Day: July 6, 2019

11 cool Stranger Things products to turn you Upside Down for season 3 – CNET

Bring Hawkins home with everything from a bike like Dustin’s to a handheld unit that plays ’80s games. …read more Source:: CNet


Google Sued For Conspiring To Share Medical Records Against Patient Consent

schwit1 writes: A former University of Chicago medical patient filed a class-action lawsuit against the University of Chicago and Google, claiming that the University of Chicago Medical Center is giving private patient information to the tech giant without patients consent. About two years ago, the university medical center partnered with Google with the hope of…


Guitar Made from Noodles Glows in the Dark

Wood. Specifically, certain types of tone woods; woods that impart a certain tone. That’s what guitars are made of. And occasionally, plastic, or metal, or fibreglass or, well, anything. [_forwardaudio_] built his out of noodles, because, why not? Well, not completely out of noodles. Epoxy is used to give some strength to the noodles, because,…


OpenPGP Keyserver Attack Ongoing

Trailrunner7 quotes Duo.com’s Decipher blog: There’s an interesting and troubling attack happening to some people involved in the OpenPGP community that makes their certificates unusable and can essentially break the OpenPGP implementation of anyone who tries to import one of the certificates. The attack is quite simple and doesn’t exploit any technical vulnerabilities in the…


Elon Musk’s Dream of An Onion-Like Media Empire

“Elon Musk wanted The Onion; he got Thud,” reports the Verge, telling the wacky story of how Elon Musk gave $2 million to two former editors from the Onion to create “an ambitious, offbeat satire startup” that would focus on the real world instead of online, “with fake brands, fake products, and fake museum installations.”…


A.I.’s Minority Report for retail: They know you’ll return it even before you buy it

Retail can be a game, a game that Indian online apparel retailer Myntra is learning to play better by predicting people’s propensity to return what’s in their shopping cart before they purchase, and using rewards and punishments to block returns. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Volkswagen’s electric ID R race car set a new Goodwood Hill Climb record – Roadshow

Volkswagen’s electric ID R race car smashed a 20-year-old record at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed. …read more Source:: CNet


Why Is Slack Retaining Everyone’s Chat History?

The associate director of research at the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a new warning in the Opinion section of the New York Times this week, calling Slack the only unicorn going public this year “that has admitted it is at risk for nation-state attacks” and saying there’s a simple way to minimize risk — that…


Mozilla: No plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in the UK

But there’s nothing stopping users from enabling the DNS-over-HTTPS feature in Firefox on their own, though. …read more Source:: ZDNet


3D Printed Buttons, Printed as a Single Unit

These nifty buttons come from [Marc Schömann], and they are intended to cover just about any kind of tact switches. The buttons, their cover, and the compliant bits that act as a spring can be 3D printed as a complete unit that requires no assembly, and can be used fresh off the print bed. The…