of that are going to be really important.
— Bill Gates, "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview"
Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield →
Rather than ground or air superiority, the military is focusing on spectrum superiority so that radio, GPS, radar, and the other electromagnetic phenomena the modern military relies on remains reliable.
You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
— James Madison
via The Economist, "What's Gone Wrong with Democracy?"
On Spike Lee & Hyper-Gentrification, the Monster That Ate New York →
A New Yorker's perspective on gentrification and the historical difference between it and the current "hyper-gentrification" that is affecting San Francisco and New York.
How to Protect Your iCloud Keychain from the NSA →
There's more technical detail in here than even I can follow, but it sounds like on the whole Apple put some seriously impressive technical effort into securing iCloud, Keychain, and other personal data backed up from iOS. Props to them.
Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security →
The Guardian attends a master key ceremony for the Internet's root DNS servers and details the technological and social constructs behind it.
(via S.F. rents up more than 3 times higher than national average)
Though it's currently the focal point, high rent isn't limited to San Francisco. Let's zoom out, shall we:
Researchers Draw Romantic Insights From Maps of Facebook Networks →
Relationships that last are ones in which the other person widens our world.
Facbook's data science team put this one out a little while back, but still insightful.