Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity
May 30 2025There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people—you, me, everyone—should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to...
Read moreI hadn’t known that the NGC 1068 galaxy is nicknamed the “Squid Galaxy.” It is, and it’s spewing neutrinos without the usual accompanying gamma rays. As usual, you can...
Read moreSurveillance Via Smart Toothbrush
May 29 2025The only links are from The Daily Mail and The Mirror, but a marital affair was discovered because the cheater was recorded using his smart toothbrush at home when...
Read moreLocation Tracking App for Foreigners in Moscow
May 28 2025Russia is proposing a rule that all foreigners in Moscow install a tracking app on their phones.
Using a mobile application that all foreigners will have to install on...
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Chinese-Owned VPNs
May 27 2025One one my biggest worries about VPNs is the amount of trust users need to place in them, and how opaque most of them are about who owns them...
Read moreInteresting story: USS Stein was underway when her anti-submarine sonar gear suddenly stopped working. On returning to port and putting the ship in a drydock, engineers observed many deep scratches...
Read moreSignal Blocks Windows Recall
May 23 2025This article gives a good rundown of the security risks of Windows Recall, and the repurposed copyright protection took that Signal used to block the AI feature from scraping...
Read moreThe Voter Experience
May 22 2025Technology and innovation have transformed every part of society, including our electoral experiences. Campaigns are spending and doing more than at any other time in history. Ever-growing war chests...
Read moreMore AIs Are Taking Polls and Surveys
May 21 2025I already knew about the declining response rate for polls and surveys. The percentage of AI bots that respond to surveys is also increasing.
Solutions are hard:
1. Make surveys...
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DoorDash Hack
May 20 2025A DoorDash driver stole over $2.5 million over several months:
The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, placed expensive orders from a fraudulent customer account in the DoorDash app. Then,...
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