My Weekly #Roundup #59 - #Einstein #GravitationalWaves #Security #Music #Geekness #Ukulele #Science

Interesting things that i read this week! (not only gravitational waves!)

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Security & Privacy

• Windows 10 Sends Your Data 5500 Times Every Day Even After Tweaking Privacy Settings

• Mysterious spike in WordPress hacks silently delivers ransomware to visitors

• AndroL4b - A Virtual Machine For Assessing Android applications, Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis

• IoT Reality: Smart Devices, Dumb Defaults

• Exploiting Google Maps for Fraud

• WordPress Infections Leading to TeslaCrypt Ransomware

• Gophish - Open-Source Phishing Toolkit

• New Java bug leads to “complete compromise” of PC, warns Oracle

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Science

• Science confirms that gravitational waves exist

• Scientists have finally proven Einstein’s century-old theory about gravitational waves

• Einstein was right: Scientists detect gravitational waves for the first time

• Gravitational Waves: 6 Cosmic Questions They Can Tackle

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Geekness

• UN Rules in Favor of Julian Assange Though He is Still Not a Free Man

• Another Use for Old Hard Drive Parts: Anemometer

• One Punch Man Is the Next Must-See Anime Show

• How to Get Website on Google in Under 20 Minutes

• This Psycho-Pass Dominator Replica Switches Battle Modes Like Wow

• You can build your own life-size Star Wars BB-8 for less than $100

• You can run over 1,000 Windows 3.1 programs in your browser

• Impressive LEGO Paper Plane Folding Machine

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Programming

• Some of the Apollo 11 source code

• Holistic Configuration Management at Facebook

• Related posts on Jekyll, a custom solution

• CloudKit Adds Support for Server-to-Server API Access

• Microservices, the Unix philosophy, and the Richardson Maturity Model

• Hardware Hacking With JavaScript

• Julian Storer: Obsessive Coding Disorder

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Ukulele & Music

• Looking for cover ideas for Valentines Day

• Experiments in making Luthier Spool Clamps

• Question about changing tuning pegs

• Overcoming Stage Fright

• Theme from ‘Schindler’s List’ - Arranged for Ukulele

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Running & Wellness

• McDonald’s kale salad has more fat and calories than a double Big Mac

• 5 running goals that have nothing to do with racing

• Footwear Considerations for Runners

• Warm-up, Cool-down and Injury Treatment

• Yoga Practice for Runners

• Why Diet Matters More than Exercise For Weight Loss