Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
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Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more
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Samsung Galaxy Ring review: great hardware, long battery life, and requires no subscription, but it's Android only and health tracking accuracy is a mixed bag (Victoria Song/The Verge)
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Samsung Galaxy Ring review: keeping you in Samsungβs orbit
The $399.99 Samsung Galaxy Ring isnβt a revolutionary smart ring, but it does a good job of convincing you to stay within Samsungβs gadget ecosystem.Victoria Song (The Verge)
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RuskΓ© ΓΊrady ΓΊdajne nenaΕ‘li ΕΎiadne dΓ΄kazy o nΓ‘silnom zΓ‘pase alebo kriminΓ‘lnom motΓve. l.rockosbasilisk.com/5ajXm
X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
Link: blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesignβ¦
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4β¦
X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm
X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its π« Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.Keith Broni (Emojipedia)
Have you ever checked your weather app and wondered what 'chance of rain' really means? βοΈ Does it mean 20% of the area will get wet, or raindrops will be 20% smaller than usual? Or something completely different?
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26 Security Hardening Tips for Modern Linux Servers
Here are 25 useful tips and tricks to secure your Linux system. We hope these tips and tricks will help you secure your system.LinuxToday
CrowdStrike says the problematic July 19 software update that affected 8.5M Windows devices was deployed into production due to "a bug in the Content Validator" (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
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CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made
Something called 'Content Validator' did not validate the content, and the rest is historySimon Sharwood (The Register)
Forget security β Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billiβ¦
#theregister #IT
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From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android
Sebastian Zimmeck, Nishant Aggarwal, Zachary Liu, Konrad Kollnig
arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14938
arXiv:2407.14938v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Apps and their integrated third party libraries often collect a variety of data from people to show them personalized ads. This practice is often privacy-invasive. Since 2013, Google has therefore allowed users to limit ad tracking on Android via system settings. Further, under the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), apps must honor opt-outs from ad tracking under the Global Privacy Control (GPC). The efficacy of these two methods to limit ad tracking has not been studied in prior work. Our legal and technical analysis details how the GPC applies to mobile apps and how it could be integrated directly into Android, thereby developing a reference design for GPC on Android. Our empirical analysis of 1,896 top-ranked Android apps shows that both the Android system-level opt-out and the GPC signal rarely restrict ad tracking. In our view, deleting the AdID and opting out under the CCPA has the same meaning. Thus, the current AdID setting and APIs should be evolved towards GPC and integrated into Android's Privacy Sandbox.
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No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1
A story that's been persistently making the rounds since the CrowdStrike event is that while several airline companies were affected in one way or another, Southwest Airlines escaped the mayhem because they were still using windows 3.1. It's a great story that fits the current zeitgeist about technology and its role in society, un
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TIL that a twitch streamer and youtuber by the name of Masayoshi decided to test something out on his livestream a year ago telling people in chat to type βim 12β and, long story short over 100 twitch accounts were perma banned for βbeing underageβ thanks to twitchβs bots thinking that were underage
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#til #todayilearned
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the '12' incident
The day I got half of my chat permanently banned from Twitchexpand for linksSocialsβΊ Twitch- https://www.twitch.tv/masayoshiβΊ Discord- http://www.discord.gg/...YouTube
Yes, yess, yeeessss....
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We have landed. Debian Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers have started to arrive for this years Debian Developers Conference held in Busan, South Korea. #debian #korea #DebConf24 #debiankorea
Debian Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers have started to arrive for this years Debian Developers Conference held in Busan, South Korea. #debian #korea #DebConf24 #debiankoreamicronews.debian.org
This dumb password rule is from SecureAccess Washington.
Central authentication for all Washington State services
(DoL, ESD, etc).
Password must have *exactly* 10 characters, but form happily
lets you enter more and only throws errors after submit,
providing no useful feedback.
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#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules
SecureAccess Washington - Dumb Password Rules
Central authentication for all Washington State services (DoL, ESD, etc). Password must have *exactly* 10 characters, but form happily lets you enter more and only throws errors after submit, providing no useful feedback.dumbpasswordrules.com
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2024)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Dennis van Dok (dvandok) Peter Wienemann (wiene) Quentin Lejard (valde) Sven Geuer (sge) Taavi VÀÀnΓ€nen (taavi) Hilmar Preusse (hille42) Matthias Geiger (werdahiasβ¦Debian Project
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
Link: github.com/veggiedefender/openβ¦
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4β¦
GitHub - veggiedefender/open-and-shut: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut - veggiedefender/open-and-shutGitHub
All The Technology Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Predicted Correctly
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most inventive and whacky sci-fi properties around, and it's predicted quite a few real-world technologies. #press
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All The Technology Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Predicted Correctly
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most inventive and whacky sci-fi properties around, and it's predicted quite a few real-world technologies.Nathan P. Gibson (SlashGear)
Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
CALLY: [V.O. scream] Blake.
[Space. Exterior. A freight ship called Scorpio is in flight. Scorpio interior: flight deck. A blonde man is the only occupant of the flight deck. His name is Dorian. He bends over to check something on the ship's instruments. Finished, he moves around the flight deck.]
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Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.Blakes7Bot Search
This dumb password rule is from Virgin Media.
Your password needs to be between 8 and 10 characters long, with no
spaces, and must contain only numbers and letters. The first character
must be a letter.
Feb 2020 Update: policy remains the same but the description is hidden
leaving you to guess the acceptable length/chars. Users are now lef...
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Virgin Media - Dumb Password Rules
Your password needs to be between 8 and 10 characters long, with no spaces, and must contain only numbers and letters. The first character must be a letter.dumbpasswordrules.com
Reducing 3D Printer Waste: 10 Tips to Minimizing Filament "Poop" Β« Fabbaloo
After our story about increasing concerns about 3D printer waste, the question becomes, βwhat should I do about it?βKerry Stevenson (Fabbaloo)
Yemen says a ship has repaired the subsea AAE-1 cable, linking Asia and Europe, in the Red Sea, and remains in the water to repair the Seacom and EIG cables (Bloomberg)
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Yemen says a ship has repaired the subsea AAE-1 cable, linking Asia and Europe, in the Red Sea, and remains in the water to repair the Seacom and EIG cables
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