As a college student, I helped create this site in, I believe, 1994: http://pynchon.pomona.edu/ I don't know that I really count as an academic, but I think the site has survived because it's sitting on a university server.
I scanned through the 25-page unclassified report released a couple of days ago. I found no technical details, which I'm afraid means that the question devolves to whether you trust the FBI, CIA, and the NSA, (plus the non-technical arguments about Putin's motivations in the report, which I found reasonably compelling).
It seems to me that it would be difficult to get all three agencies to agree that Russia was behind the DNC email hack if that weren't true, so I suspect it's probably true, but not with great certainty.
"But plenty of people have permanently damaged their knees by consistently running without getting advice on how best to do it."
The people who read running boards all the time roll their eyes at stuff like this. Saying that running will hurt your knees is the running equivalent of "The GPL will infect your codebase." It's not true, but it sounds scary.
Usually, if you ask runners how to run, they will say something like, "It's not that complicated. Run more miles, slowly."
Seems kind of like Zwrite: text-only, ephemeral messages. It was just text that appeared in your terminal session. My friends and I used it in (engineering) grad school in the late 90's.
"Hertz, son, it's hertz. Named after the old guy, Heinrich Hertz. Used to hang out at my hackerspace when I was a kid. Well, it was just a garage, but you know what I mean."
A company being successful doing X does not mean that X is what users want.
Some users probably want Google etc. to use all data available to improve their services, but some don't. The vast majority of those companies' users don't think about how the companies use their data at all. The services get better, sure, but I don't think the full price has yet been paid.
I think the 18 is counting 16 Epiphany cores plus 2 cores on the Zynq. The 64 is referring to a 64 core Epiphany chip that has only been made in prototype quantities, so far as I know.
I do business with verbal deals constantly in the US. I also do deals with written contracts, but in my experience, the cost to enforce a written contract through legal avenues means that they're not useful for most of my work.