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Malicious MP3 file can be used to exploit 1bn Android phones(thenextweb.com)
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Popcorn Time's creator reveals his identity(dn.no)
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How iOS ad blocking performs in the real world(thenextweb.com)
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by owenwil 11y ago
Does anyone have a laptop on the affected list, that's seeing this right now? If so, get in touch? owen@thenextweb.com
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by owenwil 11y ago
I laughed at this line where she tries to prove her point by touting that Oracle already found a bug that a security researcher reported to them (but wasn't fixed yet): "(Small digression: I was busting my buttons today when I fou
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by owenwil 11y ago
I don't want to get into arguing about adblocking too much, but it is notable that all studies, including this one, about adblock reach are from companies who have a vested interest in growing ad blocking's reach... yet the pres
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Jack Dorsey just spent $875K on Twitter shares(sec.gov)
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TypeKit is down(thenextweb.com)
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by owenwil 11y ago
This was an awesome read. Thank you for this, I'd never thought of it that way before.
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Amazon beats Netflix to new car show from Top Gear presenters(thenextweb.com)
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Stop exposing your .git to the world(thenextweb.com)
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Twitter mulls replacing 'favorite' button(thenextweb.com)
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What Spotify learnt when it quietly changed colors(thenextweb.com)
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Fairphone 2, the first modular smartphone, is now available for pre-order(thenextweb.com)
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by owenwil 11y ago
All I saw here was what Google tried to do with Wave
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by owenwil 11y ago
I just moved to Europe and this started annoying me to no end. Thankfully, this Chrome extension kills them all https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-...
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by owenwil 11y ago
This seems a little extreme. "To me, Apple's not-yet-executed move to liberate some of the Swift 2.0 code seems a tactical stunt to win over developers who currently prefer the relatively more open nature of the Android/Linux
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by owenwil 11y ago
Why is this back on here today?
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by owenwil 11y ago
Regular users simply don't care.
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by owenwil 11y ago
We don't even know if it's an ad-blocking API yet, or simply used for things like tracker blockers. It's a big question mark- how will Apple police what ad blockers can do inside Safari? Yeah, the API exists, but we have no i
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by owenwil 11y ago
Yes - in my network admin days back in 2007, we were decommissioning our datacenter as we'd virtualized everything and as we were gutting the room we found our PABX/Voicemail server under the tiles, happily running away with OS&#x
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by owenwil 11y ago
Adblock Plus seems to have a very good business model extorting money from Google and others to show their ads. http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/adblock-plus-accused-of-sha...
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by owenwil 11y ago
Damn, this is a beautiful site.
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by owenwil 11y ago
Here's a quick real-world demo I made in Amsterdam today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO4-LBGejqw
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by owenwil 11y ago
I actually just found this single mention of Google engineers specifically addressing this in the next major build of Chrome. Maybe there is hope after all: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?i
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Dave Goldberg, Silicon Valley Executive, Said to Have Died After Exercising(nytimes.com)
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Facebook video is on course to steal YouTube’s video sharing crown(thenextweb.com)
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NZ ISPs threatened with legal action for providing access to US Netflix(thenextweb.com)
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by owenwil 12y ago
Right, but this is kind of the point. Because Slack is more approachable for the masses, it wins in these scenarios. It doesn't need to convince the longtime IRC users to move across, just the ones that see barrier to entry on IRC as e
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Show HN: Keep up with news without visiting tech sites
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