Month: March 2019

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says around $13M in the EOS cryptocurrency has been stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job (Wolfie Zhao/CoinDesk)

Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says around $13M in the EOS cryptocurrency has been stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job  —  South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has had around $13 million in the EOS cryptocurrency stolen in a hack it suspects was an insider job. South Korean

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Printed Perching Pals Proliferate

Anansi in African folktale is a trickster and god of stories, usually taking physical form of a spider. Anansi’s adventures through oral tradition have adapted to the situation of people telling those stories, everything ranging from unseasonable weather to living a life in slavery. How might Anansi adapt to the twenty-first century? [odd_jayy] imagined the

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PR lessons from Boeing’s poor handling of the 737 MAX crisis

Imagine for a second you run the largest aircraft manufacturing company in the world. You have orders worth +$600-billion of an aircraft model that, as of March 10th 2019, has had it’s second tragic crash. The first being mere months earlier. But instead of stepping ahead of the problem, tackling the hard things and taking

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Learn the email and newsletter marketing essentials from this $15 course

If you’re going to do digital marketing, do it right. Jeff Goins knows the ways of business email — and you can learn those ways for yourself with the Effective Email and Newsletter Marketing course. It’s only $14.99, almost 59 percent off, right now from TNW Deals. Learn the email and newsletter marketing essentials from

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No, viewing publicly shared Google Docs don’t reveal your identity

Every day, millions of people use Google Docs to share and collaborate on documents. And when it comes to working on documents online, few tools match the power and versatility of Google Drive and Google Docs. But like all online tools that provide an open environment for many people to share data, Google Docs entails privacy

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Counterpoint: global wireless "hearables" market hit 12.5M units in Q4 2018, with AirPods at 60% market share, but low and mid-tier brands gaining (Liz Lee/Counterpoint Research)

Liz Lee / Counterpoint Research: Counterpoint: global wireless “hearables” market hit 12.5M units in Q4 2018, with AirPods at 60% market share, but low and mid-tier brands gaining  —  Apple was the market leader with its AirPods as premium models continued to dominate the market.  However, mid-tier brands started to gain market share. Counterpoint: global

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Executing A Vehicle Keyless Entry Attack

You read about well-publicised security exploits, but they always seem to involve somebody with a deity’s grasp of whatever technology is being employed, as well as a pile of impossibly exotic equipment. Surely a mere mortal could never do that! Happily, that’s not always the case, and to prove it [Gonçalo Nespral] replicated an attack

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ISPs that block access to sites hosting the Christchurch shooting video set a worrisome precedent that ISPs may put up barriers between customers and content (April Glaser/Slate)

April Glaser / Slate: ISPs that block access to sites hosting the Christchurch shooting video set a worrisome precedent that ISPs may put up barriers between customers and content  —  Facebook and YouTube were right to delete the video shot by the New Zealand shooter.  Internet providers were wrong to try to do it, too.

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Fluorescence Microcope on a Hacker’s Budget

Some of biology’s most visually striking images come from fluorescence microscopes. Their brilliant colors on black look like a neon sign from an empty highway. A brand new fluorescence microscope is beyond a hacker’s budget and even beyond some labs’, but there are ways to upgrade an entry-level scope for the cost of a few

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A look at the numbers behind Amazon's market reach in terms of dollar sales, revenue, units sold, number of visitors and users, and a snapshot of its history (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A look at the numbers behind Amazon’s market reach in terms of dollar sales, revenue, units sold, number of visitors and users, and a snapshot of its history  —  In recent months, talk of regulating or even breaking up Amazon.com, Inc. has moved from the political fringes to the mainstream. A look at the

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Emergency Neighbourhood Communications Courtesy Of HELPER

For many people, phone and Internet connectivity are omnipresent and always available. It’s possible to upload selfies from a Chinese subway, and search for restaurant reviews in most highway towns, all thanks to modern cellular connectivity. However, in emergencies, we’re not always so lucky. If towers fail or user demand grows too large, things can

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Earl of Sandwich and Planet Hollywood restaurant franchise owner admits a breach of its PoS systems where 2M+ credit and debit card details may have been stolen (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Earl of Sandwich and Planet Hollywood restaurant franchise owner admits a breach of its PoS systems where 2M+ credit and debit card details may have been stolen  —  On Feb. 21, 2019, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo after discovering strong evidence … Earl of Sandwich and

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A theory on Apple's AirPower: its overlapping multi-coil design worked in the lab but complying with FCC's rules for safe wireless emissions was too challenging (Craig Lloyd/iFixit)

Craig Lloyd / iFixit: A theory on Apple’s AirPower: its overlapping multi-coil design worked in the lab but complying with FCC’s rules for safe wireless emissions was too challenging  —  In a surprising turn of events, Apple has cancelled its long-awaited AirPower wireless charging mat. A theory on Apple’s AirPower: its overlapping multi-coil design worked

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