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MEGA’s Chrome extension laced with cryptocurrency-stealing malware

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 9:52 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The threats to your cryptocurrency are coming in quick! File-sharing service MEGA has been hacked to steal private keys and passwords, TorrentFreak reports. MEGA has given details of a targeted attack, in which hackers managed to upload a malicious version of its Chrome browser extension to Google’s Play Store. For five hours, any user who ran the installer from the Play Store had their accounts compromised. Services affected include popular cryptocurrency wallet services MyEtherWallet (MEW), MyMonero, and decentralized asset exchange IDEX. Tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were also specifically targeted. There is currently no reliable information regarding how many…

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Razer’s second gaming phone will struggle to find anything more than a niche

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 9:42 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Gaming phones are a strange experiment in the mobile market. I can see them being either wildly successful or abject failures in the coming years. I guess this is why I’m simultaneously intrigued and puzzled by the announcement of the Razer Phone 2. Razer, if you’re unaware, is a Singaporean company and one of the biggest gaming hardware brands around – making laptops, computers, and peripherals. But, last year, it dipped its toes in the phone market with (arguably) the first modern mobile device aimed at gamers, the Razer Phone. (Side note: N-Gage lovers, please don’t @ me, I did say…

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Instagram is changing the way we experience art

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 9:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media, syndication


With 1 billion users and growing, it was perhaps inevitable that Instagram would shake up the art world. The social photo platform has been accused by the media of fanning a narcissistic selfie culture. But in galleries, research is showing that the negative aspects are far outweighed by the positive. Instagram is changing the way we experience and share our visits to exhibitions, and how we perceive art. In fact, arts institutions are now actively courting Instagram users. The Museum of Ice Cream in the US is considered one of the most Instagrammed exhibitions, with over 125,000 hashtagged posts. The…

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Purism will ship its privacy-focused Librem 5 phone next April

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 7:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Over the past few years, San Francisco-based hardware startup Purism has been working on a phone that promises more privacy and security than the rest. It now has a shipping date for its crowdfunded Librem 5: April 2019. The company, which also makes a range of laptops that run on the company’s Linux-based PureOS, previously raised some $2.6 million from backers to build the Librem 5. The idea is to avoid using Android and instead offer an alternative based on a more private, free, and open-source platform to prevent owners from being tracked or spied on. To that end, the…

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The rise of fertility apps highlights serious issues with contraceptives today

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 7:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Many women have made a dramatic change in their use of contraceptives of late. Specifically, use of “contraceptive apps” such as Natural Cycles, a smartphone app that predicts the days on which a woman is fertile and can be used for contraception (as well as planning pregnancy), is on the rise. By closely tracking a woman’s cycle and temperature, such apps designate unprotected sex safe or unsafe each day. When unsafe, the use of barrier methods of protection is advised. Natural Cycles was developed by CERN scientist Elina Berglund and her husband, Raoul Scherwitzl, whose scientific background has lent the…

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