"Generally useless to the group, Tandy did nothing for two years. Then something incredible happened."
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/539781/did-typo-help-end-world-war-ii#.Xj3K_o2uvL8.twitter
Brave uncovers widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ezxwwe/brave_uncovers_widespread_surveillance_of_uk/
A new study finds that many common foods, including beer and tea, turn out to be βnaturalβ GMOs. Whatβs a health-food purist to do?
#Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/
"At the moment, we donβt even know whether all this privacy violation works as advertised."
"Ebay lost 63 cents on every dollar they put into Google search advertising"
"Beliefs formed on insufficient evidence seem tough to move," Rao wrote.
"When these experiments showed that ads were utterly pointless, advertisers were not bothered in the slightest."
thanks @selontheweb for the very interesting read
Just append "/amp/" to the URL to access paywalled articles. AFAIK most Google AMP pages are hidden behind this suffix. And AMP pages are rarely paywalled perhaps to make it faster on phone and friendly towards Google.
Example paywalled article: https://fortune.com/2020/02/03/iowa-caucus-voting-app-security-hack-disinformation/
Paywall removed: https://fortune.com/2020/02/03/iowa-caucus-voting-app-security-hack-disinformation/amp/
Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122044/google-photos-privacy-breach-takeout-data-video-strangers
The Galileo Return Link Service, which allows people in distress to receive automatic acknowledgement that their signal has been received, is now live.
Even Amazon employees are starting to revolt. As one employee says, Amazon Ring surveillance doorbells are βnot compatible with a free society.β https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineer-says-ring-should-be-shut-down-immediately-2020-1
How a 17 yo old kid in 90's Poland learned what the word "androgynous" means?
Well, back around ~1994 I was obtaining cheat codes from a PC game "Ugh!" and found this:
Level 20 ANDROGYNOUSNOISE
..and it seems like they're still online after 25 years:
Man Who Bankrolled Brexit Boasted of WikiLeaks Backchannel - https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-bankrolled-brexit-boasted-of-wikileaks-backchannel
As YouTube started banning hacking research videos, authors started posting them on...
https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5e377ff73a84a
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.