estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Christie’s Auction House Hacked Sensitive Data from 500,000 Customers Stolen
A hacker group claims to have stolen sensitive data from at least 500,000 Christie's customers and is now threatening to publish it. #ransomware
A record number of S&P 500 companies mentioned “AI” on their Q1 2024 earnings calls: 201, up from 131 in the same period last year. https://sherwood.news/business/number-of-s-and-p-500-companies-mentioning-ai-hits-record/
Getting laid off when you're working remotely is a lonely, scary and sad experience. Sharing online is a way to cope. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/29/layoffs-videos-tiktok-remote-work
The Pass It On Awards empowers women in computing to launch or expand dream projects. Ten winners get a grant of $1,000 each and complimentary registration to Grace Hopper Celebration 2024. Applications are open.
(I'm not a judge this year, for the first time since 2010. But it's still a project that changes lives.)
https://airtable.com/appsqAHzHfimj5YVX/pagsi3ULAWNPGHhIB/form
MuckRock to SCOTUS: Requesting information is not a crime https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/may/29/muckrock-to-scotus-villarreal/
I said YES to a job offer!
TIL There’s no single explanation for why we get creeped out. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/science-creepiness-180957093/
Spoiler alert: the pigeon with its high-capacity microSD cards won Geerling’s data transfer race by a significant margin. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/yes-a-pigeon-is-still-faster-than-gigabit-fiber-internet
The Grand Egyptian Museum will occupy 500,000 square meters and showcase more than 50,000 ancient Egyptian artifacts.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-01467-w/index.html
Meet the Durand, the most influential wine opener of the moment. https://tastecooking.com/what-a-wine-opener-tells-us-about-a-wine-drinker/
"But crucially, AOL wasn’t the Internet. Like its competitors CompuServe and Prodigy, it was a closed loop that relied on individual computers to network with one another. From a technological standpoint, it was closer to a bulletin board system than emerging common Internet protocols."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/aol-pretends-to-be-the-internet/
Scientists in China have turned regular old bamboo into a transparent material that’s also resistant to fire and water, and suppresses smoke. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1043562
Swiss scientists have invented a brand new kind of chocolate made of “cocoa fruit jelly.” The new concoction uses more of the cocoa fruit, making it healthier and more sustainable. https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/chocolate-new-type-cocoa-jelly
Something to keep in mind if you need to defend yourself from a male mouse
https://www.popsci.com/science/male-mice-are-utterly-terrified-of-bananas/
The French government created a website that lists the hotels, cafés, shops, restaurants and other public establishments that are accessible to people with disabilities.
https://acceslibre.beta.gouv.fr
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1045862
Brooklyn Dodgers score card, opening day 1941 #baseball https://imgur.com/a/ccc9O1D
“What works for me is thinking of lettering in AR as designing mini-experiences, not just simple extrusions of 2D type restricted to four corners.”
https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/proto-typography-graphic-design-090424
I don't know why The Actor's Studio was never released widely. But the interviews were all astonishingly good, like this one with Spielberg.
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017