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Fed Tech News Roundup

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem: Senate advances secret plan forcing Internet services to report terror activity Ars Technica (Today) - Legislation modeled on 2008 law requiring Internet companies to report child porn.The legislation, approved 15-0 in a closed-door hearing, remains "classified."

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Fed News Roundup 13 July 2015

CTOvision

And mobile Internet. FBI chief: ISIS using encrypted communication ThreatBrief (Yesterday) - The Islamic State terrorist group is increasingly using encrypted communications to recruit troubled Americans and urge them to carry out attacks, FBI Director James Comey told Congress on Wednesday. Creepy cyber coincidence?

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Building a Better Middleman

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

No need to interact with a human recruiter. This was certainly true of the 1990s internet boom. An airline sits between passengers and destinations. Tech staffing, for example, is a matching problem at its core. Yes, keeping up with the Shiny New Thing of the Moment means having to wade through plenty of hype.

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The Cross-Industry Potential of Predictive Analytics

Coforge

There is also a large number of devices and machines gaining network capabilities, creating a highly connected and constantly data generating Internet of Things (IoT). billion Internet users contributing to growing data volumes. It is estimated that there are over 10 billion connected things across the world, as well as 3.7

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Data's day of reckoning

O'Reilly Media - Data

elections, recruitment of terrorists, and online harassment. These issues aren’t new to the consumer internet. These incentives have been front and center in the conversations around the roles that social networks have played in the 2016 U.S. Other fields have had their days of reckoning.

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Vim: from foe to friend in 9 minutes

ProdOps

In one of my first job interviews as a junior, the recruiting manager wanted to test my limited set of skills and asked what my favorite IDE was. Aligning code by a delimiter vim-airline/vim-airline ?—?A For years Vim was a stranger to me. My answer was something like “Notepad++”. scrooloose/nerdtree ?—?A

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Official Intelligence

LeanEssays

A Killer App for IoT When devices are scattered throughout a physical space, controlling them by voice is a killer app for the Internet of Things [1] – but only if a simple control standard is embedded in every device. Amazon’s Echo has a different focus: always-on listening and hands-free control of an exploding array of internet devices.