This day in history
2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.
I’ll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library tonight, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There’ll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!
#15yrsago Zoe’s Tale: Scalzi’s smart-ass young-adult sf thriller https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/12/zoes-tale-scalzis-smart-ass-young-adult-sf-thriller/
#10yrsago UK home secretary wants to overturn human rights treaties and make terror suspects stateless https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/12/theresa-may-british-terror-suspects-stateless-passport
#10yrsago David Nutt wants to make non-addictive, safer synth-booze that comes with a sober-up pill https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/getting-drunk-without-the-hangover-or-health-risks-scientist-seeks-investment-for-alcohol-substitute-drug-8931946.html
#10yrsago Irish Freedom of Information amendment will send FOI fees to infinity https://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2013/11/10/freedom-information-fees-multiplied-new-amendment/
#10yrsago GCHQ used fake Slashdot, LinkedIn to target employees at Internet exchanges https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/uk-spies-continue-quantum-insert-attack-via-linkedin-slashdot-pages/
#5yrsago A catalog of ingenious cheats developed by machine-learning systems https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml
#5yrsago Youtube CEO: it will be impossible to comply with the EU’s new Copyright Directive (adios, Despacito!) https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/i-support-goals-of-article-13-i-also/
#5yrsago Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed Hacking Team https://www.vice.com/en/article/3k9zzk/hacking-team-hacker-phineas-fisher-has-gotten-away-with-it
#5yrsago Wells Fargo: We can’t be sued for lying to shareholders because it was obvious we were lying https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-wells-puffery-20181109-story.html
#5yrsago Global antiquarian bookseller strike brings Amazon to its knees https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/technology/amazon-bookseller-protest-strike.html
#5yrsago New, “unbreakable” Denuvo DRM cracked two days before its first commercial deployment https://torrentfreak.com/hitman-2s-denuvo-protection-cracked-three-days-before-launch-181112/
#5yrsago How many computers are in your computer? https://gwern.net/turing-complete#how-many-computers-are-in-your-computer
#5yrsago The market failed rural kids: poor rural broadband has created a “homework gap” https://www.wired.com/story/rural-kids-internet-homework-gap-fcc-could-help/
