Comment Re:WHY ISNT THAT THE DEFAULT? (Score 1) 36
Or just proof of desperation.
Comment The first time I saw face id on a phone... (Score 1) 58
The first time I saw Face ID on a phone I took a picture of my friend framed about the same way and then pointed the picture at his locked iphone and it unlocked just fine.
I am told it now uses IR and other unstated functions to be more secure, but I haven trusted any face ID on any device so far, and neither has my friend.
Comment Run/C from 1985 still works too. (Score 2) 28
I still have my original copy on floppy disk.
According to the internet archive, Run/C 1.20 by Age of Reason Co. Publication date 1985-04-26
Comment The only one I want recapping anything for me (Score 1) 23
The only one I want recapping anything for me is Luis played by Michael Peña.
Comment Re:I never did get the business model (Score 2) 39
Any area with poor broadband is a place you will still find dvd rental places.
Comment What browser allows (Score 1) 1
What browser allows a website to stuff the clipboard and ffs why?
Submission + - Researcher wins award for debunking 'blue zones (san.com) 1
schwit1 writes: Researcher, Saul Justin Newman, was given an Ig Nobel Prize on Sept. 12 for his work on debunking “blue zones.” He found the phenomenon is actually based on fraudulent birth certificates, bad data and unscientific measurements.
The concept of blue zones had given people the idea that to live a healthier life, they must eat and exercise like the people in towns with unusual amounts of people who live to be 100.
Over the last decade, Newman tracked down 80% of the world’s supercentenarians, which are people aged 110 and older. He found that almost none have a birth certificate and some have multiple recorded birth dates.
Newman also discovered that pension fraud is extremely common in the blue zone areas. He cited that most of the supercentenarians who have turned out to be alive in government records are actually dead.
The concept of blue zones had given people the idea that to live a healthier life, they must eat and exercise like the people in towns with unusual amounts of people who live to be 100.
Over the last decade, Newman tracked down 80% of the world’s supercentenarians, which are people aged 110 and older. He found that almost none have a birth certificate and some have multiple recorded birth dates.
Newman also discovered that pension fraud is extremely common in the blue zone areas. He cited that most of the supercentenarians who have turned out to be alive in government records are actually dead.
Submission + - PowerShell Phish using fake CAPTCHA (krebsonsecurity.com) 1
sinij writes:
Clicking the “I’m not a robot” button generates a pop-up message asking the user to take three sequential steps to prove their humanity. Step 1 involves simultaneously pressing the keyboard key with the Windows icon and the letter "R," which opens a Windows "Run" prompt that will execute any specified program that is already installed on the system.
Step 2 asks the user to press the “CTRL” key and the letter “V” at the same time, which pastes malicious code from the site’s virtual clipboard.
Step 3 — pressing the “Enter” key — causes Windows to launch a PowerShell command, and then fetch and execute a malicious file from github[-]scanner[.]com called “l6e[.]exe.”
Submission + - UK's National Grid blames old computer systems for sidelining batteries (ft.com)
AmiMoJo writes: Ageing computer systems and an outdated electricity network means National Grid is often unable to use batteries designed to deliver cheap green power, it has admitted. Batteries were being overlooked by Britain’s network operator up to 30 per cent of the times when they are cheaper than other power sources, Craig Dyke, from National Grid’s electricity system operator, said.
Dyke’s comments came in response to a letter from four leading battery storage groups which said National Grid’s “electricity system operator” or ESO division was making the country’s power costlier and dirtier by failing to use their technology properly. “Consumers are paying more, clean renewable energy is being wasted, and fossil fuel generation is being used instead,” they said. The groups claimed batteries were being overlooked up to 90 per cent of the time in a way that favoured gas-fired power plants, which emit tonnes of carbon dioxide and can be more expensive to run.
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Dyke’s comments came in response to a letter from four leading battery storage groups which said National Grid’s “electricity system operator” or ESO division was making the country’s power costlier and dirtier by failing to use their technology properly. “Consumers are paying more, clean renewable energy is being wasted, and fossil fuel generation is being used instead,” they said. The groups claimed batteries were being overlooked up to 90 per cent of the time in a way that favoured gas-fired power plants, which emit tonnes of carbon dioxide and can be more expensive to run.
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Comment Well, there's your problem. As usual. (Score 3, Insightful) 76
FTA:
The unusually vivid language in its complaint suggests the telco is angry. On Thursday, we may all learn if AT&T alone in its anger. That's when Broadcom announces its quarterly results, after previously offering guidance that VMware revenue will rise every quarter.
The enshitification of all things. Driven as always by wallstreet demanding rising revenues quarter over quarter over quarter over quarter, forever.
The unusually vivid language in its complaint suggests the telco is angry. On Thursday, we may all learn if AT&T alone in its anger. That's when Broadcom announces its quarterly results, after previously offering guidance that VMware revenue will rise every quarter.
The enshitification of all things. Driven as always by wallstreet demanding rising revenues quarter over quarter over quarter over quarter, forever.
Comment Re:It dosen't seem that evil to me. (Score 1) 5
You apparently missed the part where it said
designed to help sites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about individual people.
designed to help sites understand how their ads perform without collecting data about individual people.
Comment It dosen't seem that evil to me. (Score 1) 5
Firefox's "learn more" page
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.mozilla.org%2Fen...
FTP:
>Mozilla is prototyping this feature in order to inform an emerging Web standard designed to help sites understand how their ads perform without collecting data >about individual people. By offering sites a non-invasive alternative to cross-site tracking, we hope to achieve a significant reduction in this harmful practice across the web.
