Comment Re:I Wonder Why? (Score 1) 95
Did the Cloudera exec who implemented this policy have anything in common with the candidates who the policy DID select...?
Comment Re:If it's free... (Score 4, Informative) 57
Niantic started life as an internal team at Google working on monetising location data. Being a revenue centre was the whole point from day one.
Only the "delivery robots" bit of this is actually news. Niantic being a datamining operation that tricked its users into scanning the real world for it is not. Hell Zuboff devoted a chunk of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" to it and that book came out in 2019.
Comment 36 gigawatts? The Doc would have something to say (Score 2) 83
I mean, you only need 1.21 gigawatts to fucking travel through time!
Comment Re:What if you don't want or need credit? (Score 1) 50
It certainly will not. It is trivial to tell the difference between credit and debit cards just from the first handful of digits on the cards. Search for BIN in relation to payment cards to learn more.
Comment Any merchant can tell the difference (Score 1) 50
Yep. The BIN (first 6-8 digits) of the card not only tells you the bank. It tells you if the card is prepaid, debit or credit.
Comment Re:What if you don't want or need credit? (Score 1) 50
The BIN (first 6-8 digits) of the carx not only tells you the bank. It tells you if the card is prepaid, debit or credit.
Comment Re:They will not present as a credit card (Score 1) 50
To add to this, kids can have debit cards, they cannot get credit cards in the UK. Getting a line of credit from abroad would likely be even harder.
Comment They will not present as a credit card (Score 1) 50
Those will not have a credit card BIN and thus be distinguishable as debit cards.
Submission + - Satire is Dead (jpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Toronto International Film Festival withdraws Oct. 7 documentary The Road Between Us because filmmakers didn't receive permission from Hamas to use the attack videos.
Submission + - AI is reshaping hacking. No one agrees how fast. (axios.com)
alternative_right writes: Cybercriminals are already leaning on open-source LLMs to build tools that can scan internet-connected devices to see if they have vulnerabilities, discover zero-day bugs, and write malware.
Comment Re:Huawei and Harmony OS (Score 2) 46
Do you want to be the one who audits the code for all the CCP backdoors? And even then a lot of people would probably never trust it.
Submission + - UK orders Apple to give it access to users' encrypted accounts (reuters.com)
Bruce66423 writes: Britain has ordered Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple's data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday.
The UK government's "technical capability notice" requires blanket access rather than merely assistance to access a specific account, the paper reported, citing unnamed sources.
Governments routinely ask technology companies for user data to crack criminal cases, but Britain's sweeping demand, issued last month, has no known precedent in major democracies, the Post said.'
Not even a reference to the need to protect children! Amazing.
The UK government's "technical capability notice" requires blanket access rather than merely assistance to access a specific account, the paper reported, citing unnamed sources.
Governments routinely ask technology companies for user data to crack criminal cases, but Britain's sweeping demand, issued last month, has no known precedent in major democracies, the Post said.'
Not even a reference to the need to protect children! Amazing.
Comment Ah Startpage, that other BING front end (Score 2) 40
You do realise they increasingly shift to using Bing, right. They have been for a while and often their results are identical to DDG and Bing these days.
Comment They are shifting to Bing (Score 1) 40
The mention it here
https://support.startpage.com/...
Often their results are a carbon copy of Bing these days
Comment Startpage does not get all its results from Google (Score 1) 40
The increasingly leverage Bing. Indeed sometimes the results you get are identical to Bing. Don't believe they use Bing. Read their own page about this
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