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by fumblebee 4y ago
Hm, I have Revolut and they do have a web app, though they are certainly mobile-first, but not mobile-only. In any case, this is a nice strategy to hedge.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
From the article, it suggests that the thieves “shoulder surf” the victims until they see them type in their device pin, then after pickpocketing either use that same pin for the app, or search through notes for sensitive passwords and the
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Mobile phone fraud: 'They stole £22,500 using my banking app’(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by fumblebee 4y ago|9 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Do people here consciously think about this sort of fraud, and how do you secure yourself against it? (e.g. biometric locks on email accounts and notes?)
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Off topic, but the first illustration in the post is by Robert Crumb; for anyone who hasn't seen the documentary on him, titled "Crumb"[1], you're missing out! [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt010950
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by fumblebee 4y ago
If you were to take a handful of trending tech from the past decade, and plot peak hype against utility, I'd wager ChatGPT and related technologies would rank pretty favourably. Crypto and VR have gone through similar hype cycles but t
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Don't ruin my recommendations(grandy.substack.com)
4 points by fumblebee 4y ago|1 comments
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Why AI Will Be the Next Foundational Technology Platform(grandy.substack.com)
2 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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Who gains and loses from the new AI?(marginalrevolution.com)
3 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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AI: The next foundational technology platform(grandy.substack.com)
1 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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Fresh fintech funding data tells us what investors are chasing in a downturn(sifted.eu)
1 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
My plan for peaceful slumber was thwarted just last week when the old sash window above my bed rattled intermittently throughout the night. Too knackered to get up and fix it, too conscious to sleep soundly. I woke up early and exhausted, a
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UFO reports by US troops skyrocket to over 500(bbc.com)
13 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
> Wordsmithing is annoying and not really productive work True in the context of sitting at a desk and writing. But during a quickfire conversation, I find it incredibly satisfying talking to someone who crafts vivid imagery and uses wic
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by fumblebee 4y ago
> "There are few if any passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne that I do not find thoroughly delightful" The opening sentence is a perfect example of how to write English... if you want it to lack clarity. Double negatives
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by fumblebee 4y ago
How fortunate we are that silicon is so abundant.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
New scam incoming... > Scammers get hold of someone's voice which is synthesised in ~real-time whilst they're on the phone with that person's mother, asking them to transfer them some emergency funds to a new bank account.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
The difference is that nukes and - in most countries - guns are harder to find. Regulation is easier when you have more centralised distribution channels. Code is infinitely replicable at marginal cost, and so highly accessible once it&#x27
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Ask HN: Are there any good open source text-to-speech tools?
242 points by fumblebee 4y ago|121 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
https://archive.ph/YcqHG
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Unbelievably cool. Great job. Tangentially — apologies if this is the wrong thread for this —, I know this is distinct to AI generated music (the melody here is a one-to-one mapping between the input song and output piano), but I’m curious
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by fumblebee 4y ago
The Alignment Problem was a stand out read for me this year; it should be required reading for anyone training and deploying ML models. Incredibly well researched and chockablock with real world examples.
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Predictions for Fintech in 2023(forbes.com)
2 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
I don't mean to come across as patronising or holier-than-thou, but regardless of what you think about someone, reductive name calling is antithetical to civil discourse.
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Electronic Trade Documents Bill [UK](computerweekly.com)
1 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Annoyingly, HN logic strips out the URI fragment, here's the comment in question. https://github.com/pytest-dev/py/issues/287#issuecomment-128...
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ReDoS Vulnerability in Svnurl.py #287(github.com)
1 points by fumblebee 4y ago|1 comments
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond(hackmd.io)
3 points by fumblebee 4y ago|1 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Surely it's not a coincidence that on the day FTX announces bankruptcy, this gigantic hack occurs? Some folks in this thread are speculating this might've been an inside job. I suspect, it's likelier that hackers had been a
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by fumblebee 4y ago
It's clearly not an apples for apples comparison. Op said "for an organisation", not for a company without fulfilment centers, drivers, etc.

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