Hacker News
- A City Is Not a Computer (2017) https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/ 41 comments
- Compute Midwest to Bring Self Driving Cars to Kansas City http://www.inc.com/travis-wright/compute-midwest-to-bring-self-driving-cars-to-kansas-city.html 7 comments
- Engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) computing applications by a factor of at least 1,000. https://cse.umn.edu/college/news/researchers-develop-state-art-device-make-artificial-intelligence-more-energy 25 comments futurology
- The New York City's MTA Is Breached by Hackers as Cyberattacks Surge: Hackers with suspected ties to China penetrated the New York transit agency’s computer systems in April, an M.T.A. document shows. Transit officials say the intrusion did not pose a risk to riders https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/nyregion/mta-cyber-attack.html?action=click&module=top%20stories&pgtype=homepage 9 comments worldnews
- Computer model representing 98 million Americans' mobility in ten major U.S. cities during the pandemic pinpoints four high-risk "superspreader" sites: restaurants, gyms, hotels, and cafes. To slow Covid-19’s spread without full lockdown, the team recommends targeted occupancy caps in these places. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/study-pinpoints-high-risk-covid-19-locations 33 comments science
- Alabama city to pay $300,000 ransom in computer system hack https://apnews.com/42c1929ff1adc6cccb25fdbcabdbceb8 10 comments politics
- The Times: Two Spygate reports sent to FA by computer expert in alleged hacking of Man City scouting system by Liverpool | Sport https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/two-spygate-reports-sent-to-fa-by-computer-expert-7pwdz3n3z 42 comments soccer
- Florida Mayor Defends Decision to Pay $460,000 Ransom to Criminals Who Hacked City Computers https://lawandcrime.com/ross-investigates/florida-mayor-defends-decision-to-pay-460000-ransom-to-criminals-who-hacked-city-computers/ 25 comments politics
- Florida city pays $600,000 to hackers who seized its computer system https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ransomware-attack-florida-city-pays-600000-to-hackers-who-seized-its-computer-system/ 8 comments politics
- Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/florida-city-pays-600000-ransom-to-save-computer-records/2019/06/19/30c47696-92cb-11e9-956a-88c291ab5c38_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.894a42eb140b 12 comments politics
- Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records https://apnews.com/0762caec21874fc09741abbdec0f78ab 14 comments technology
- Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for 2 weeks https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/21/18634505/baltimore-ransom-robbinhood-mayor-jack-young-hackers 84 comments technews
- Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for 2 weeks - A ransomware attack means Baltimore citizens can’t pay their water bills or parking tickets. https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/21/18634505/baltimore-ransom-robbinhood-mayor-jack-young-hackers 1824 comments technology
- Behind one of the most iconic computer games of all time is a theory of how cities die — one that has proven dangerously influential https://logicmag.io/06-model-metropolis/ 74 comments gamedev
- Engineers at Russia’s top nuclear research facility have reportedly been detained after they attempted to mine bitcoin on its computers. Employees at the national nuclear centre in the city of Sarov tried to use work computers to generate the cryptocurrency. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/10/russians-arrested-for-mining-bitcoin-at-nuclear-facility 4 comments worldnews
- Potential computer replacement for my Cities Mobile computer units. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/75jeu1/potential_computer_replacement_for_my_cities/ 5 comments sysadmin
- All 13,000 taxis in New York City could be replaced by a fleet of 3,000 ride-sharing cars if used exclusively for carpooling, according to research published today by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/2/14147286/mit-research-nyc-taxi-carpool-uber-lyft 24 comments science
- Every Roanoke City Elementary School to teach computer coding http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/more-computer--383345661.html 3 comments coding
- China and Israel boost science research ties: The joint research will be conducted in the fields of brain sciences, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, biomedicine, renewable energy, computer sciences, the aging of the population, “smart cities” and more http://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech/china-and-israel-boost-science-research-ties-437338 72 comments worldnews
- To ensure that every child can learn the skills required to work in New York City’s fast-growing technology sector, Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce on Wednesday that within 10 years all of the city’s public schools will be required to offer computer science to all students. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/nyregion/de-blasio-to-announce-10-year-deadline-to-offer-computer-science-to-all-students.html 28 comments politics
