The Weekly Weird - 2018-09-14

Look how dedicated I am to you all, I still manage to get you your needed Weird through my horrid plague.

• How anonymous is zcash anyway? It's complicated.
• Timezones are dumb but even by that standard, this is ridiculous.
• Guard your metadata. Steps can tell you about videogame releases in addition to the previously-noted secret military bases.
• Ok, look. Can we just be a little less on the nose here? Don't introduce the aliens to the AI!
• Compilers: apparently just getting started.
• You rarely get to see a rocket launch from quite this angle.
• You know how I feel about Go. Here are some extra-surprising bits.
• Today's lesson, nothing is free. I could do without the breathless prose but hey, payment for order flow is a thing, even for Robin Hood.
• From the surprisingly-old department: this boat and this fish. See also this delightful list.