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Comment Why not go all the way to fully reflective ? (Score 1) 139

This super white paint is neat and all, but personally, I think we should just go all the way to fully reflective paint. Imagine walking up to your house and it's so super shiny and reflective, it looks like an alien space craft has landed. How cool would that be?

Comment Re:And This (Score 1) 247

by Anonymaus Coward (#61784449) Attached to: China Bans All New Video Games

That or the population might decide they don't like this shit anymore and then the entire country destabilizes.

Doubt it. Chinese people love their precious pooh. They're probably singing praises right now for how smart this movement is by the pooh.

Comment Reflective is better... (Score 1) 154

If you want to really keep the heat out, you go down to Lowes and pick up a couple sheets of R-TECH Insulfoam insulation. You can cut it with a box cutter to match the shape and size of your windows. It has a reflective metallic side that you can use to bounce the sunshine right back outdoors before it turns into heat inside your home. It's much more effective than closing blinds.

Comment Guys, I'm going back to Windows... (Score 1) 96

by Anonymaus Coward (#61507238) Attached to: Microsoft Fights Back Against Windows 11 Leak

Now that this Windows 11 ISO is available to download, I think I'm going to finally ditch Linux and go back to running Windows. Why? Well, after many years of using Linux, I have this nagging feeling that I'm missing out. Say what you will about Microsoft, but their operating system is the only one with with Windows Genuine Advantage. Times are tough, and I need every Advantage I can get. Windows delivers!

Submission + - Fake App On Apple's App Store Scams User Out Of 17.1 Bitcoins ($600,000) (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by phalse phace
phalse phace writes: Phillipe Christodoulou wanted to check his bitcoin balance last month, so he searched the App Store on his iPhone for “Trezor,” the maker of a small hardware device he uses to store his cryptocurrency. Up popped the company’s padlock logo set against a bright green background. The app was rated close to five stars. He downloaded it and typed in his credentials.

In less than a second, nearly all of his life savings — 17.1 bitcoin worth $600,000 at the time — was gone. The app was a fake, designed to trick people into thinking it was a legitimate app.

But Christodoulou is angrier at Apple than at the thieves themselves: He says Apple marketed the App Store as a safe and trusted place, where each app is reviewed before it is allowed in the store.

Apple bills its App Store as “the world’s most trusted marketplace for apps,” where every submission is scanned and reviewed, ensuring they are safe, secure, useful and unique. But in fact, it’s easy for scammers to circumvent Apple’s rules, according to experts. Criminal app developers can break Apple’s rules by submitting seemingly innocuous apps for approval and then transforming them into phishing apps that trick people into giving up their information, according to Apple. When Apple finds out, it removes the apps and bans the developers, the company says. But it’s too late for the people who fell for the scam.

Submission + - U.S. intelligence officials say Chinese government is collecting Americans' DNA (cbsnews.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The largest biotech firm in the world wasted no time in offering to build and run COVID testing labs in Washington, contacting its governor right after the first major COVID outbreak in the U.S. occurred there. The Chinese company, the BGI Group, made the same offer to at least five other states, including New York and California, 60 Minutes has learned.

This, along with other COVID testing offers by BGI, so worried Bill Evanina, then the country's top counterintelligence officer, that he authorized a rare public warning. "Foreign powers can collect, store and exploit biometric information from COVID tests" declared the notice. Evanina believes the Chinese are trying to collect Americans' DNA to win a race to control the world's biodata.

Jon Wertheim speaks to Evanina and others for an investigation into how personal data, particularly biodata, has become a precious commodity and in the wrong hands, poses threats to national security and the economy.

Submission + - Facebook's Secret Settlement On Cambridge Analytica Gags UK Data Watchdog (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Remember the app audit Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out a little under three years ago at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Actually the tech giant is very keen that you don’t. The UK’s information commissioner just told a parliamentary subcommittee on online harms and disinformation that a secret arrangement between her office and Facebook prevents her from publicly answering whether or not Facebook contacted the ICO about completing a much-trumpeted ‘app audit’. “I think I could answer that question with you and the committee in private,” information commissioner Elizabeth Denham told questioner, Kevin Brennan, MP.

Pressed on responding, then and there, on the question of whether Facebook ever notified the regulator about completing the app audit — with Brennan pointing out “after all it was a commitment Mark Zuckerberg gave in the public domain before a US Senate committee” — Denham referred directly to a private arrangement with Facebook which she suggested prevented her from discussing such details in public. “It’s part of an agreement that we struck with Facebook,” she told the committee. “In terms of our litigation against Facebook. So there is an agreement that’s not in the public domain and that’s why I would prefer to discuss this in private.”

Submission + - Apple Removes Social Media Platform Wimkin From App Store (wsj.com)

Submitted by phalse phace
phalse phace writes: The WSJ is reporting that Apple has removed the Wimkin app from it's app store.

"The tech giant on Tuesday suspended Wimkin, a small site that markets itself as a free-speech haven, over content that included calls for a civil war and the arrest of Vice President Mike Pence, according to Wimkin founder Jason Sheppard and records of his correspondence with Apple.

Mr. Sheppard said on Thursday that Wimkin’s small team removed dozens of posts and a group attempting to organize a “Million Militia March” at President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week.

