This day in history

2008, 2013.

#5yrsago Publicly funded private school creates “poor kids’ playground” for kids whose parents wouldn’t contribute to new playground equipment https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/11/west-midlands-school-accused-of-segregating-children-in-playground

#5yrsago Federal appeals court blasts North Carolina’s unconstitutional, Republican gerrymandering, orders new districts by Jan 24 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/north-carolina-gerrymander.html

#5yrsago Private prison tortures asylum seeker who refused “voluntary” labor https://theintercept.com/2018/01/11/ice-detention-solitary-confinement/

#5yrsago Federal prosecutors say that Ohio man used MacOS malware that covertly operated cameras and mics and exfiltrated porn searches for 13 years https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/man-charged-in-malware-mystery-that-allegedly-spied-on-mac-users-for-13-years/

#5yrsago Adversarial examples: attack can imperceptibly alter any sound (or silence), embedding speech that only voice-assistants will hear https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.01944.pdf

#5yrsago At long last, open video formats are triumphing https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/the-fight-for-patent-unencumbered-media.html