Seems like the elimination of cross site cookies is a privacy enhancing idea.
Submission + - 'Trojan Source' flaw could result in covert app poisoning (scmagazine.com)
spatwei writes: A pair of researchers from Cambridge University in the UK said that a condition dubbed "Trojan Source" allows attackers to insert malicious source code which can evade detection by security reviewers. ...
In particular, the researchers found that the Unicode bidirectional algorithm (Bidi) can be manipulated to hide potentially malicious code. Intended to allow interoperability between left to right languages (such as English or Russian) and right to left languages (such as Arabic and Hebrew), Bidi instructions allow the order of text to be switched as needed.
What the duo discovered was that in some cases the Bidi instructions can also be concealed within the source code. This allows for the appearance of the source code to be manipulated in a way that would likely evade detection when a review conducts quality or security checks.
In some cases, the manipulation would result in the way instructions are executed, such as "early return" attacks that end the operation prematurely. In other cases, the Bidi manipulation would allow entire chunks of code (such as security measures or input validation) to be read as comments and not executed.
In particular, the researchers found that the Unicode bidirectional algorithm (Bidi) can be manipulated to hide potentially malicious code. Intended to allow interoperability between left to right languages (such as English or Russian) and right to left languages (such as Arabic and Hebrew), Bidi instructions allow the order of text to be switched as needed.
What the duo discovered was that in some cases the Bidi instructions can also be concealed within the source code. This allows for the appearance of the source code to be manipulated in a way that would likely evade detection when a review conducts quality or security checks.
In some cases, the manipulation would result in the way instructions are executed, such as "early return" attacks that end the operation prematurely. In other cases, the Bidi manipulation would allow entire chunks of code (such as security measures or input validation) to be read as comments and not executed.
Submission + - Federal Court Blocks Net Neutrality Rules (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A federal appeals court has agreed to halt the reinstatement of net neutrality rules until August 5th, while the court considers whether more permanent action is justified. It’s the latest setback in a long back and forth on net neutrality — the principle that internet service providers (ISPs) should not be able to block or throttle internet traffic in a discriminatory manner. The Federal Communications Commission has sought to achieve this by reclassifying ISPs under Title II of the Communications Act, which gives the agency greater regulatory oversight. The Democratic-led agency enacted net neutrality rules under the Obama administration, only for those rules to be repealed under former President Donald Trump’s FCC. The current FCC, which has three Democratic and two Republican commissioners, voted in April to bring back net neutrality. The 3–2 vote was divided along party lines.
Broadband providers have since challenged the FCC’s action, which is potentially more vulnerable after the Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down Chevron deference — a legal doctrine that instructed courts to defer to an agency’s expert decisions except in a very narrow range of circumstances. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matt Schettenhelm said in a report prior to the court’s ruling that he doesn’t expect the FCC to prevail in court, in large part due to the demise of Chevron. A panel of judges for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said in an order that a temporary “administrative stay is warranted” while it considers the merits of the broadband providers’ request for a permanent stay. The administrative stay will be in place until August 5th. In the meantime, the court requested the parties provide additional briefs about the application of National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services to this lawsuit.
Broadband providers have since challenged the FCC’s action, which is potentially more vulnerable after the Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down Chevron deference — a legal doctrine that instructed courts to defer to an agency’s expert decisions except in a very narrow range of circumstances. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matt Schettenhelm said in a report prior to the court’s ruling that he doesn’t expect the FCC to prevail in court, in large part due to the demise of Chevron. A panel of judges for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said in an order that a temporary “administrative stay is warranted” while it considers the merits of the broadband providers’ request for a permanent stay. The administrative stay will be in place until August 5th. In the meantime, the court requested the parties provide additional briefs about the application of National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services to this lawsuit.
Submission + - Radar Images Suggest There's a Cave/Tunnel on the Moon (gizmodo.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: Gizmodo is reporting that a team of researchers think they’ve discovered a cave on the Moon in radar images of the lunar surface, which they posit could be a future site for an established human presence on our rocky satellite.
The tunnel is in the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility) pit, the deepest known pit on the Moon. (If the name is familiar to you, the Sea of Tranquility is where the Apollo 11 mission landed in 1969.)
The pit formed due to a lava tube’s roof collapse or a collapse of a void structure created by tectonic processes. To look for potential cave structures within the pit, the researchers studied side-looking radar images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Mini-RF instrument between 2009 and 2011. The team then conducted 3D radar simulations of potential geometries of the pit and its cave, to determine that the brightness they saw in radar images could be due to subsurface features.
Ultimately, the team determined there is a tunnel in the pit that is between 98 feet (30 meters) long and 262ft (80m) long. The tunnel is roughly 148ft (45m) wide and is either flat or inclined with a maximum steepness of 45 degrees. Their research was published today in Nature Astronomy.
The tunnel is in the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility) pit, the deepest known pit on the Moon. (If the name is familiar to you, the Sea of Tranquility is where the Apollo 11 mission landed in 1969.)
The pit formed due to a lava tube’s roof collapse or a collapse of a void structure created by tectonic processes. To look for potential cave structures within the pit, the researchers studied side-looking radar images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Mini-RF instrument between 2009 and 2011. The team then conducted 3D radar simulations of potential geometries of the pit and its cave, to determine that the brightness they saw in radar images could be due to subsurface features.
Ultimately, the team determined there is a tunnel in the pit that is between 98 feet (30 meters) long and 262ft (80m) long. The tunnel is roughly 148ft (45m) wide and is either flat or inclined with a maximum steepness of 45 degrees. Their research was published today in Nature Astronomy.
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