The Weekly Weird - 2016-11-04

Today's factoid of the week: passwords beginning with /! (slash, bang) are bash-history safe and irc-safe-ish. The more you know!

• Fine. Here's your goddamn flying carUber
• Web Assembly has reached Browser Preview stage in Chrome, Firefox and even IE. Time to compile some Rust!
• "...locally circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics" certainly got my attention. I don't in any way understand the actual science here though.
• BPF in-kernel profiling brings DTrace equivalent power to Linux.
• And, via Cilium, in-kernel security policies as BPF bytecode. Neat!
• Lasers IN SPAAACE.
• 6 gigs may not sound like a lot but at 1kbps and an RTT of 10 hours, just finishing a download is an achievement..
• How many CATs are in a cat's genome?