- New York City plans to make computer science mandatory in all public schools. The mayor is proposing a 10-year deadline in order to train enough teachers. http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9336467/new-york-city-computer-science-mandatory-public-school 603 comments technology
- De Blasio to require computer science in New York City schools http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/nyregion/de-blasio-to-announce-10-year-deadline-to-offer-computer-science-to-all-students.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0 29 comments technology
- PORN is played on public screen in Chinese city for 10 minutes as controller who is watching film secretly at work forgets to disconnect computer. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3137415/chinese-screen-broadcasts-porn-heilongjiang.html?ito=social-facebook 32 comments worldnews
- City, Peoria Mayor sued for violating constitutional rights in “Twittergate”--Police searched the home and took a number of computers belonging to the parody account holder--Streisand effect:Twitter now has at least a dozen Peoria mayor accounts — all fake http://www.aclu-il.org/city-peoria-mayor-sued-for-violating-constitutional-rights-in-twittergate/ 3 comments law
- Appellate decision issued in SF City network admin Terry Childs case: conviction upheld for "disrupting or denying computer services to an authorized user" (PDF) http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A129583.PDF 10 comments sysadmin
- The internet of things and smart cities: Will an IBM computer be your next mayor? http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/127647-the-internet-of-things-and-smart-cities-will-an-ibm-computer-be-your-next-mayor 5 comments technology
- Your next mayor: A computer -- Technology is helping cities control everything from traffic to disease. But who should control the technology? http://www.salon.com/2012/04/21/your_next_mayor_a_computer/singleton/ 6 comments technology
- Apple has apparently reached an out-of-court settlement to keep a San Francisco man from suing the company over what his attorney called an "outrageous" warrantless search of the man's home, car and computer last summer by two Apple employees accompanied by four city police officers. http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/looks-apple-paid-victim-ham-handed-iphone-search 248 comments technology
- Can Machines Predict Where Crimes Are about to Happen? "In cities across the U.S., data-rich computer technology is telling cops where crimes are about to happen. Crime is down, and the technology is spreading. But does it really work?" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-department-of-pre-crime 8 comments technology
- Occupy Wall Street Plus Anonymous May Equal City Computer Outages http://nationaljournal.com/tech/occupy-wall-street-plus-anonymous-may-equal-city-computer-outages-20111229 3 comments politics
- Barclays Premier League website simply can't compute Man United's loss to City http://www.premierleague.com/page/statistics 3 comments soccer
- Amazing Cities Made From Computer Parts http://www.topdesignmag.com/amazing-cities-made-from-computer-parts/ 3 comments hardware
- A Salt Lake City mortgage company employee allegedly got drunk and opened fired on his firm’s computer server with a .45-caliber automatic http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50159264-76/campbell-computer-police-server.html.csp 3 comments technology
- The leviathan that is Google: "If the business of 'cloud' computing seems to hold great promise, Google can build 20 or 50 or 70 massive data centers in undisclosed locations around the world, each drawing enough power to light a small city." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/books/review/baker-t.html?_r=1&hp 3 comments reddit.com
- Terry Childs, the ex-network admin accused of holding San Francisco's computer network to ransom, is suing the city for $3m. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/05/san_fran_network_admin/ 34 comments technology
- New Yorkers could soon be able to help fight crime by sending video or photo evidence directly to the city police department's computers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7536828.stm 2 comments reddit.com
- SF Admin Charged With Hijacking City's Network. His bail was set five times higher than most murder defendants'. So messing with a computer system is worse than killing someone. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/sf-city-charged.html 3 comments technology
- A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/14/baos11p1m5.dtl&tsp=1 35 comments technology
- Can Circuit City techs legally peruse files on customers' computers? http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6222794.html 2 comments reddit.com
- The British man who accidentally threw away a computer with 7,500 bitcoins on its hard drive has come up with a new plan to retrieve his lost coins from the city landfill. “We estimate there are between 300,000 – 400,000 tons of waste to look through,” he said https://news.bitcoin.com/man-accidentally-threw-away-7500-bitcoins-hard-drive-new-plan-retrieve-btc/?utm_source=onesignalpush&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=pushnotifications 34 comments cryptocurrency