My daily coffee routine goes something like this: I arrive at the office, drop my bag next to my desk, grab my mug, and head to the kitchen. I fill it to the brim with the delicious Stumptown brews WIRED provides and bring it back to my desk.

Who wants to work on a weapon? These kinds of leaks didn't happen when I started reporting on Facebook eight years ago. It was a tight-knit cult convinced of its mission to connect everyone, but with the discipline of a military unit where everyone knew loose lips sink ships.

It was roughly 30 ºF outside in Durham, North Carolina, on a recent day in late November, but Rahdi Fakhoury's 1650-square-foot house was so warm he left a window open a bit. The heater he was using? Two bitcoin mining machines and two Ethereum mining machines.

The TS100 is an open-source, precision soldering iron that includes the ability to program its temperature. In service of that, the device uses a tiny OLED screen, which allowed YouTube's Joric to hack the device and make playing Tetris another one of the tool's many features.

While the premise that Amazon is making it easier for companies to track you is not incorrect, it's hardly surprising.  Congress also just passed a bill letting Internet service providers sell your browsing data.

The bottom line is that we are living in a world where privacy is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity, especially if you're active online.

In any case, this article in The Atlantic about what Jeff Bezos and team at AWS are up to these days with respect to AI:

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Amazon Is Making It Easier for Companies to Track You

In a letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos wrote about how the company is making machine-learning tools widely available.

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Apr 16, 2017 00:03 (GMT)