In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work. From a report: Police in China’s Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means: financial records, travel information, vehicle registrations, social media, and surveillance camera footage. To make sense…
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So How Good Is Edge on Linux?
“No one asked Microsoft to port its Edge browser to Linux,” writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet, adding “Indeed, very few people asked for Edge on Windows. “But, here it is. So, how good — or not — is it..?” The new release comes ready to run on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE Linux distributions… Since I’ve been benchmarking web browsers…
NASA’s Planet Patrol wants you to join the search for exoplanets
Do you want to be a planet-hunter? NASA has launched a new citizen science website called Planet Patrol where volunteers can help search for exoplanets in data from the TESS space telescope. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/exoplanets-nasas-planet-patrol-citizen-science…
How to Write an Effective Resume
In this guide, you’ll learn how to create an effective resume. You’ll learn strategies for tailoring your resume to the role you’re pursuing, and how to effectively present your skills and experience—whether you’re a new-job seeker or a mid-career professional switching to a new field. You will learn about templates and formats and understand the […]
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Bridgefy, the Messenger Promoted For Mass Protests, Is a Privacy Disaster
Bridgefy, a popular messaging app for conversing with one another when internet connections are heavily congested or completely shut down, is a privacy disaster that can allow moderately-skilled hackers to take a host of nefarious actions against users, according to a paper published on Monday. The findings come after the company has for months touted the app as a safe and…
New Imaging System Creates Pictures By Measuring Time
An anonymous reader writes: Photos and videos are usually produced by capturing photons — the building blocks of light—with digital sensors. For instance, digital cameras consist of millions of pixels that form images by detecting the intensity and color of the light at every point of space. 3-D images can then be generated either by positioning two or more cameras around…
Stack Overflow Explores Why Developers Love TypeScript More Than Python
Stack Overflow asked 65,000 programmers for their favorite programming language, and this year Microsoft’s TypeScript knocked Python from the #2 spot. So they interviewed Microsoft’s principal engineering lead for the language “to find out what about TypeScript makes it so dang lovable.” Q: Do you remember why the team came up with TypeScript, why you wanted to release something like this?…
Bryan Lunduke Explains Why Linux Sucks in 2020
Roblimo once called it “a tradition, not just a speech” — Bryan Lunduke’s annual “Linux Sucks” presentations at various Linux conferences. But before you get too upset, in his 2014 interview with Slashdot Lunduke admitted “I love Linux, I have made my whole life around Linux. I work for Linux companies. I write for Linux magazines, but it really blows…” This…
Are We on the Cusp of a Metaverse, the Next Version of the Internet?
The Washington Post describes it as “the next internet.” Wikipedia defines it as “a collective virtual shared space…including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the Internet.” But it was Neal Stephenson who named it “the metaverse” in his 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash. Are we closer to seeing it happen? The Washington Post reports:
In the past month,…
America Now Has Most COVID-19 Deaths in the World — 20% of All Fatalities
An anonymous reader quotes Reuters:
U.S. deaths due to the coronavirus surpassed 20,000 on Saturday, the highest reported number in the world, according to a Reuters tally, although there are signs the pandemic might be nearing a peak. Italy has the second most reported deaths at 19,468 and Spain is in third place with 16,353. The United States has five times the…