Medium’s technology blog OneZero reports that many websites today use a service that collects all of your mouse movements, enabling “replays” of every move. “What surprised me was that the software even recorded when I shook my mouse around while deciding what to click on. It felt like observing digital body language.” Session replay services have been around for over a…
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Will February’s full moon be a supermoon?
The full moon on February 9, 2020, ranks as the 4th-closest (and therefore the 4th-largest) full moon of 2020, but is it a supermoon? Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/will-februarys-full-moon-be-a-supermoon…
Met Police To Deploy Facial Recognition Cameras
The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally for the first time on London streets. From a report: The cameras will be in use for five to six hours at a time, with bespoke lists of suspects wanted for serious and violent crimes drawn up each time. Police say the cameras identified 70% of suspects but…
Boeing’s New 777X, the World’s Largest Twin-Engine Jet, Completes Maiden Flight
Today Boeing’s new 777X aircraft completed its maiden flight, reports CNBC:
The plane is the largest twin-engine jet ever built and has a wingspan so wide — more than 235 feet — it features folding wingtips that reduce that width by more than 20 feet so the plane can fit into various airport taxiways and gates. The 777X-9 is slightly longer than…
Open Source Initiative Co-Founder Bruce Perens Resigns, Citing Move Toward License ‘That Isn’t Freedom Respecting’
Bruce Perens (Slashdot reader #3872) co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond in 1998. But on Thursday Perens posted “it seems to me that the organization is rather enthusiastically headed toward accepting a license that isn’t freedom respecting. Fine, do it without me, please. “I asked Patrick to cancel my membership, and I would have unsubscribed from OSI lists, including…
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts
Security researcher Ibrahim Balic said he has matched 17 million phone numbers to Twitter user accounts by exploiting a flaw in Twitter’s Android app. TechCrunch reports: Ibrahim Balic found that it was possible to upload entire lists of generated phone numbers through Twitter’s contacts upload feature. “If you upload your phone number, it fetches user data in return,” he told TechCrunch….
A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Info of Over 3,000 Ring Users
The log-in credentials for 3,672 Ring camera owners were compromised this week, exposing log-in emails, passwords, time zones, and the names people give to specific Ring cameras, which are often the same as camera locations, such as “bedroom” or “front door.” BuzzFeed News reports: Using the log-in email and password, an intruder could access a Ring customer’s home address, telephone number,…
Microsoft Will Shut Down To-do App Wunderlist on May 6
Over two and a half years after Microsoft said it’d one day kill to-do service Wunderlist in favor of its own To Do app, it has revealed when it’ll drop the ax: May 6th. From a report: After that time, Wunderlist’s to-do lists won’t sync anymore and you’ll have a limited time to export lists from there into To Do. As…
‘Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?’
ProPublica has determined that dozens of state and local agencies have purchased “SCAN” training from a company called LSI for reviewing a suspect’s written statements — even though there’s no scientific evidence that it works. Local, state and federal agencies from the Louisville Metro Police Department to the Michigan State Police to the U.S. State Department have paid for SCAN training….
‘Laziness Has Won’: Apostrophe Society Admits Its Defeat
A society dedicated to preserving the “much-abused” apostrophe is to be shut down as its chairman said “ignorance and laziness” had won. From a report: John Richards, who worked in journalism for much of his career, started the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001 after he retired. Now 96, Richards is calling time on the society, which lists the three simple rules…