A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T.

Dirk Strauss

Law Enforcement Hackers

• Hacking: Not Just for the Feds! via Slate – Technology

Other

• Local Law Enforcement to Receive Hacking Help from FBI for iPhones, Kelli Sladick
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook posts about fake news are back online after mysteriously disappearing via Business Insider
• Google’s Eric Schmidt was flummoxed by one of the company’s famously tough interview questions via Business Insider
• Here’s how much an iPhone 7, a TV, and sneakers would cost if they were made in the US via Business Insider
• Codebattles: Competitive Coding in the Workplace via Hacker News
• MasterCard is expanding its mobile wallet in South Africa via Business Insider
• Netflix is giving part of the ‘Mythbusters’ team their own show — here’s the trailer via Business Insider
• What Comes After Encryption? via Digg Top Stories
• Here are a few easy ways to clear up space on your iPhone via Business Insider
• Senate Hearing on “The Dawn of AI” via Hacker News
• Europe is building ‘deep tech’ clusters beyond London, Berlin, and Stockholm via Business Insider
• A day in the life of Instagram superstar and clean eating queen Deliciously Ella via Business Insider
• CodeSOD: Trimming the Fat via The Daily WTF
• Webcam blackmail, known as ‘sextortion,’ is on the rise and has been linked to 4 UK suicides via Business Insider
• Facebook is reportedly looking to muscle in on Apple’s turf in Ireland via Business Insider
• Google’s ad boss gave a big hint about how adverts could work in voice search via Business Insider
• Find out what 2 digital gurus have to say about the future of media via Business Insider
• Netflix Announces Offline Downloading via Digg Top Stories
• A devious new spam trick is targeting iPhone and MacBook users — here’s how to stop it via Business Insider
• Reddit Gearing Up to Ban or Quarantine the Alt Right Subreddit via Hacker News
• More Than 1M Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan via Hacker News
• Attn: is all over Facebook — the startup averages a whopping 3.8 million views per video via Business Insider
• Apple has been secretly meeting with the FDA for years via Business Insider
• Apple’s futuristic wireless headphones will ship ‘over the next few weeks,’ CEO says in email to customer via Business Insider
• Clever ways to reuse your old iPod via Business Insider

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Even More

• The First 10 Things To Do When Your PC Can’t Run A New Game via Gizmodo
• Twitter now lets you create Moments on your phone via The Next Web
• The best email app on iOS just got a desktop version via The Next Web
• Amazon launches new artificial intelligence services for developers: Image recognition, text-to-speech, Alexa NLP via GeekWire
• India has built the world’s largest solar power plant via The Next Web
• 10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Instapaper Master via Gizmodo
• Convert Scientific Data into Synthesized Music via MAKE
• How NASA is exploring cloud computing via GeekWire
• 9 New iMessage Tips And Tricks For iOS 10 That Make Texting Better via Lifehack
• 8 Best Tips To Choose A Good Data Recovery Software via Lifehack
• Microsoft’s new app tries to fix Android’s copy and paste problem via The Next Web
• How to Fix Facebook’s Fake News Problem in 3 Easy Steps via Gizmodo
• Watch Humans Destroy The Earth in 30 Years With Google Earth Time Lapse via Gizmodo

Podcasts

• Progressive Web Apps with Kirupa Chinnathambi via .NET Rocks!
• Software Podcasting with Robert Blumen via Software Engineering Daily

Programming

• Amazon Announces MXNet as Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS via InfoQ
• Docker on a Synology NAS – Also running ASP.NET and .NET Core! via Scott Hanselman’s Blog
• An Overview of Various Docker Registries via InfoQ
• SQL SERVER – How to Find the In-Memory OLTP Tables Memory Usage on the Server via SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority
• Power BI Native Query and Query Folding via MSSQLTips – Latest SQL Server Tips
• How to Get the Output of a Stored Procedure into a Table via SQLServerCentral.com Articles
• Flying with Xamarin and Telerik UI via Telerik Developer Network
• Presentation: gRPC 101 for Spring Developers via InfoQ
• .NET Core Tools Switch to MSBuild via InfoQ
• Presentation: Operating a High Velocity Large Organization with Spring Cloud Microservices via InfoQ
• Article: 5 Lessons Security Can Learn From DevOps via InfoQ
• Lawyer.com: Early Adopter of HTTP/2, Speaks to InfoQ via InfoQ
• Presentation: Spring Boot @ PayPal via InfoQ

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Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 Goodness

• Windows 10 courses in MVA, Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Developer for Windows 10
  • What’s New
  • Get Started
  • Design
  • Develop
  • Publish
• Channel 9 – A great online resource for Windows 10 related videos
• Developer Tools Download,Download any Visual Studio sku’s, including VS 2015

For more excellent content, have a look at these great sites

• The week in .NET, Bertrand Le Roy
• Abhijit’s World of .NET,Abhijit Jana
• Kunal Chowdhury’s Technical Blog
• Lock Me Down – Security For The Everyday Developer by Max McCarty
• GeekLift
• James Michael Hare
• Interesting Finds by Jason Haley
• FormatException by Brian Mullen
• Dew Drop by Alvin Ashcraft
• Regular Geek by Robert Diana