Update: Ars Technica has produced the best write up on what’s happening with Meltdown and Spectre. Earlier: Two days ago, the tech world ran into a wall. Probably the best summation of the event is the following tweet: https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/948969633683558401 Yes, this is about the CPU bug. The CPU bug. The bug that demonstrates that sometimes […]
Update To add to the judicial abuse, Congressional Republicans want the FBI to investigate Christopher Steele for the Russian “dossier”. A veteran prosecutor, Peter Zeidenberg, said he had never heard of anything like the Grassley-Graham complaint and labeled it “nonsense” designed to detract from ongoing inquiries in to Russian interference in the 2016 election. “The […]
Vanity Fair decided to do a year-end video dedicated to Hillary Clinton. Maybe it's time for Hillary Clinton to take up a new hobby in 2018 pic.twitter.com/sbE78rA5At — VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 23, 2017 It has not gone over well. Probably before the young women in this video were born, around the time she was […]
The Washington Post published an in-depth piece about Putin’s misinformation campaign that impacted on the 2016 Presidential campaign. In it they mentioned a writer going by the name of Alice Donovan. Rather than the ‘beginning freelance writer’ this Donovan claimed to be, the individual was a fake, a contrived persona, and a source of misinformation. […]
I woke this morning to the fantastic news that Doug Jones won the Senate race in Alabama. It was a comfortable win, too—enough of a margin to preclude a voter recount. The fact that the Republican candidate Roy Moore was a piece of garbage has less to do with Jones winning than his campaign’s and […]