我们都知道这种感觉。你在悲伤的夜晚失眠，或者在朦胧的周末清晨蹒跚而行，需要一些阅读的东西，而那一堆未读的书并不能阻止你。为什么不从Twitter和RSS的消防水龙带中休息一下，看看我们每周从网络上收集的关于技术、文化、媒体和未来的重要文章？当然，坐在Instapaper队列中你会感到内疚的还有一件事，但总比再次在Twitter列表上徒劳地拉好。

关于密码

丹古丁对比了新的现实，密码破解速度以前只有通过超级计算机可以实现的帮助下，一个500美元的GPU的事实，大多数用户仍然使用痛苦简单的密码来保护他们最重要的数据。

为什么密码从来没有变弱过而破解程序从来没有变强过

At any given time, Redman is likely to be running thousands of cryptographically hashed passwords though a PC containing four of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards. It's an "older machine," he conceded, but it still gives him the ability to cycle through as many as 6.2 billion combinati*** every second. He typically uses a dictionary file containing about 26 million words, combined with programming rules that greatly extend its effectiveness by adding numbers, punctuation, and other characters to each list entry.

擦洗

Reyhan Harmanci在一些最大的网站和社交网络上与员工交谈，这些网站和社交网络致力于保持网络对儿童色情、斩首和互联网最糟糕的内容的清洁。

BuzzFeed:Reyhan Harmanci-儿童色情和其他最糟糕的东西是如何从互联网上删除的

This is not to say that every individual in this line of work has had a bad experience: the ability to handle such a mentally demanding job differs from person to person. And tech companies say that they do offer special benefits to employees who view disturbing content for a living. Facebook has a "safety team" that is tasked with reviewing the most sensitive material, and according to a spoke**an, they offer "in-house training, and also, counseling for our employees." A Google spokeswoman told me that the one-year contracts (which can frustrate those looking to stay on for longer) were designed to ensure that no one held the most brutal jobs indefinitely. Also, Google brings in independent counselors to talk to teams about secondary trauma — the kind of trauma that comes from seeing abused people and not being able to help.

在锡上

Cam Simpson将现代**、平板电脑和电视中使用的锡追溯到印尼邦加岛的危险锡矿坑，那里是全球三分之一供应的来源。

彭博商业周刊：CamSimpson-智能**里的致命铁罐

Rosnan worked among thousands of Indonesians who wield pickaxes and buckets each day on Bangka Island, extracting the tin that becomes the solder that binds components in the world’s tablet computers, **artphones, and other electronics. Police figures show Bangka miners died in accidents similar to Rosnan’s at an average of almost one a week last year, more than double the rate from 2010. There is good reason to believe it’s getting worse. At the end of July, five Bangka miners were killed beneath another mudslide.

论阅读

Rahel Aima认为“网络的超动态性”，缓慢的网络运动，以及阅读的未来。

根茎：Rahel Aima-迫不及待的网络

Here, again, was that same urgency transposed from page to screen. Do you know the feeling? That sharp, almost adrenal jolt when you open just one more tab and all the favic*** disappear to give you a segmented line of characters? You can’t increase your screen resolution much more, but keep the pages open, just on the off chance that you might actually read them. Perhaps you quickly scan in order to close a tab, yet find yourself clicking on "History" just moments later, just in case you missed something. Perhaps you feel guilty about not giving each piece the undivided attention you once lavished upon your books, but often, just knowing the dust jacket-like gist seems to be enough.

论个人图书馆

乔瑟夫埃斯波西托（Joseph Esposito）在举国上下的时候，仔细考虑了自己家的个人图书馆和电子书的吸引力。

学术厨房：约瑟夫埃斯波西托-电子书和个人图书馆

Reducing the size of my personal library made me aware that I had probably bought my last new print book. There may be excepti*** to this, as when I purchase a gift for someone, but otherwise my new books will be e-books. Used books are a different matter, though, as the pleasure of browsing is something I will not give up until the last bookstore closes. I will continue to read print because I already own so many unread print books, but the e-book revolution is well on its way in this household. Oddly, it is easier to contemplate a world of e-books than a house without stuffed bookshelves.

在平台上

在东京艺术空间数字化发布之际，Craig Mod描述了跨多个平台设计一本书的困难（和优势）。

Craig Mod:Craig Mod-平台书

And so, in the last two years a simple, strong truth has emerged: The future of books is built upon networked platforms, not islands. More than any surface advancement — interface, navigational, typographic, or similar — platforms define how we read going forward. Platforms shape systems — those of production, c***umption, distribution — and all critical changes happening in digital books and publishing happen within systems. Post-artifact books and publishing is not just about text on screens.

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