Instagram kept your DMs and pics long after you deleted them

Aug14
by on August 14, 2020 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Apps


It seems Instagram wasn’t quite honest with its users when it gave them the option to permanently delete their messages and photos. Security researcher Saugat Pokharel has clinched a $6,000 bug bounty after noticing that the service kept messages and photos on its servers long after users wiped them, TechCrunch reports. The discovery was possible thanks to Instagram‘s own data download tool, which the company released in 2018 to comply with GDPR. It’s pretty standard practice for companies to retain freshly deleted data on their servers until it can be properly wiped. Instagram says it takes 90 days to fully erase…

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Check out these lesser-known Python features

Aug13
by on August 13, 2020 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Design & Dev, syndication


When I learn about a new feature in Python or I notice that a few others are unaware of that feature, I make a note of it. Over the last few weeks, there have been a few interesting features that I myself recently learned about. Here is a quick look at these features, and a rundown of each. [Read: A look at the best new features in Python 3.9] divmod This is a very useful function. The divmod() function performs a modulus division % on two numbers, then returns both the quotient and remainder. For example: divmod(5, 2) [Out]: (2,…

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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Nasdaq-listed company buys $250M of Bitcoin to dodge inflation’

Aug12
by on August 12, 2020 at 9:32 am
Posted In: Hard Fork


Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Habermass used to say: Shleppppppp it! Bitcoin price We closed the day, August 11 2020, at a price of $11,410. That’s a notable 3.96 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$471.11. It was the lowest closing price in six days. We’re still 43 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin‘s market cap ended the day at $210,616,121,945.…

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