Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
-
Anatomy of a malicious script: how a website can take over your browser - Interesting breakdown of a malicious script that opens a bunch of popups.
-
Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News - Good read on the history of using the internet and social media as a tool of influence from al-Qaeda’s use in the early days of the internet to the rise of ISIS to the current active measures used by Russia. It also includes some tips on how not to get fooled by fake news.
-
‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
-
The Instagram Generation - “The truth, then, is this: our generation was raised with an understanding that the image we portrayed mattered more than who we actually were.”