Day: October 17, 2018

Deeper dive with GitHub Actions: One config file to rule them all and in the darkness bind them

Code-hosting biz tries out a more automated delivery process Analysis At its annual developer conference on Tuesday, GitHub unveiled a way to automate software deployment workflows called Actions. It sounds rather underwhelming, given all the different automation tools available, but the executives discussing it brimmed with Apple-level enthusiasm. Sam Lambert, head of platform for GitHub,…


Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren want Amazon to explain anti-union video – CNET

The senators want the e-commerce giant to share anti-union materials it reportedly distributed to Whole Foods management. …read more Source:: CNet


Adobe Moving Stills tech adds 3D camera motion to still photos – CNET

Adobe Max sneak peeks show AI and automation for font styling, video cropping, illustration morphing and video subject selection. …read more Source:: CNet


Equifax engineer who designed breach portal gets 8 months of house arrest for insider trading

SEC said engineer figured out on its own that the website he was building was for his own company’s security breach. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Facebook Posts May Point To Depression, Study Finds

People’s Facebook posts might predict whether they are suffering from depression, researchers reported this week. From a report: The researchers found that the words people used seemed to indicate whether they would later be diagnosed with depression. The findings offer a way to flag people who may be in need of help, but they also…


Someone’s in hot water: Tea party super PAC group ‘spilled 500,000+ voters’ info’ all over web

Leaky AWS S3 bucket fingered by infosec bods Now, now, America. Don’t go overboard. Again.… …read more Source:: Register


Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want Amazon to explain its anti-union video – CNET

The senators want the e-commerce giant to share materials that were reportedly distributed to Whole Foods management. …read more Source:: CNet


Former Top Waymo Engineer Altered Code To Go on ‘Forbidden Routes’, Report Says

In the early days of what ultimately became Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division (known at the time as “Project Chauffeur”), there were “more than a dozen accidents, at least three of which were serious,” according to a new article in The New Yorker . From a report: The magazine profiled Anthony Levandowski, the former Google…


Hulu adds a Night Mode to go easy on your eyes – CNET

The TV streamer is adding a dark theme to its web experience. …read more Source:: CNet


DIY Arc Light Makes An Unnecessarily Powerful Bicycle Headlight

Remember when tricking out a bike with a headlight meant clamping a big, chrome, bullet-shaped light to your handlebar and bolting a small generator to your front fork? Turning on the headlight meant flipping the generator into contact with the front wheel, powering the incandescent bulb for the few feet it took for the drag…