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The Borowitz Report: Chinese Hackers Drop U.S. Government from List of High-Value Targets→
SHANGHAI (The Borowitz Report)—In a rare announcement from a notoriously publicity-shy group, Chinese hackers revealed today that they were dropping the United States government from their official list of high-value targets. Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/XIBBvc
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Laptop is dusty these days. His shell is slightly scratched. But he’s still bright on the inside—even polished—thanks to the years of oiling by fingertips and palms. He bears the marks of his experience. The A, S, E, D, C, O, L, N, and M keys are worn down to a point of near-illegibility. There’s evidence of lots of activity on the BACKSPACE key—though, having just sifted through a bunch of writing from those years, I think maybe not quite enough. Crumbs were, and continue to be, a problem.
Still, he looks basically great. I turned him on. His hourglass spun…
Nathan Heller revisits the ancient laptop he used in college: http://nyr.kr/SWx1Nx
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"We can rightly judge a society by how it treats its eccentrics and deviant geniuses—and by that measure, we have utterly failed."
— Columbia Law School professor and author of “The Master Switch,” Tim Wu on how the legal system failed programmer Aaron Swartz— and Us: http://nyr.kr/ULLhE2(Source: newyorker.com)
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The short report published on the new system is full of vital statistics—how many neurons, how fast they run—but there’s not a single experiment to test the system’s cognitive capacities. It’s sort of like having the biggest set of Lego blocks in town without a clue of what to make out of them….
Gary Marcus on I.B.M.’s brain simulator, code-named Compass: http://nyr.kr/107naEB
