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[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.
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[Link] Elon Musk fails in bid to delay trial over terminated Twitter deal
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
Elon Musk has failed in a bid to delay a trial over his termination of a $44bn (£38bn) deal to buy Twitter. The social media company is suing Musk over his decision to walk away from the transaction and is demanding that he complete the deal on the agreed terms.
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[Link] Researchers Find Vulnerability in Software Underlying Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Other Apps
Read: 12/8/2022 www.vice.com
In all these cases, the researchers submitted vulnerabilities to Electron to get them fixed, which earned them more than $10,000 in rewards. The bugs were fixed before the researchers published their research.
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[Link] ‘The Guilt Is Unbearable’: UST-Luna Investors Discuss the 99.99% Crypto Crash
Read: 14/5/2022 www.vice.com
The cryptocurrency market is in the middle of a widespread crash, causing investors serious financial pain with no clear way out.
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[Link] Harassment at a Bitcoin Conference Highlights Problems of ‘Vicious’ Industry Sexism
Read: 10/5/2022 www.vice.com
At Bitcoin 2022 in Miami, an attendee broke the code of conduct that started a wave of harassment — and a renewed discussion about sexism in the crypto industry.
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[Link] Night Vision: Now In Color
Read: 10/4/2022 hackaday.com
We’ve all gotten used to seeing movies depict people using night vision gear where everything appears as a shade of green.
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[Link] I Lost $400,000, Almost Everything I Had, on a Single Robinhood Bet
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
I was 26 and stupid. I had arrived in the U.S. when I was 18. I didn't have money and worked shitty jobs to get through college. I didn't go to a nice school, and I've worked in sales ever since I graduated. My first job paid me $40,000. Next one $50,000.
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[Link] How Activision Blizzard employees made CEO Bobby Kotick powerless in just 30 minutes
Read: 2/12/2021 esports.gg
Amidst calls for resignation, CEO Bobby Kotick seemed to be all but untouchable. Blizzard employees proved him wrong in 30 minutes. Someone like Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will do whatever it takes to hold onto their power.
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[Link] Apple Will Tell You How to Fix iPhones, Sell Parts to the General Public
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Apple has announced plans to let customers repair their own phones in a monumental shift from its current repair policies. It is going to sell repair parts directly to the public, something that few phone manufacturers have done over the last decade.
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[Link] More Software Isn't Better Software
Read: 14/11/2021 www.wired.com
Last month, Eugen Rochko learned that the software project he started building during his university days, called Mastodon, is running Donald Trump’s new Truth Social network.
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[Link] Meet M6 — 10 Trillion Parameters at 1% GPT-3’s Energy Cost
Read: 14/11/2021 towardsdatascience.com
On June 25, Alibaba DAMO Academy (the R&D branch of Alibaba) announced they had built M6, a large multimodal, multitasking language model with 1 trillion parameters — already 5x GPT-3’s size, which serves as the standard to measure the rate of progress for large AI models.
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[Link] Google loses appeal, faces €2.4 billion shopping antitrust fine
Read: 12/11/2021 arstechnica.com
Google and the European Union are still battling it out over various product-bundling schemes across Google's empire. The latest news has to do with Google Shopping's integration with Google Search.
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[Link] Inkplate Comes Full Circle, Becomes True Open Reader
Read: 4/11/2021 hackaday.com
Regular readers will likely remember the Inkplate, an open hardware electronic paper development board that combines an ESP32 with a recycled Kindle screen.
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[Link] An $8K Shiba Inu Investment Turned Into $5.7 Billion. But Can They Cash Out?
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the fast-moving world of cryptocurrencies, kingdoms can rise and crumble in the space of months or days. It’s in that spirit that Shiba Inu (SHIB), a Dogecoin-inspired token, surged past its original inspiration by market cap this week, which is the total value of all tokens in circulation.
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[Link] Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.
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[Link] Techies demand top dollar as skills shortages bite
Read: 27/10/2021 www.afr.com
Australian tech companies are turning down new business because soaring pay rates being charged by workers with in-demand skills are making projects unprofitable, instead turning to training and other non-financial strategies to try to lure and retain staff.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] Bill Gates reportedly advised to end inappropriate emails with female employee in 2008
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Bill Gates was allegedly advised in 2008 by executives at the company to halt inappropriate communication with a female employee, according to a new report.
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[Link] Apple launches new AirPods and revamped MacBook Pro laptops
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apple has announced new third-generation AirPods and its much-anticipated new MacBook Pro laptops, with new screens and high-end M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
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[Link] European Union announces plans to require all mobile devices to use USB-C
Read: 14/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The European Commission has announced its intent to enact legislation that would mandate all consumer electronic devices sold in the European market within certain categories have a USB-C port for charging.
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[Link] China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says
Read: 12/10/2021 www.reuters.com
LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.
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[Link] The rise of the $100 smartphone: the beginning of a new era?
Read: 9/8/2021 www.techradar.com
It’s been nearly 17 years since Nicholas Negroponte unveiled his grandiose plan to provide computers for children across the world in a bid to squash digital illiteracy, but also revolutionize the industry at the same time.
[Link] DuckDuckGo tackles email privacy with new tracker-stripping service
Read: 2/8/2021 www.engadget.com
DuckDuckGo, which is best known for its privacy-focused search engine, has announced a new service that aims to thwart email trackers. Email Protection is now available in beta.
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[Link] Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine
Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Amazon is abandoning its Lumberyard 3D engine project before it even leaves beta, but in a way that means it could live on for years to come: it's donating it to the newly formed Open 3D Foundation for release and continued development under a permissive open-source licence.
[Link] DARPA flings cash at FENCE — a smart camera that only sends pics when pixels change
Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com
The USA’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced it will fund development of a new type of “event-based” camera that only transmits information about pixels that have changed.
[Link] Not for children: Audacity fans drop the f-bomb after privacy agreement changes
Read: 9/7/2021 www.theregister.com
A few more litres of accelerant were poured onto Audacity critics' fire late last week as an update to the sound editor's privacy agreement seeped out to the consternation of users.
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[Link] How Apple’s AirTag turns us into unwitting spies in a vast surveillance network
Read: 17/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apple has launched the latest version of its operating system, iOS 14.5, which features the much-anticipated app tracking transparency function, bolstering the tech giant’s privacy credentials. But iOS 14.5 also introduced support for the new Apple AirTag, which risks doing the opposite.
[Link] The Healing Power of Javascript
Read: 7/4/2021 www.wired.com
A little over a year ago, as the Covid-19 lockdowns were beginning to fan out across the globe, most folks grasped for toilet paper and canned food. The thing I reached for: A search function. The purpose of the search function was somewhat irrelevant. I simply needed to code.
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[Link] Why Red Hat killed CentOS—a CentOS board member speaks
Read: 29/1/2021 arstechnica.com
This morning, The Register's Tim Anderson published excerpts of an interview with the CentOS project's Brian Exelbierd. Exelbierd is a member of the CentOS board and its official liaison with Red Hat.