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The BBC reports that a thief has been emptying gym patrons' accounts by stealing their bank card and mobile phone, registering the account to the thief's own mobile, and emptying the victims' bank accounts. The thief works around 2-factor authentication by taking advantage of the victim's phone having been configured to show notifications on the lock screen, so the thief can view the 2FA credential even though they don't have the unlock code.
The article gives instructions on how to disable notifications on the lock screen, for both iPhone and Android.
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles potato crisps that he asked his family to bury him in one.
His children honored his request. Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can — along with a regular urn containing the rest — in his grave at Arlington Memorial Gardens in Springfield Township.
Dr. Baur, a retired organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Procter & Gamble, died May 4 at 89.
He developed many products, including frying oils and a freeze-dried ice cream, for P&G.
But the Pringles can was his proudest accomplishment, his daughter said. He received a patent for the package as well as the method of packaging Pringles in 1970.
Here's the full obit.
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Reuters reports that the next Space Shuttle mission may have to be deferred if it gets too close to the New Year because the onboard computers do not handle the changing of the date in the same way as the ground computers.
From the article: 'The shuttle computers were never envisioned to fly through a year-end changeover,' space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale told a briefing. The problem, according to Hale, is that the shuttle's computers do not reset to day one, as ground-based systems that support shuttle navigation do. Instead, after December 31, the 365th day of the year, shuttle computers figure January 1 is just day 366.
