Logjam: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice
Tracking the FREAK Attack
Uber Tests 30% Fee, Its Highest Yet
Uber is experimenting with taking 30% of the fares booked through its car-hailing app, the highest commission it has charged drivers.
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Posted on 2015-05-19T15:29:05+0000
Popcorn In Your Browser
popcorninyourbrowser.net
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And now Popcorn time is in the browser. It'll be fun to see how fast it gets taken down
Posted on 2015-05-19T15:23:51+0000
RadioShack Sold Your Data to Pay Off Its Debts. The FTC Isn’t Too Happy About It.
RadioShack is dead, but its saga is ongoing. Last week, the company’s name was auctioned off for $26.2 million to Standard General, a hedge fund that earlier this year bought hundreds of RadioShack store leases. With the latest purchase, though, Standard General also got RadioShack’s collection of c…
Get Your Shit Together
Life and Death Planning: Low effort, high reward.
Adrian Chadd's Ramblings: freebsd-wifi-build, or "wait, you can run freebsd on atheros MIPS...
adrianchadd.blogspot.com
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Posted on 2015-05-19T05:53:36+0000
We Need More Autopsies, to Help Save the Living - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
When Italian authorities confirmed that James Gandolfini had just died in Rome of an apparent heart attack in 2013, many reports in…
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"Doctors take far too much confidence in scan results, feeling they see everything with certainty. They don’t. As a Florida coroner told me a few years ago, “We get this all the time. The doctors get our report and call and say, ‘But there can’t be a lacerated aorta. We did a whole set of scans.’
“We have to remind them that we held the heart in our hands.”"
Posted on 2015-05-19T02:22:52+0000
Google's Plan to Eliminate Human Driving in 5 Years | WIRED
Google wants to take the human out of the equation altogether, and for good reason.
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Posted on 2015-05-18T13:12:26+0000
Don’t Be So Sure the Economy Will Return to Normal
As postrecession problems linger, the question arises about whether we are witnessing a fundamental shift.
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Posted on 2015-05-18T05:00:40+0000
Fake Diplomas, Real Cash: Pakistani Company Axact Reaps Millions
According to former insiders, company records and an analysis of its websites, a secretive software company is selling fake academic degrees on a global scale.
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I always wondered what they do while driving past daily, with their luxurious office and branded employee shuttles
Posted on 2015-05-18T04:43:16+0000