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US risks its leading role in tech by leaving regulations to the EU

Jul09
by on July 9, 2019 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


In the 30 years since Tim Berners Lee first documented his vision for what would become the World Wide Web, the US has been the primary leader in innovative infrastructure and products that are now core to everyday life. This innovation mostly occurred with startups shielded from legal constraints. That time is coming to a halt, with Europe positioned to overtake Silicon Valley as the ideological heart of the tech industry. Despite building countless products that have become core to our daily lives, the tech industry has lost the public’s trust. The grievances span far and wide, from toxic and…

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This site shows how much your favorite athletes make… but in Bitcoin

Jul09
by on July 9, 2019 at 9:15 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Hard Fork


Are you tired of checking the price of your cryptocurrency fortune every hour or so? We might have the perfect distraction for you: a website that shows the salaries of some of the world’s most popular athletes… but in Bitcoin. BitcoinSalaries sources the yearly salaries of pro athletes and then converts the amount into Bitcoin based on the latest exchange rates – as simple as that. The site also has a separate “Into crypto?” category, which shows if the athletes have previously done any business with cryptocurrency. FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, for instance, ticks off that category, as he previously…

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US tip-off leads to arrest after man buys child abuse imagery with cryptocurrency in Australia

Jul09
by on July 9, 2019 at 9:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A Australian man has been charged after authorities linked him to a cryptocurrency account used to buy child exploitation material. An investigation, following a tip off from US authorities in December last year, traced the account back to a 27-year-old man from Sydney.  On Friday, the NSW Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team searched the man’s house and found several devices, including hard drives, and a mobile phone.   The police will claim these devices were used to access and download child exploitation material. The man was arrested and charged with one count of using a carriage service to access child pornography material and three…

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This Chrome extension makes you ponder your mortality while wasting time on social media

Jul09
by on July 9, 2019 at 8:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Despite fearing death, humans have always been weirdly obsessed with anticipating their final day on earth. Now in the digital age, this morbid fascination with predicting death has taken form in digital death clocks. Death countdown tools are often used as a joke, but some financial institutions, health organizations, and insurers are using its data as a life expectancy calculator. Now, there’s a death clock for the amount of time you’re wasting on social media. Last year, the average daily usage of social media worldwide was 2 hours 22 minutes, according to Statista. And that’s just a just a drop…

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Zoom security flaw could let websites turn on your Mac’s webcam without permission

Jul09
by on July 9, 2019 at 7:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web


A serious zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed in Zoom video conferencing app on the Mac. Security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, in a Medium post, detailed the flaw that could let websites hijack your Mac‘s camera and “forcibly” join you to a Zoom call without your permission. About four million of Zoom’s users are on Mac. The way the vulnerability works is as follows. Zoom gives users an easy way to dial into video conference calls with the tap of a link — something like https://zoom.us/j/999999999, where ‘999999999’ is a random 9-digit meeting ID that expires once the meeting ends. This Zoom…

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