Find Others On Facebook By Guessing Phone Numbers
Calling this an oversight is a bit of an understatement.
Software engineer Reza Moaiandin has learned that it's possible to scoop up the public details of legions of Facebook users simply by guessing phone numbers with a random number generator. You see, the social network defaults to letting anyone search for you using your phone number, even if it's unlisted -- as there's no search limit, all it takes is a script to harvest the user IDs for thousands of people.
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Google Has A New Parent Company Called Alphabet
At first I thought this announcement was a joke. Then I realized they are dead serious. Thanks to everyone that sent this one in.
Our company is operating well today, but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable. So we are creating a new company, called Alphabet (http://abc.xyz). I am really excited to be running Alphabet as CEO with help from my capable partner, Sergey, as President. What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is a bit slimmed down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products contained in Alphabet instead. What do we mean by far afield? Good examples are our health efforts: Life Sciences (that works on the glucose-sensing contact lens), and Calico (focused on longevity). Fundamentally, we believe this allows us more management scale, as we can run things independently that aren't very related.
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Cortana For Android Can Replace Google Now
All you Android users out there can, if you so desire, replace Google Now with Microsoft's Cortana.
In the latest Beta version of Cortana, you can now replace the Google Now shortcut, which can be accessed by pressing and holding the home button. Instead of Google Now, you can activate Cortana instead (see image below). This build of Cortana has yet to support "Hey Cortana" and there are still other ways to access Google Now features if you really need it.
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Fractal Design Core 1500 Case
If you are on a budget and in need of a new case, head on over to ThinkComputers and read this review of the Fractal Design Core 1500.
The Fractal Design Core 1500 has all the features of the bigger cases with the same type of hard drive mounting systems that most, if not all of Fractal Design cases including the wire management access holes that are uniformly placed with very smooth edges, but you will not find any rubber grommets covering these holes within this particular model which is one of the ways Fractal Design has saved money including the smart use of the same hardware over the entire product line.
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Creating Virtual Humans For Nefarious Purposes Is Easy
It is scary how easy it is to pull something like this off. I can see why this is a lucrative business on the black market.
During a presentation at Def Con, Rock demonstrated how easy it was to get doctor and undertaker credentials from publicly available databases and use those credentials to register birth and death certificates. In fact, you don't even need to create a fake baby to kill; you can kill one of your friends (or enemies) thanks to a system that doesn't verify the identity of medical professionals.
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It's Time To Build The Private Web
Time to build a private web? Why don't we just take back the one we already have?
Today, society needs to breathe new life into Washington's idea of censorship-free communications by providing these basic rights to all 3 billion people already connected to the Web, and to those who will be coming online in the next decade. We need to collectively balance our global Web to ensure the Internet remains a platform for free speech and uncensored information, where privacy and real human connection enable strong social discourse and economic prosperity. I call that space the Private Web.
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Opera Up For Sale?
Could Opera be putting itself up for sale after slashing its full year earnings forecast last week?
Opera announced today that its Board of Directors, in response to strategic interest in the Company from a number of parties, has initiated a process to evaluate and consider strategic alternatives for the Company, with the objective of further enhancing shareholder value. The Board of Directors has selected ABG Sundal Collier and Morgan Stanley International to serve as its advisors.The review is expected to conclude in the second half of 2015. Opera will update shareholders and other stakeholders about the outcome of the review in due course.
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Windows 10 Update Triggers Reboot Glitch
Have any of you experienced this update reboot glitch? Isn't this a repeat from when people were trying to upgrade to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8?
After the update fails to install properly the first time around, Windows 10 tries to roll it back as is standard procedure. But since the update is automated and forced, Windows tries to install it again after rebooting, causing a loop of reboots for some users.
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Tesla Loses More Than $4,000 On Every Car Sold
How do you stay in business when your company is losing more than $4,000 per car? That is just insane.
The Silicon Valley automaker is losing more than $4,000 on every Model S electric sedan it sells, using its reckoning of operating losses, and it burned $359 million in cash last quarter in a bull market for luxury vehicles. The company on Wednesday cut its production targets for this year and next. Chief Executive Elon Musk said he's considering options to raise more capital, and didn't rule out selling more stock.
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Three Ways Women Unlearn Their Love Of Video Games
The three ways women unlearn their love of video games? Boys are mean. Men are dicks. Women are forbidden from making games because the system holds you down.
For my sister, and so many girls and women like her, the gaming marketplace begins and ends with these mainstream visions of gaming, and the mainstream stores like Game Stop that sell them. "It's obviously for boys. The nudity of course, but even the colors. From what I see, they mostly hire boys." We discuss the posters and cardboard stand-ups we've seen in their windows: stubbly white men cradling bricks of oily black weaponry, or half-naked voluptuous women with pouting, glossy lips inviting the onlooker to ogle. Be the hero, over and over again, in a million monochrome worlds: crush the bad guy, f*ck the woman, do a whole lot of shooting in between. Games are fantasy and fun, the marketing tells us. Fantasy and fun built upon our backs.
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EFF Told to "Shut the Hell Up" About SOPA
You have to be stupid or have a pretty big set of balls to tell the Electronic Frontier Foundation to "shut the hell up."
Isn't it time for those at the EFF and others who yell 'SOPA' each time the movie industry takes legal action against online pirates to shut the hell up? What is abusive is the way online piracy (for profit) is allowed to flourish, made sacrosanct by tech apologists.
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Lincoln's High-Tech 30 Way Seat Concept
I don't care if Lincoln ever uses this seat in a car. I just want them to make an office chair like this.
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HGST Research Demonstrates Breakthrough Persistent Memory Fabric
Building upon last-year's record-breaking three million I/O per second Phase Change Memory (PCM) demonstration1, HGST, a Western Digital Company, in collaboration with Mellanox Technologies, is showcasing a revolutionary PCM-based, RDMA-enabled in-memory compute cluster architecture that delivers DRAM-like performance at a lower cost of ownership2 with greater scalability. While modern data center applications can benefit from more main memory, today's DRAM approaches are expensive to scale because of that memory's volatility: DRAM stores data in leaky capacitors, and thus needs to be rewritten many times per second to stave off data loss. This refresh power consumption can be as much as 20-30% of the total server energy4. Emerging non-volatile memory technologies, such as PCM, do not have this refresh power demand thereby enabling far greater scalability of main memory than DRAM.
HGST's breakthrough persistent memory fabric technology delivers reliable, scalable, low-power memory with DRAM-like performance, and does not require BIOS modification nor rewriting of applications. Memory mapping of remote PCM using the Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) protocol over networking infrastructures, such as Ethernet or InfiniBand, enables a seamless, wide scale deployment of in-memory computing. This network-based approach allows applications to harness the non-volatile PCM across multiple computers to scale out as needed.
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