The Insider News

All Things D[^]:

The goal, according to LeCun, is long-term: To bring about major advances in the field, while doubling down in a research partnership with NYU to intensely study machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence.

Server Density[^]:

For a guaranteed surge of traffic and to hit the Hacker News homepage, all you need to do is write about why you hate MongoDB and/or migrated to some other database. We’ve been using it to power our server monitoring service, Server Density, for over 3 years now and so with experience, many of the problems cited in these posts seem like basic mistakes in deployment and understanding.

Network World[^]:

Microsoft has waffled over the past few days about how long it will continue to sell Windows 7, initially stating that it had already stopped shipping the operating system to retailers and OEMs, but shifting the status over the weekend to "to be determined."

IT World[^]:

The biggest problem with password (in)security is that most of us are using passwords that are all too predictable: The include words that can be found in a dictionary, popular phrases, or follow common patterns. (And we're not even talking about the most commonly used passwords, "123456" and "password".) Microsoft's Telepathwords is a clever way to test if your passwords are predictable.

Computerworld[^]:

Budget sequestration may be helping to chill market.

Ars Technica[^]:

Spying should be limited to specific targets and subject to independent review.

ZDNet:[^]

More than a century after the birth of pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper the programming language she helped establish, Cobol, still underpins software used by modern businesses.

ZDNet[^]:

Once more the Supreme Court is going to have a shot to kill off software and business-practice patents. Hopefully they'll get it right this time.

The Guardian[^]:

Mount Doom is like LA and the Shire like Lincolnshire, so says a climate model based on author's famously detailed maps.

News.com[^]:

Nearly a decade in the works, Internet-wide projects designed to keep e-mail safe from scams, spam, and identity-thieving phishing attempts are paying off.

DZone[^]:

Apart from Android, Google does Trunk Based Development (TBD) everywhere. They made the review process as lean as they could, by making reviews ordinary and continuous.

Read Write[^]:

Joyent expands support for the popular development framework to nearly every server and cloud base.