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Silo is part Amazon Echo, part vacuum sealer, all crazy

Nov13
by on November 13, 2018 at 10:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Here’s something that I think is true (but also isn’t true). Somewhere, there’s a dark basement with a monkey and a typewriter. Amidst flinging his own shit and screeching hysterically, the monkey spends his days pounding furiously on that typewriter. Then, at the end of each day, someone picks up the papers strewn haphazardly across the floor and types them into Kickstarter, all in the hope that it’ll land them their millions. At least, that’s my theory of how Silo came to be, which is part vacuum-sealer, part Amazon Echo. Yeah, you read that right. Weird, isn’t it? Like Doug…

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Digital rights groups demand Facebook let you appeal removed posts

Nov13
by on November 13, 2018 at 9:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


A group of 88 civil liberties groups have penned an open letter to Facebook requesting the company allow users to appeal whenever their posts are removed — an option they currently do not have. The groups — which include the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Digital Rights Foundation — address CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking that he include an option for the site’s users to defend themselves against potentially unnecessary censorship. Facebook revealed more about its internal enforcement rules earlier this year, breaking them down into different categories with specific instructions about which posts…

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Apple’s Jony Ive designed a diamond ring that’s literally all diamond

Nov13
by on November 13, 2018 at 7:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Jony Ive is best known for his role defining Apple’s hardware aesthetics, but every once in a while he dabbles in design outside of Cupertino. Case in point: Ive and long-time collaborator Marc Newson created a diamond ring. Not just any diamond ring – it’s made entirely out of diamond. It’s expected to sell for $150,000 to $250,000 at a Sotheby’s auction in Miami on December 5. I can’t say it’s the most attractive ring I’ve ever seen, but I doubt there’ll be any problem selling it – and it’s for a good cause. As with previous Ive auctions – like a shiny…

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Here’s why it is unsurprising that China, the US, and Russia didn’t sign the global cyber security pact

Nov13
by on November 13, 2018 at 7:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, world


On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron released an international agreement on cyber security principles at the Paris Peace Forum. While the pact was signed by 51 countries, 130 global companies and 90 charitable groups and universities, the five most notorious countries in cyber warfare refused to sign. Microsoft is proud to be one of the 370 signatories of @EmmanuelMacron’s Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace – an important step on the path towards digital peace.https://t.co/nzKN1Ux9fi — Brad Smith (@BradSmi) November 12, 2018 The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, as the pact has been called, is…

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BREAKING: Google hacked to promote Bitcoin scam on Twitter

Nov13
by on November 13, 2018 at 7:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


In the latest in a string of cryptocurrency-related hackings on Twitter, attackers have breached an official Google account to promote a Bitcoin giveaway scam to its over 800,000 followers. The official G Suite Twitter account just blasted the following message to hundreds of thousands of users: Hard Fork has yet to confirm for how long the tweet remained on G Suite’s feed, but it was no less than 11 minutes (as you can notie on the screenshot. (Update 19:52 UTC, November 13: Ernst Mulders, who provided the screenshot above, told Hard Fork the tweet disappeared a couple of minutes after…

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