Clubhouse‘s appeal lies in its off-the-record nature where users can voice chat with each other candidly, in ephemeral ‘rooms.’ But what if bad actors could snoop upon your live conversations? A report from Bloomberg noted that over the weekend, an unidentified user was able to crack the service and listen to conversations. The user, believed to be based
Read MoreWith innumerable microcontroller boards on the market it’s sure that there will be one for every conceivable application or user. Among them are some seriously tiny ones, but this wasn’t enough for [Alun Morris]. Wanting to see how small he could make an ATtiny board without a custom PCB, he took a SOIC-8 version of
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Read MoreReuters: China finalizes rules on banks’ internet loan businesses, affecting Alibaba and others, setting new capital requirements, must be complied with by July 17, 2022 — SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s bank regulator on Saturday tightened requirements on the internet loan business of commercial banks … China finalizes rules on banks' internet loan businesses, affecting Alibaba
Read MoreBloomberg: Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website — – The app’s creators had been warned user data was vulnerable — An unidentified user streamed audio chats to their own website Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and
Read MoreImage: Hayden Smith / speedbird5280 (Instagram) Airlines in Japan and the US have grounded dozens of Boeing 777 aircraft after the dramatic engine failure that United Airlines flight 328 experienced over Denver this weekend. According to the National Transportation Safety Board’s ongoing investigation, two fan blades on the plane’s number 2 engine had developed fractures.
Read MoreIs there any garment so freeing to wear as a skirt, assuming it isn’t skin tight? (Well, unless that’s your thing — we won’t judge.) Skirts and dresses are pretty darn freeing compared to pants, so it’s too bad that most of them come without pockets. And it’s really too bad that pretty much all
Read MoreThe Miz is your WWE Champion. Really. WWE Elimination Chamber 2021: Results, Miz cashes in, full recap and analysis – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou would think the entire world would know how Zoom works by now. Lawyers can be cats, congressmen are sometimes inverted, but pants are not actually optional. That didn’t keep the Oakley Union Elementary School District’s board of trustees from badmouthing parents during a public WebEx call — suggesting that parents just “want their babysitters
Read MoreBen Smith / New York Times: Russian investigative journalism is flourishing alongside “probiv”, the buying of data on phone calls, cell location, or air travel off Telegram or the dark web — A new wave of news outlets has used conventional, and unconventional, methods to pierce the veil of Putin’s power. Russian investigative journalism is
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Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, is planning an IPO that could value it at ~$20B; in Feb. 2020 it was valued at $4.9B — Toast taps Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to underwrite a possible listing later this year — Toast Inc. is planning … Sources: Toast, a cloud-based
Read MoreA joke? Maybe. But within months Dogecoin was one of the world’s most highly valued cryptocurrencies. Dogecoin: The meme that became a real cryptocurrency – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIsrael Adesanya moves up in weight for his most compelling contest yet. UFC 259 Blachowicz vs. Adesanya: Start time, how to watch online and full fight card – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWell, that was quite a show! The Perseverance rover arrived on Mars Thursday. Don’t tell the boss, but we spent the afternoon watching the coverage in the house on the big TV rather than slaving away in the office. It was worth it; for someone who grew up watching Jules Bergman and Frank Reynolds cover
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge There’s a popular stereotype that Apple’s computers are largely immune to malware. Not only is is that incorrect, it appears that sophisticated hacker(s) might have been toying with the idea of a heist or drop nasty enough they’d have needed to cover their tracks. As Ars Technica reports,
Read MoreCode will not apply to government content, political advertising, satirical work, or other journalistic pieces that are governed by an existing Australian law. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, TikTok, and Twitter adopt Aussie misinformation code Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreLive on the WWE Network right now. WWE Elimination Chamber 2021: Live updates, results and match ratings – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAnthony Ha / TechCrunch: Abound, a wholesale marketplace for both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers that launched in Oct. 2019, raises $22.9M Series A led by Left Lane Capital — Abound, an online marketplace that helps independent retailers stock their shelves with new products from up-and-coming brands … Abound, a wholesale marketplace for both e-commerce and
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Read MoreAshlee Vance / Bloomberg: Profile of Youyang Gu, a 27-year-old data scientist whose ML model most accurately predicted COVID-19 death totals which the CDC used on its forecasting website — Spring 2020 brought with it the arrival of the celebrity statistical model. As the public tried to gauge how big a deal … Profile of
Read MoreSamsung has been toying with AR glasses for years, most recently trotting out an extremely basic set of image-projecting goggles on the CES 2020 stage, but I’ve never seen the company suggest it might like to build an actually ambitious augmented reality wearable computing device — until perhaps today. WalkingCat, a fairly reliable source of
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