Ex-Illustra, Sleepycat, Cloudera. Currently: Board member at Cityside. Working on: Climate. Politics.
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The problem is not the FBI buying tracking data without a warrant. Police forces don’t need a warrant to ask people what they saw or look at voluntarily disclosed CCTV footage.
The problem is that this data is being collected and aggregated in the first place. Oppression does not get better because you privatise it.
Charles Bennett and Giles Brassard have won the Turing Award for their work on quantum information science. It's very much not my field -- I don't know the winners or their work. It's an interesting choice by the ACM, highlighting the near-term importance of quantum cryptography and (happily!) shifting the focus from work on synthetic text extrusion.
Here's a really good summary of who these guys are and what they did:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryptography-pioneers-win-turing-award-20260318/
Came my way via Scott Aaronson's Shtetl-optimized.
Molly White, @molly0xfff, does consistently excellent work reporting on cryptocurrency grift. Latest edition of Citation Needed is out:
Astronomers have discovered 11 more moons around Saturn, bringing its total to 285--by far the most of any planet in the solar system.
The true number may be unknowable, if you count every ring particle as its own little moon.
https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26F14.html #space #science #nature #math
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
Sam Litzinger
Peter Gleick
Corey S Powell
George Conway