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About 90% of Smart TVs Vulnerable to Remote Hacking via Rogue TV Signals(bleepingcomputer.com)
7 points by hew 10y ago|0 comments
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by hew 10y ago
I think we underestimate how hard it is to polish hardware to Apple-level tolerances. Especially because: 1. It takes a lot of capital to even attempt. 2. The traditional players in position to do so do not have it in their DNA (Dell, HP, e
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by hew 10y ago
Slightly shooting from the hip here (as I'm still learning). Low-ish volume- design your system such that data flows [at the relevant crucial points] through a single actor to ensure proper concurrency. High volume- trickier but I thin
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The 'impossible' EM Drive is about to be tested in space(sciencealert.com)
4 points by hew 10y ago|0 comments
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by hew 10y ago
Have you tried a headset yet? I think this time is different. I thought it sounded like an early adopter money pit myself until I actually tried a Rift. It won me over even while underpowered (MB Air!) in very simple demos.
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by hew 10y ago
Yep, talking to myself: http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/nhtsa-expand... "The five recall phases are based on prioritization of risk, determined by the age of the inflators and exposure to hi
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by hew 10y ago
http://hondaairbaginfo.com/news-updates/statement-by-america... "Automobile models and model years included in the first stage of this recent expansion of the Takata non-desiccated passenger front inflator recal
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Japan very nearly lost Tokyo(nzherald.co.nz)
2 points by hew 11y ago|0 comments
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AVG releases transparent privacy policy: Yes, we will sell your data(zdnet.com)
6 points by hew 11y ago|0 comments
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by hew 11y ago
I hear you on the control thing. You mention you are a power user above so my two cents is that likely puts you outside of the user base Mozilla covets. In the last couple years, the words "Firefox" and "power user" went
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by hew 11y ago
Agree. And as someone who's been running the Developer Edition as his primary browser for some time, I'm happy to report that it has been by enlarge reasonably stable--even though I've had e10s enabled.
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In-depth interview: Pen tester who probed birth/death record vulnerabilities(csmonitor.com)
1 points by hew 11y ago|0 comments
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by hew 11y ago
Birth interventions in general tend to skew toward unnecessary and dangerous. Unnecessary interventions due to overly zealous electronic monitoring of "normal numbers", perverse financial incentives to turn rooms over quickly, and
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by hew 11y ago
The actual white paper: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Domas-Th...
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Researchers Discover Rootkit Exploit in Intel Processors That Dates Back to 1997(hothardware.com)
24 points by hew 11y ago|6 comments
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by hew 11y ago
Monthly. My, how nimble! Maybe one day they can aspire to Patch Tuesday heights.
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by hew 11y ago
This one, albeit local only, was a lot of fun too: https://www.securemac.com/macosxsetuidroot.php
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OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild(blog.malwarebytes.org)
278 points by hew 11y ago|173 comments
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by hew 11y ago
Global labor arbitrage marches ever onward.
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Scientists Observe EM Drive Propulsion Again(hacked.com)
17 points by hew 11y ago|1 comments
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by hew 11y ago
My burning question: will Hydra be open sourced too?
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by hew 12y ago
This is no longer accurate. Some remain "contractors" still officially due to regulatory issues, but we now have employees in multiple locations outside North America. And that list of locations is growing. (I work at Automattic)
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by hew 12y ago
Yep, I am. I'll do that.
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by hew 12y ago
Very neat idea! It's reliably crashing for me every time ~30 seconds after opening on 10.10.1. Not too sure where to start troubleshooting. Any ideas?
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by hew 17y ago
For core issues (WordPress.org), send an email with the details to: security@wordpress.org For WordPress.com specific issues, you can use the general support form: http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/