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Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the Cranberries, dies aged 46 [theguardian.com]
Damn, loved her music…

What a busy week, although I did a hell of a job meeting these farces deadlines and dues.

This is a pretty good piece on the search for the first gaming commercial, interesting stuff [gamehistory.org]

One of the truly best writers on the Net Neutrality topic for 13+ years in Harold Feld has released part 1 of his overview in the decades long war to save the free and open internet. [j.mp]

Should read this when you have a chance to.

@streakmachine Yep. Looks okay but not the one you can awe on though. Other words, I’m skeptical.

/@matigo

Any of you remember this one?

This is so fitting, thanks XKCD for the headache that people will face for years. [xkcd.com]

@matigo They and many other businesses may have to choose between security and performance.

Not good…

Microsoft on Spectre updates' speed impact: “single-digit slowdowns” on new PCs, big effect on PCs with Haswell/older chips and servers with I/O-intensive work [theverge.com]

TLDR:

Windows 10 users with 6th gen or later Intel CPUs should be good.
Windows 10 users with 4th gen or earlier Intel CPUs are mostly okay but might see some throttled performance.
Windows 7 and 8 users with 4th gen or earlier Intel CPUs are screwed.

So the Raspberry Pi isn't vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown CPU attacks [raspberrypi.org]

Here's a post into why is the case.