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Yes, there’s a subreddit that skewers those targeted Facebook t-shirt ads

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 7:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


Facebook ads are usually weird and funny when they’re not showing off spooky knowledge of your life and hobbies. Those targeted ads for graphic t-shirts somehow manage to be all three — and a subreddit is celebrating them in all their bizarre glory. You probably know the kinds of shirts I’m talking about — I feel like everyone’s seen at least one, and they’ve been making the rounds since at least last year. Each one looks like a social media-based AI got drunk and threw up refrigerator magnet poetry. They mention specific things relating to what information you’ve put online, such…

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You can now try Microsoft’s Chromium-powered version of Edge

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 4:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Back in December, Microsoft surprised everyone – those who hadn’t been following the rumors, anyway – by announcing it was shifting Edge to Google’s ubiquitous Chromium platform. Chromium promises better and faster support for constantly evolving web standards. You can now give this shinier version of Edge a try for yourself. The company today released its first Developer and Canary builds of the browser – the former updated weekly, and the latter daily. I’ve been able to test an early build briefly before it went public. The first thing I noticed is that it’s not simply a carbon copy of…

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9 design ideas for the future of digital dating

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 4:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, creative, Design & Dev, Social Media, syndication


Whether you are a gen-Z, millennial or a recently separated 40-something, chances are you have heard of or used Tinder enough to understand how brutal dating can be. How many times have you heard comments like “I wish dating would be more natural, more real.” The problem of dating apps, however, is not that they are digital, rather it is that they do not respect the interactions that occur during a casual encounter. If anything, what apps do really well — because they are digital, — provide quick access to large audiences and wider demographics. Without this digital functionality, we would never have a…

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Bitcoin wallet Electrum hit by DoS attack from 140,000-strong botnet

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 3:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The servers of popular Bitcoin wallet Electrum are under heavy attack, and users are advised to be extra careful when using the platform until it’s resolved. A sophisticated botnet of more than 140,000 machines has launched Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on Electrum‘s servers, with apparent intent to direct users to compromised versions of the software designed to steal their Bitcoin. Bad actors have even deployed their own Electrum servers hosting “backdoored” versions of the Electrum client en masse. If a user successfully syncs their vulnerable Electrum wallet with a malicious server (hundreds detected so far), they’re instructed to “update” their client with a hacked version.…

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TNW2019 Daily: Over 300 speakers confirmed!

Apr08
by on April 8, 2019 at 1:49 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider, TNW2019


Fun fact: 31 days is the gestation period of a baby chipmunk, and it’s also the amount of days left until TNW Conference! Coincidence? Probably. 300 speakers and counting 300 is the name of a movie, and it’s also the amount of speakers we have confirmed so far for TNW Conference! That’s definitely a coincidence, but it’s true. We recently confirmed some really cool names, including: Michael Gidney, CEO of the Fairtrade Foundation Harley Finkelstein, COO of Shopify Priyanka Carr, SVP at SurveyMonkey Check out the full list of speakers, and stay tuned for even more amazing names! Speaker spotlight:…

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