If you thought floppy disks were a relic of the past, think again. A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppies. Jacopo Prisco tells the story in Wired:

The floppy disk may never truly die out. “There are people in the world who are still busy finding and fixing up and maintaining phonograph players from 1910, so it’s really hard for me to believe that the floppy disk is just going to utterly disappear,”…

WIRED’s business unit interviewed Jerome Pesenti, VP of artificial intelligence at Facebook. The major takeaway:

[he] is encouraged by progress in artificial intelligence, but sees the limits of the current approach to deep learning.

Could this be the beginning of the end for this particular AI hype cycle?

In upcoming versions of iOS and macOS, the new Find My feature will broadcast Bluetooth signals from Apple devices even when they’re offline, allowing nearby Apple devices to relay their location to the cloud… it turns out that Apple’s elaborate encryption scheme is also designed not only to prevent interlopers from identifying or tracking an iDevice from its Bluetooth signal, but also to keep Apple itself from learning device locations, even as it allows you to pinpoint yours.

WIRED with a fascinating explanation of an utterly fascinating scheme.

The most surprising part: no bot net. Attackers used memcached on various compromised servers to create the biggest amplification attack anyone has ever witnessed. Amazingly, the entire incident only resulted in a 20 minute outage (thanks to efforts from the team at Akamai Prolexic).

Yes, you read that headline correctly. We’re talking about 🍕.

Thanks to Arithran Thurairetnam, we can now order Pizza directly from within Vim.

Now one of us needs to :OrderPizza and have it delivered to Arithran’s house.