The Weekly Weird - 2016-10-28

Apologies for last week, my toe tried to kill me.

• Only one rust story this week, I promise: the Rust 2017 roadmap.
• Don't use OCR to verify domains, mmkay?.
• Native packaing comes to vim.
• We've used chemicals and science but how about using trains as batteries?
• AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• "Japan’s Financial Services Agency is nearing a landmark decision on the status and securitisation of PokeCoins, the virtual currency used to breed rare monsters in the highly successful mobile game Pokémon Go.".
• You should listen to the contents of this link.
• “renminbi” is “sterling”, “yuan” is “pound”, and “kuai” is exactly “quid”.
• Did someone stuxnet Samsung's batteries? (Probably not but it's 2016 so who knows)
• There have been some cyber attacks lately, huh?
  • How the 'Podesta emails' got hacked and fascinatingly, how you can verify their authenticity thanks to DKIM.
  • In which many providers learned the dangers of a single DNS provider (and Dyn's response).
  • A retrospective on the OPM cyberattack.
  • Just automate everything, it'll all be fine.