Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata analysis of 3 key platforms (Messenger, Whatsapp & Instagram). They will make money by tracking your relationships and social groups. They will make that information easily accessible…

##machinelearning on Freenode IRC

David Carroll has been locked in a legal war to force the infamous company to turn over its files on him. He’s won a battle, but the struggle continues.

Facebook represents the normalization of practices that should never have been seen as normal. Use it, and the company will take anything they can extract from you, and will systematically sell it to the highest bidder, give it away or irresponsibly allow…

Bill Gates said in his year-end letter last month that he planned to work to persuade U.S. leaders to embrace advanced nuclear technologies as a solution to curbing climate change. That work appears to have begun.

I’ve hated enterprise sales since long before I started Puppet. I just didn’t know why.

A committee of disparate interests envisages sending billions of euros and thousands of government jobs to coal country as mines and power plants shut down.

Random investigations. A very low level tech blog. - kjpgit/techdemo

Will these people never learn?

Dutch bike manufacturer VanMoof got fed up with how often U.S. shippers damaged its products—so they got creative

:satellite: Organized & Useful Resources about Deep Learning with TensorFlow - astorfi/TensorFlow-World-Resources

Nuku'alofa, Tonga: Tonga has been rescued from a very serious communications black-out this week by a small tech start-up venture in Nuku'alofa, run by smart, young adventurous Tongans and their partner company in Vanuatu, who have managed to swing some extra…

All of Michigan, D.C., and a large chunk of Pennsylvania are part of the area where Border Patrol has expanded search and seizure rights. Here's what it means to live or travel there.

Data-science job openings are expanding faster than the number of technologists looking for them, says job-search firm Indeed

A small and powerful society of Viners create Amazon’s reality. But is there such a thing as too much free stuff?