In messages to Mr. Sheppard that he shared with The Wall Street Journal, Apple cited one post disputing the Rev. Raphael Warnock’s election as a senator for Georgia this month, saying, “WE NEED A CIVIL WAR AGAINST THESE CROOKS.” Another included faux mug shots of tech executives and accused them of treason and election-tampering.

Mr. Sheppard’s team of five moderators removed these posts, he said, as well as ejecting a group of nearly 400 users organizing a militia gathering on inauguration day to prevent Mr. Biden’s “treasonous and illegitimate” ticket from taking office. The Wimkin team also removed the group administrator’s account.

Mr. Sheppard said Thursday night that he was in contact with Apple officials on possible ways to meet the tech company’s standards and eventually return to the App Store."

Submission + - 'Magic mushrooms' grow in man's blood after injection with shroom tea (livescience.com)

Submitted by John Trumpian
John Trumpian writes: A man brewed a tea from "magic mushrooms" and injected the concoction into his veins; several days later, he ended up at the emergency department with the fungus growing in his blood.

The man spent 22 days in the hospital, with eight of those days in the intensive care unit (ICU), where he received treatment for multisystem organ failure. Now released, he is still being treated with a long-term regimen of antibiotic and antifungal drugs, according to a description of the case published Jan. 11 in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

Submission + - Medical study suggests iPhone 12 with MagSafe can deactivate pacemakers (9to5mac.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: When Apple revived MagSafe with the iPhone 12 lineup, one question brought up was how these latest devices with more magnets would interact with medical devices like pacemakers. Apple’s official word was that iPhone 12/MagSafe wouldn’t interfere more than previous iPhones. Now one of the first medical studies has been published by the Heart Rhythm Journal that saw a Medtronic pacemaker deactivated by holding an iPhone 12 near it (via MacMagazine). It doesn’t sound like there is concrete evidence that iPhone 12 and MagSafe do pose a greater risk of increased interference but with this study out now, we may see more testing in the medical field to find out for sure.

Of course it’s not just iPhones or smartphones that can create interference issues, it can be any item that contains magnets strong enough create a problem.

Submission + - SPAM: NASA is finally ready to test-fire the engines of its SLS megarocket

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes:

The space agency plans to test-fire the four main engines of its first SLS heavy-lift booster on Saturday (Jan. 16) at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. It's a critical test for NASA and the final step in the agency's "Green Run" series of tests to ensure the SLS rocket is ready for its first launch, Artemis 1, that will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the moon later this year.

The SLS is NASA's go-to rocket to send astronauts to the moon by 2024 as part of its Artemis program. Artemis 1 is the first of what's expected to be a series of missions leading up to Artemis 3, NASA's first crewed moon landing since the Apollo era.

In the upcoming hot-fire engine test, engineers will load the Boeing-built SLS core booster with over 700,000 gallons of cryogenic (that's really cold) propellant into the rocket's fuel tanks and light all four of its RS-25 engines at once. The engines will fire for 485 seconds (a little over 8 minutes) and generate a whopping 1.6 million pounds of thrust throughout the test.

$14.8 BILLION worth of efficiency while SpaceX tested the engines of its rocket, three times, in a row, this afternoon.
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Submission + - US Asks Tesla To Recall 158,000 Vehicles For Touchscreen Failures (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Wednesday asked Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles over media control unit (MCU) failures that could pose safety risks by leading to touchscreen displays not working. The auto safety agency made the unusual request in a formal letter to Tesla after upgrading a safety probe in November, saying it had tentatively concluded the 2012-2018 Model S and 2016-2018 Model X vehicles “contain a defect related to motor vehicle safety.”

Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment but it must respond to NHTSA by Jan. 27. If it does not agree it must provide the agency “with a full explanation of its decision.” It is unusual for the agency to formally demand a recall. Automakers typically voluntarily agree to a recall if sought in discussions by regulators. The agency said it sought the recall after considering “Tesla’s technical briefing presentation ... and evaluated Tesla’s assertions.” NHTSA added that “during our review of the data, Tesla provided confirmation that all units will inevitably fail given the memory device’s finite storage capacity.”

Submission + - German Investigators Shut Down Biggest Illegal Marketplace On the Darknet (apnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: German prosecutors said Tuesday that they have taken down what they believe was the biggest illegal marketplace on the darknet and arrested its suspected operator. The site, known as DarkMarket, was shut down on Monday, prosecutors in the southwestern city of Koblenz said. All sorts of drugs, forged money, stolen or forged credit cards, anonymous mobile phone SIM cards and malware were among the things offered for sale there, they added. German investigators were assisted in their months-long probe by U.S. authorities and by Australian, British, Danish, Swiss, Ukrainian and Moldovan police.

The marketplace had nearly 500,000 users and more than 2,400 vendors, prosecutors said. They added that it processed more than 320,000 transactions, and Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrency to the value of more than 140 million euros ($170 million) were exchanged. The suspected operator, a 34-year-old Australian man, was arrested near the German-Danish border. Prosecutors said a judge has ordered him held in custody pending possible formal charges, and he hasn’t given any information to investigators. More than 20 servers in Moldova and Ukraine were seized, German prosecutors said. They hope to find information on those servers about other participants in the marketplace.

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