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✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach where threat actors gained access to one of its email systems used by five other internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. The company says that it discovered the compromise on June 17 and responded immediately by blocking the attacker and implementing defense measures. The investigation determined that the hackers exploited a vulnerability in an unnamed third-party software that KDDI Corporation used on its system. “Although technical defensive measures have already been implemented for the system,…

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Back in the day when Principia originally released for Windows in 2014, the game would run on versions as far back as Windows XP. Given that Principia 1.4 was released while Windows XP still had mainstream support, this of course made sense at the time, and there was no real reason not to support it given that the tooling and dependencies at the time were still compatible with it. Fast forward to today with Principia as an open source project. While the Windows version should…

💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and Allied Signal).   Why would a National Laboratory need the capacity to do this? To provide components that were not available commercially.  In this case, Sandia’s goal was to make radiation hardened devices for use in weapons and space missions.  The harshest environments and where reliability was paramount. Sandia began their fab in…

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it:Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid software engineering organization. In April this year, the company announced it had raised another $150M in fresh funding.But just three weeks later, Pollen laid off about 200 people, a third of staff. Leadership assured employees all was well. However, from that point on,…

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The real issue is whether publishers of scientific journals should retroactively apply contemporary standards regarding duplicate publication or self-plagiarism to historical papers. The journal publishing norms in the early 20th century were substantially different. The emphasis was on achieving the widest dissemination of knowledge across a fragmented scientific community separated by language and geographical distance, publishing in many different journals. As a result, the boundaries were heavily blurred between lectures, conference proceedings, booklets, collected essays, published journal articles and so forth. The scientific enterprise has…