Scott Manuel

Little nugget on N.C. State's run: Wolfpack is 1 of 6 ACC teams with a national championship in its history. They beat the other 5 -- Louisville, Syracuse, Duke, Virginia, UNC -- to win this week's tournament.

Instagram’s new Notes feature evokes memories of AOL’s Instant Messenger for millennials, but Gen Z doesn’t get it. Well, from this old Gen Xer to the kids...there was a time when you could disconnect from the Internet and AIM made it easier. wsj.com/articles/insta… via @WSJ

Nothing like a good #longread on a 12ft tall skeleton sold at Home Depot and the related market dynamics. Spoiler alert...plenty of money made here. #Halloween #business www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nytime…

It doesn't get much more esoteric than how the Internet keeps time with the NTP protocol. A great story about the people and tech keeping it alive. #longread The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time newyorker.com/tech/annals-of… via @NewYorker

Today would be a great day to release #AustinTice. #freeaustintice Inside Biden's meeting with Austin Tice's parents axios.com/austin-tice-bi…

A constant product management challenge for successful software...how not to make it suck after 20 years of success. #productmanagement #Google What Google Search Isn’t Showing You newyorker.com/culture/infini… via @NewYorker

This Big-Ice Cream conspiracy story just keeps getting better and better. Learned that mcbroken.com tracks all the broken machines. My geo has 11% down. #mcbroken McDonald’s Ice Cream Woes Have Inspired Memes, Mockery and Now, a Federal Lawsuit nyti.ms/3t6sixN

@mkhoury @nonodename I love the strategy in theory. Seems like current analytics tools would allow airlines to build better models predicting how often and who would take advantage of the hack based on flight history. A neat big data problem. Of course, with my luck I would be the next guy they sue.

@nonodename @SRMThoughts once wondered why my trip to LGA showed up in the travel system as a trip to Bermuda (true story). 😂 MSP → LGA was $700 but MSP to Bermuda was < $300 with a hop off at LGA.

Games airlines play, @Delta edition. April 22 ✈️ 1. MSP → HNL (direct) = $590 2. MSP → HNL → KOA = $263 Do option 2 and hop off in Honolulu. Unreal, but believable.

A really interesting read on the connected TV market. Those dongles we use now will continue to lose market share as people just use what is baked into their TV. Plenty of strategic moves to come. Mean Screens – VideoWeek videoweek.com/2022/02/07/mea…

Sorry sir, you will be listening to NPR forever. So many software bugs out in the wild. Car infotainment system bugs are one of the worst. Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems | Ars Technica arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/r…

The wild, wild west of public / private / nation-state hacking all rolled into one article. It's a mess out there. North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet outline.com/gEPJ2x

What a technically fascinating and terrifying exploit. An amazing piece of engineering sadly used for bad things. Project Zero: A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep…

@cforman @RexChapman @AV8intheblue

Uncertain #BEST is correct, but no question a funny film and devastatingly accurate about the Road to Dushanbe. It took a few years, but when I took the #ACTUAL Road to Dushanbe for a bunch of miles, I have to say I was impressed…@RexChapman @AV8intheblue @SRMThoughts

A story of loss...both personal and technical. Don't throw the old hard drive out before extracting your private keys or you may lose your family. #Bitcoin Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump (via @Pocket) newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

Time passes, but McSorley's stays the same. A great 1940s @NewYorker article that could have been written today. newyorker.com/magazine/1940/…

Today would be a great day to bring #AustinTice home. #FreeAustinTice

When you had to use one of these to play your Atari #GrowingUpGenX

Please spare a kind thought or prayer for Charlotte Observer photographer David Foster's family, and for our own family of current and former Observer-ites, who all loved David. His passing is just crushing news for all of us. Frosty was 52. charlotteobserver.com/news/local/art…

History rarely repeats, but it does sometimes rhyme. Will the post-pandemic 2020s look like the 1920s? It's complicated. What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably) (via @Pocket) smithsonianmag.com/history/are-we…

A fantastic piece of journalism @politico on the killing of Osama bin Laden 10 years ago this weekend. One of the most consequential operations in my lifetime detailed in a brilliant oral history. Well done. politico.com/news/magazine/…