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by watbe 9y ago
On the contrary, because I bought the Nexus 6P from the Google Store, they replaced it with a Pixel XL for free. The Google experience is terrible through a third party, but their Google 'direct' experience is pretty darn fantasti
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Fake Russian Facebook Accounts Bought $100,000 in Political Ads(nytimes.com)
10 points by watbe 9y ago|0 comments
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by watbe 9y ago
Gotcha, I appreciate the explanation.
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by watbe 9y ago
Doesn't the max-age parameter[1] restrict a browser from accepting only those previously specified keys for a certain time frame? Therefor newly issued certificates should throw a warning. Otherwise it would be trivial for a MitM'
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by watbe 9y ago
Symantec is surely testing the patience of Google/Mozilla now. Illegitimate revocation seems almost on the same level as illegitimate issuance of certificates. Imagine the impact on an HPKP site.
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by watbe 9y ago
Agreed. This headline makes it sound like they're cheating in exams, but this is take-home assignments we're talking about. If wolfram alpha wasn't available, they'd be asking friends or posting in maths forums. Wolfram
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by watbe 9y ago
The answer to your question is given by the EC decision: > There are also high barriers to entry in these markets, in part because of network effects: the more consumers use a search engine, the more attractive it becomes to advertisers.
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by watbe 9y ago
This link is broken for me. It gives me a "too many redirects" error when visiting it.
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by watbe 9y ago
Can we update the title to the article's actual title? It is currently quite misleading. "Google Assistant will use more than one device to decipher the exact voice commands"
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by watbe 9y ago
The BBC have tweeted a screenshot[1] showing another address as well, showing a lot of activity at the address[2] 1: https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/863046075002884097 2: https://blockchain.info&
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by watbe 9y ago
I imagine it isn't just a publicity stunt. From what I can guess, this is a multi-facet approach at divesting their core (route-planning) business. I think there are two distinct outcomes from this announcement. 1. New tools built from
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Adopt a Character(unicode.org)
1 points by watbe 9y ago|0 comments
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by watbe 9y ago
Looks like the Google Earth Flight Simulator[0] didn't make the cut. Many features are missing from the original desktop app and it's not immediately clear what this offers over using "Earth" within Google Maps. The &quo
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by watbe 10y ago
Non-paywalled but not identical version: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-w...
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by watbe 10y ago
This is horrific, but what a fascinating story and outcome. Thanks for sharing
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Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+(samsung.com)
2 points by watbe 10y ago|0 comments
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by watbe 10y ago
Most interestingly, several countries with the Queen as their Head of State have expressed a willingness to become Republics after Elizabeth passes. The most likely candidate being Australia. Her death is likely to cause the further deterio
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by watbe 10y ago
What is the metric actually measuring? Where did 70% come from? The article says that only 30% of requests were automated but I find it hard to believe that the API aims for 100% automated responses for all requests. Heck, if the bot API ma
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by watbe 10y ago
Final release notes: https://golang.org/doc/go1.8
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by watbe 10y ago
Only a guess, but I think it means "the government knows what is best for its citizens".
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by watbe 10y ago
This is not footage from this earthquake. This earthquake hit at 12am in the morning so these videos are obviously of another time.
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Slack: Connectivity issues for some teams(status.slack.com)
2 points by watbe 10y ago|1 comments
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by watbe 10y ago
It provides a sort of scapegoat for attacks. The government can't be seen as doing nothing against the threat of terrorism, so when the adversary uses encryption to cover their tracks, the government can point and say 'we did our
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by watbe 10y ago
This is an elaborate hack and a very detailed writeup. Thanks for sharing.
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Singapore prepares to block internet access on government computers(abc.net.au)
2 points by watbe 10y ago|0 comments
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by watbe 11y ago
> Unfortunately, given how slowly bonsai trees grow, this is not an event that can be staged annually. If it were, every artisan’s top trees would become redundant. It's refreshing to feel the scale of slower-paced rewards compared
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USB 3.0 Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices(intel.com)
2 points by watbe 11y ago|0 comments
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by watbe 11y ago
The exploit has been fixed, and this video shows how easy it was to perform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPl_BJoBaVA TL;DW: Steam accepted blank recovery codes for password resets, enabling passwords to be changed witho
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Google Chrome's Pwnium V: The Never-Ending* Pwnium(blog.chromium.org)
1 points by watbe 12y ago|0 comments
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Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4(anandtech.com)
114 points by watbe 14y ago|72 comments

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