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9to5mac.com 6mo ago

Firehound is a repository of App Store apps exposing data from users

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Seattle becomes first US city to ban caste-based discrimination

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airmail.news 3y ago

Vinit Bodas, Girish Bhakoo, and the Hedge Fund Scandal In Greenwich, CT

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www.nraila.org 4y ago

California leaks personal data of concealed carry permit holders

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

Ex-Amazon Cloud Worker Convicted of Capital One Hack

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www.commondreams.org 4y ago

Calls to 'Stop the Deal' as US Military Contractor Moves to Buy NSO Group

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www.cs.columbia.edu 4y ago

Bugs in Our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning [pdf]

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github.com 6y ago

Slick and responsive credit card number form component in Vue.js

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blog.apnic.net 6y ago

What do we know about an IP address?

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Heavily processed food like ready meals and ice-cream linked to early death

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www.reuters.com 8y ago

Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat

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science.sciencemag.org 8y ago

Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers

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www.interactivebrokers.com 8y ago

Dangers of Clearing Cryptocurrency in Same Organization as Other Products [pdf]

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www.malwaretech.com 8y ago

Creating a Simple Free Malware Analysis Environment

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medium.com 8y ago

Private Browsing Without a VPN

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www.unhackthevote.com 8y ago

Trump’s Connections to Russia – They Are Just a Ping Away

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support.apple.com 8y ago

New iOS 11.1 update fixes KRACK only for iPhone 7, early 2016 iPad Pro and later

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www.dhs.gov 8y ago

DHS Issues BOD Banning Kaspersky from Federal Government

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www.strongtowns.org 8y ago

Does your Town need its own Currency?

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www.sec.gov 9y ago

SEC Files Fraud Charges in Bitcoin and Office Space Investment Schemes

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www.theguardian.com 9y ago

UK dealer charged in US over multimillion-dollar fake Bitcoin site scam

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www.theguardian.com 9y ago

Revealed: Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists

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www.gierad.com 9y ago

Synthetic sensors: General purpose sensing (PDF paper by Gierad Laput et al)

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thenextweb.com 10y ago

SkinTrack turns your skin into a touch interface for smartwatches

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krebsonsecurity.com 10y ago

IRS: 390K More Victims of IRS.Gov Weakness

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news.nationalgeographic.com 12y ago

Oldest Body of Seawater Found in Giant Crater

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www.h-online.com 13y ago

Adobe acknowledges critical hole in ColdFusion: will fix CVE-2013-3336 in a week

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toucharcade.com 13y ago

MAME is back in the Apple AppStore (for now) with Gridlee

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arstechnica.com 13y ago

Graphene foam batteries charge quickly

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Ti-84 Evo 3 months ago

Numworks is so much better. According to kids that have access to Ti and HP graphing calculators.

The hardware and software design similarities between this Evo and Numworks is a strong endorsement.

An effort led by security research lab CovertLabs is actively uncovering troves of (mostly) AI-related App Store apps that leak and expose user data, including names, emails, and chat history.

Most apps on Firehound appear to expose data via improperly secured databases or cloud storage, and many listings disclose the underlying data schemas and record counts.

Automerge 3.0 12 months ago

The performance improvements are impressive:

In Automerge 3.0, we've rearchitected the library so that it also uses the compressed representation at runtime. This has achieved huge memory savings. For example, pasting Moby Dick into an Automerge 2 document consumes 700Mb of memory, in Automerge 3 it only consumes 1.3Mb!

Finally, for documents with large histories load times can be much much faster (we recently had an example of a document which hadn't loaded after 17 hours loading in 9 seconds!).

From the terms of use:

To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your API input and output. Google takes steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. This includes disconnecting this data from your Google Account, API key, and Cloud project before reviewers see or annotate it. Do not submit sensitive, confidential, or personal information to the Unpaid Services.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms#data-use-unpaid

By the majority in Congress voting to block any attempts to challenge the executive branch.

Judges are acting to stay executive orders, but judicial processes are deliberately slow and the current administration seated several current Supreme Court judges.

Civil disobedience and mass unrest seems inevitable when the rule of law and balance of powers is systemically undermined.

Physical cards also allow you to practice shuffling and card handling in general improving dexterity.

Electronic cards would allow you to play more widely (presumably we all don’t walk around with a deck in our pockets). But I don’t often get into spontaneous card games. They are usually planned and at a location with easy access to decks.

True hacker spirit embodied in this project. Very well done!

“So there was a whole study to make the LEDs simulate the glow of the original lamps. And then we found out that different lamps from different years had a different glow time. Measurements were done, math was applied, but we added lamp glow. More CPU time is spent on simulating that than on simulating the original CPU!”

Tailscale [0] says the private keys never leave the device.

“Security

Tailscale and WireGuard offer identical point-to-point traffic encryption.

Using Tailscale introduces a dependency on Tailscale’s security. Using WireGuard directly does not. It is important to note that a device’s private key never leaves the device and thus Tailscale cannot decrypt network traffic. Our client code is open source, so you can confirm that yourself.”

0. https://tailscale.com/compare/wireguard

Apparently an indirect association. From [0]:

Fall 2021

Holden Karnofsky resigns from the Board, citing a potential conflict because his wife, Daniela Amodei, is helping start Anthropic, a major OpenAI competitor, with her brother Dario Amodei. (They all live(d) together.) The exact date of Holden’s resignation is unknown; there was no contemporaneous press release.

Between October and November 2021, Holden was quietly removed from the list of Board Directors on the OpenAI website, and Helen was added (Discussion Source [1]).

0. https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board

1. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fmDFytmxwX9qBgcaX/...

It doesn’t look like the moved away from gVisor due to security reasons. “We were able to achieve these improvements because the second generation execution environment is based on a micro VM. This means that unlike the first generation execution environment, which uses gVisor, a container running in the second generation execution environment has access to a full Linux kernel.”

This article states as much: “Costco loses only 0.1% of revenue to theft annually. For context, that's 90% lower than Walmart's shrink rate.”