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Website drive-by attacks that try to booby trap visitors’ routers are alive and well, according to antivirus provider Avast, which blocked more than 4.6 million of them in Brazil over a two-month span. Rooting the routers' routes rates right
Yeah, I needed something else there at the end. Feel free to alliterate yourself.
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Proper passwords present properties that prevent perverted pillocks pillaging proprietary property.
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This month's Security-only update package for Windows 7 includes an unexpected compatibility/telemetry component that has some skeptical users up in arms. I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation (they really want to watch)
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Two suspicious ms telemetry stories in a week?
And there was I, wondering why a certain-coloured person who lives in a certain-coloured house never mentions their name in his rabid tweets about tech giants.
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modified 15-Jul-19 18:16pm.
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WG21 has a strict schedule by which we ship the standard every three years. We don’t delay it. Because that's how long it takes companies to decide they won't be upgrading to the latest standard?
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Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu is an ambitious one to begin with, and the team recently made the decision to up the stakes with a second touchdown on the space rock’s surface. And they broke it - now they have to pay for it
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Step 1 for the "Armageddon" theory... check
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How the Lunar Laser Retroreflector, still operating 50 years later, ended up going to the moon. Mirror, mirror on the moon; how did you get there: by gull or balloon?
I'm assuming the moon landing deniers either deny it's actually there, or that it was somehow placed without human intervention?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: it was somehow placed without human intervention
Astral projection? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Scientists have unveiled the first photograph ever captured of quantum entanglement, the physical phenomenon in which two or more “entangled” particles are connected via their quantum states, even across vast distances. Spooky!
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OK, this a subject of interest to me, but I have to look into this more, because "taking a photograph of it" sounds remarkably like bullsh1t.
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The Justice Department is now considering the settlement, the Wall Street Journal reports I guess they'll have to put up more advertisements to make this up
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Last Friday, legendary MIT computer scientist Fernando “Corby” Corbató passed away at his home in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 93. His first password (123456) will now be retired
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Gh7%^tge nmd7Loj Nk40 887H4 jn iHi4 Ut fnek* tosnmg8(
And that's all I have to say, in this sad circumstance.
Good luck decrypting it: it uses a decades-old standard that was obviously "not good enough".
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Good luck decrypting it: it uses a decades-old standard that was obviously "not good enough".
root13 ?  
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Nelek wrote: root13 ?
Slightly later than that.
Rot13.2
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Just in case you were holding out any hope that Google didn’t let humans listen to voice recordings from Google Home and Google Assistant, stop doing that. Everyone else very angry Google let contractors handle the Assistant recordings
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Everyone else very angry Google let contractors handle the Assistant recordings
But there will be very few / little to no consequences... as usual 
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Google very angry for losing the "most evil" title, even if only temporarily.
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I'm not sure if, and in what measure, Google is breaking any privacy laws.
What I do know is that the contractor is breaking some contractual agreements and probably also some privacy laws.
I can only assume that his contracting days are over and if it were up to me he'd do some jail time and pay a hefty fine for intentionally sharing confidential and private data.
I'm not even sure what this idiot tried to get out of it because it was apparently already known that humans listen to audio recordings (although it's now more widely known).
If this were a small company it could ruin them, the fact that it's Google should not matter in that regard.
I get that Google is angry, and I would be too.
For once, I'm on Google's side.
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Facebook releases Hermes to improve app performance on low-end Android phones. Because you never know when you might want to bolt a JavaScript engine into something?
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Hermes is the god of, among other things, thieves and trickery.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: thieves and trickery
You might have a translation error, there.
I have a feeling that it could translate to "utter bollocks".
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Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019[^]
LinkedIn said: July 2 outage that left thousands of websites and services like Shopify, Zendesk, Dropbox and Nest out of commission for part of the day.
CloudFlare said: The CPU exhaustion was caused by a single WAF rule that contained a poorly written regular expression that ended up creating excessive backtracking. The regular expression that was at the heart of the outage is
(?:(?:\"|'|\]|\}|\\|\d|(?:nan|infinity|true|false|null|undefined|symbol|math)|\`|\-|\+)+[)]*;?((?:\s|-|~|!|{}|\|\||\+)*.*(?:.*=.*)))
Q: Now, who'da thought a little ol' RegEx could cause such harm? 
A: All the devs who've ever experienced backtracking in a "simple" RegEx.
modified 14-Jul-19 12:05pm.
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