Clickbait of course, but still some food for thought:
Amidst the anxious grumbling of his audience at last week’s Structure Conference in San Francisco, billionaire Vinod Khosla asserted that 80% of jobs in an IT department could be replaced by AI-type systems. “I think that’s exciting,” added Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems and Silicon Valley venture firm, Khosla Ventures.

Der Psychologe Michal Kosinski hat eine Methode entwickelt, um Menschen anhand ihres Verhaltens auf Facebook minutiös zu analysieren. Und verhalf so Donald Trump mit zum Sieg

The best SF and fantasy books of 2016

Die Marktforscher von Forrester haben elf Anbieter von IoT-Softwareplattformen unter die Lupe genommen.

Inzwischen sind sich Politik und Wirtschaft immerhin darin einig, dass es beim Breitbandausbau um mehr geht als den entlegensten Eifelbauernhof mit ein paar Mbit/s anzubinden. Es geht um den Aufbau einer zukunftsfähigen Infrastruktur, mit der die Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung von immer mehr Lebensbereichen bewältigt werden können.

Nur über das "wie" wird weiter gestritten. Und das mit Verve: Anke Domscheit-Berg, die für die Linke in den Bundestag will, lässt kein gutes Haar an der Förderpolitik der großen Koalition: "Das ist ein widersinniges, völlig bescheuertes Förderprogramm", sagt Domscheit-Berg. Tosender Applaus von den rund 500 Wirtschaftsvertretern im Saal. Domscheit-Berg schlägt das schwedische Modell vor, wie sie es mit ihrem neuen Startup etablieren will.

Look at the homepages of Tim Berners-Lee, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Donald Knuth. All three together have 235 kB, less than one Google SERP. Images are optimized, most of the content is above the fold, and their pages were "responsive" two decades before responsive design became a thing. But they are all ugly. If the father of the WWW, the father of C++, and the father of computer algorithms were in an evening web development class, they would all get an F and be asked to do their homepages again.

Four sweets or production Kubernetes for a month Introduction As you might already know, I'm into containers, static configuration and self-service infrastructures. Naturally, I love Kubernetes, which I consider the most promising cluster scheduler around. In fact, the biggest reason to use containers is that they make it possible for

Weaknesses within mobile phone network interconnection system allows criminals or governments to remotely snoop on anyone with a phone

from the "no shit, sherlock" department:
Cybersecurity wird laut IT-Experten Peter Singer zu sehr vernachlässigt. Auch der Mangel an IT-Sicherheitsspezialisten wird in Zukunft ein Problem.

It ought to be a criminal offence to sell or import IoT devices that don’t meet specific security criteria.

Here's a solution that uses httplib

In this installment of Minimal MQTT, I’m going to cover two loose ends: one on the sensor node side, and one on the MQTT server side. Specifically, I’ll tackle the NodeMCU’s sleep mode to reduce power and step you through bridging MQTT servers to get your data securely out of your home server and into “the cloud”, which is really just other people’s servers.

mosquitto provides SSL support for encrypted network connections and authentication. This manual describes how to create the files needed.

The upribox software is used to create Raspberry Pi images to turn your Raspberry Pi into a privacy-enhancing Wireless router. Main features:

Transparent advertisment- and tracker-blocking (silent wifi)
Transparent adblocking + Tor network (ninja wifi)
OpenVPN server for privacy on the road