An anonymous reader shares a report: Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile. Online profiles describe him as a coffee lover and politics junkie who was raised in a traditional Jewish home. His half dozen freelance editorials and blog posts reveal an active interest in anti-Semitism…
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Several High Profile Twitter Accounts Including Those of Bill Gates and Elon Musk Have Been Hijacked To Tweet Bitcoin Scams
Security researcher Marcus Hutchins reports: A bunch of high profile cryptocurrency Twitter accounts have been hijacked to tweet bitcoin scams. Likely a 3rd party App compromise rather that Twitter itself. People / organizations whose accounts appear to have been hijacked include Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Binance, Apple, Cash app, and Ripple. Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of cryptocurrency market Gemini, offered an explanation…
Enigma Code-Breaking Machine Rebuilt At Cambridge
Cambridge Engineering alumnus Hal Evans has built a fully-functioning replica of a 1930s Polish cyclometer — an electromechanical cryptologic device that was designed to assist in the decryption of German Enigma ciphertext. The replica currently resides in King’s College, Cambridge. TechXplore reports: Work on the hardware-based replica began in 2018, as part of Hal’s fourth year Master’s project under the supervision…
iPhone User Sues Microsoft’s LinkedIn For Spying Through Apple’s ‘Clipboard’
“Microsoft’s LinkedIn was sued by a New York-based iPhone user on Friday for allegedly reading and diverting users’ sensitive content from Apple Inc’s Universal Clipboard application,” reports Reuters. According to Apple’s website, Universal Clipboard allows users to copy text, images, photos, and videos on one Apple device and then paste the content onto another Apple device. According to the lawsuit filed…
Musk Says Tesla Is ‘Very Close’ To Developing Fully Autonomous Vehicles
Tesla’s Elon Musk said the carmaker is on the verge of developing technology to render its vehicles fully capable of driving themselves, repeating a claim he’s made for years but been unable to achieve. From a report: The chief executive officer has long offered exuberant takes on the capabilities of Tesla cars, even going so far as to start charging customers…
Learn Four Techniques to Help You Prepare for the Unexpected
By Jane McGonigal, PhD, Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and lead instructor of the Futures Thinking Specialization If the year 2020 has shown us anything so far, it’s that we all need to get better at expecting the unexpected. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work, […]
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Political Protests Are Now Happening in Videogames
Business Insider reports that some players are adapting their avatars in the game world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the real world:
In “Animal Crossing: New Horizons,” players are creating customized signs and clothing for their game characters that say “BLM” and depict symbols of “No justice, no peace….” Anyone with…
Hundreds of Armed US Counter-Protesters Fall for ‘Apparent Hoax’
Yesterday as America celebrated its Independence Day, the Washington Post reports something unusual happened at the historic Civil War battefield at Gettysburg: For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical… There…
Is Our Technology Literally Changing Our Brains?
Nicholas Carr authored The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains back in 2010. This week he offered an up-to-date assessment in his newest interview with Vox co-founder Ezra Klein. “The point of this conversation is not that the internet is bad, nor that it is good,” Klein writes. “It’s that it is changing us, just as every medium…
Linus Torvalds: ‘I Do No Coding Any More’
The Linux Foundation recently uploaded its video from the Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference: Europe. And there was a poignant moment when Linus Torvalds did his traditional keynote conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VMware’s vice president and chief open source officer. Honndel had asked Linus — his hair now uncharacteristically long — what he spends his time on as a…