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

By Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

^Techmeme

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 Samsung’s orbit

The $399.99 Samsung Galaxy Ring isn’t a revolutionary smart ring, but it does a good job of convincing you to stay within Samsung’s gadget ecosystem.

^{Victoria Song (The Verge)}

Popredná ruská ekonómka Valentina Bondarenková zomrela po páde z okna

Ruské úrady údajne nenašli žiadne dôkazy o násilnom zápase alebo kriminálnom motíve. l.rockosbasilisk.com/5ajXm

Popredná ruská ekonómka Valentina Bondarenková zomrela po páde z okna

^{TASR (Aktuality.sk)}

X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

Link: blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesign…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm

X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 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? ☔️ Does it mean 20% of the area will get wet, or raindrops will be 20% smaller than usual? Or something completely different?

Watch this video to learn more 👇

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🕐 24/07 15:11

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 history

^{Simon Sharwood (The Register)}

Forget security – 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 billi…
#theregister #IT
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Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

^{Thomas Claburn (The Register)}

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
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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.

From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android

^arXiv.org

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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#Windows

To je snůška kecu jak od nějakého dezolata, ano zla EU může za to že Microsoft neumí udělat APi tak aby to nepodělalo ten jejich shit který nazývá prý operačním systémem ..m

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Microsoft viní z pátečního největšího IT výpadku dějin Evropskou unii | Kurzy.cz

Koncem předminulého desetiletí hrozilo americké firmě vyšetřování a tučné pokuty ze strany Evropské unie, a to kvůli údajně nesoutěžnímu jednání. Takže roku 2009 raději s Bruselem uzavřela dohodu

^{zpravy.kurzy.cz}

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}

Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Link: github.com/veggiedefender/open…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

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-shut

^GitHub

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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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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#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

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}

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

From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

^Techmeme

This dumb password rule is from Banque de Tahiti.

You have to enter your password using this *very* Frenchy keypad. You don't have lowercase letters, the blanks are not spaces but just non-clickable gaps, but as a compensation you have some weird symbols that your keyboard does not have a key for (e.g. `µ`).

No accessible version available.

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#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

Banque de Tahiti - Dumb Password Rules

You have to enter your password using this *very* Frenchy keypad. You don't have lowercase letters, the blanks are not spaces but just non-clickable gaps, but as a compensation you have some weird symbols that your keyboard does not have a key for (e…

^{dumbpasswordrules.com}

Beating the Compiler

Link: mattkeeter.com/blog/2024-07-12…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Thoberson and Niblone mated to produce Bongmusi.
They are a Generation 30 fractal.
They like slow fractals.

If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#generativeArt

Signal plans to roll out a beta version of its desktop apps that tightens the security of how it stores plain text encryption keys, after downplaying the issue (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Signal plans to roll out a beta version of its desktop apps that tightens the security of how it stores plain text encryption keys, after downplaying the issue

By Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.

^Techmeme

SpaceX releases its $599 Starlink Mini portable dish to anyone in the US, available with its $150/month Regional and $50/month Mini Roam services (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

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Starlink Mini is now available for anyone in the US to roam

Starlink Mini is available to anyone in the US. The hardware costs $599 with service starting at $50 per month.

^{Thomas Ricker (The Verge)}

Baltimore bridge collapse survivor details how he climbed onto floating concrete to await rescue (NBC News)

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Baltimore Bridge collapse survivor opens up about losing friends and family in tragic accident

Julio Cervantes Suarez was one of seven construction workers fixing potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed into the Patapsco River.

^{Tom Llamas (NBC News)}