• There’s a lot of silliness at Codebits but then sometimes something like Nelo is created there and it ripples throughout the world and reaches Wired and Ars and we feel happy we created the environment where the crazy ones can change things.

• Gundotra leaves Google which might actually mean Google has a chance of getting better again.

• Great news, OpenSSL will have actual funding.

• Pavel Durov fled Russia cause he refused to give govt access to Vkontakte. Wouldn’t it be ironic if USA gave him asylum

• The European Council President makes it clear EMPs have no real power and the Commission are the ones really in charge. The state of EU democracy is there isn’t even an effort anymore to pretend it exists. Lets see if the European Parliament can show the Commission who’s the elected power in Europe.

• There was plenty of warning but that didn’t kept EU govts from keeping the dead XP into a cashcow for Microsoft through basic failure to act. And while Xbox1 is doing great hitting the 5M units mark PS4 is doing better at 7M

• Google missed analysts expectations on earnings, probably the same analysts who give Yahoo negative value.

• It’s curtain for MtGox.

• Truecrypt seems to be fairly secure as opposed to the Samsung S5 where they forgot to copy the bit about the fingerprint recognition being better than nothing which is nothing near as bad as claiming to fix a backdoor in consumer equipment and just obfuscating it to keep it available.

• Embeddable raspberryPI yummy.

• You know how didn’t use Megaupload ? Me. You know who used over 2T of megaupload ? RIAA and MPAA!

• You could develop new better medicine or you could just bribe doctors. Or better yet, just make being a kid a disease.

• Codebits happened with freakin awesome Tron Oculus powered light cycles which was just one of the hell-u-va cool things built there.

• Heartbleed went public and NSA is said to use it for years but they deny it.

• No doubts about dropbox’s direction now.

• Yes, thorium. And mist based 3d display.

Something probably happened that didn’t have anything to do with building things for Codebits. I’m not aware of it though.