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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] Facebook Github Repo Spammed with Messages Supporting Russia
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
The messages viewed by Motherboard are in English and Mandarin. “The Rakshasa people will surely kill the hypocritical European and American robbers! False liberty and democracy make me sick!” one message written in Mandarin reads. “I heard you support the Nazis” another reads.
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[Link] Spotify’s attempt to use the Facebook playbook over Joe Rogan won’t wash
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Two decades ago, the late and much-lamented David Bowie said something that was eerily prophetic. “Music itself,” he observed, “is going to become like running water or electricity.
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[Link] Hack The Web Without A Browser
Read: 19/1/2022 hackaday.com
It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can load the whole page via HTTP and parse it. Or you can use some tools to “scrape” the site.
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[Link] I Can't Stop Playing This Wikipedia History Game
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
WikiTrivia is a deceptively simple game that has consumed my entire morning. Wordle is fun, but it’s over quickly. WikiTrivia you can play over and over again. Players sort random events in history along a timeline.
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[Link] Holding onto a teenage email address: ‘The lawyer raised her eyebrow when she saw’
Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Louise is an Oompa Loompa. She has been an Oompa Loompa for more than 15 years. “It’s too much hassle to change it,” Louise tells me. Most of Louise’s internet presence is linked to the Willy Wonka-inspired email address she picked as a teenager. And she’s not the only one.
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[Link] Adobe brings a simplified Photoshop to the web
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Adobe is bringing Photoshop and Illustrator to the web, letting you make changes to documents hosted in the cloud without having to download them and open up the app.
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[Link] Deep dive into Node.js Architecture
Read: 7/11/2021 dev.to
In this article, we are going to deep dive into Node.js architecture and understand the asynchronous nature of Node.js. Let's dive into it.
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[Link] A Treasure Trove of Furry History Is Available on the Internet Archive
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Internet Archive is full of gifts: malware museums, secret public domain books, random VHS tape collections, basically any esoteric interest you can think of, there's probably an archive collection of it, built by volunteers who are just really into that thing.
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[Link] The Gamers Who Regularly Stream to No One
Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com
Alex has been streaming for an average of six viewers for nearly three years. Alex, who goes by cobaltgear on Twitch, has been streaming mostly pre-2010 games from his California home since 2017. The numbers tend to vary.
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[Link] StormCrawler demonstrates the power of open source
Read: 15/8/2021 cameraforensics.com
We sat down with our team member Julien Nioche, resident web crawling and big data expert and the developer of the open-source project ‘StormCrawler’.
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