Twitter is continuing its ill-advised rebranding us ax with a mixed degree of
success I'm James tribe this is techlinked and the iconic dictionary
changing tweet has been renamed to the utterly generic post very zuckerbergian
similarly the once free to use tweet deck is now available as X pro not to be
confused with x-pro mit's online learning program xpro the Chinese dirt
bike brand x-pro the crypto token X pro the laptop or xpro the photographic
technique otherwise known as cross processing while X was initially unable
to change its name on the Apple App Store due to having fewer than two
characters Apple has now made an exception inflicting the rebranding on
iPhone users everywhere last week Elon Musk tried and failed to remove the
Twitter sign from X headquarters without a permit musk Having learned exactly
nothing then had workers erect a giant flashing X on the roof directly facing a
residential building across the street it too has been removed at x-corps
expense worry not musk fans because X has introduced its hottest new feature
to date the ability to hide the blue check mark indicating that you actually
paid for this tomfoolery like The Scarlet Letter it is shame is a feature
not a bug a recently Declassified report revealed that U.S intelligence agencies
are purchasing large amounts of sensitive and intimate information that
could be used to facilitate blackmail if it fell into the wrong hands raising the
question of whether shadowy government spies should be described as the right
hands depends how soft are they now new legislation proposed by Congress would
restrict all government agencies from purchasing data from private vendors
that would otherwise require a warrant to obtain the government agency most
displeased with the news is exactly the one you'd expect the fish and wildlife
service actually it's the NSA representatives of the NSA have
apparently reached out to lawmakers to express concerns that these legal
changes could restrict their ability to conduct Mass surveillance on U.S
citizens without having to convince a judge for first to be fair NSA lawyers
have reportedly created extensive internal guidelines for the collection
of commercially available data and I tell you what they are but they're
classified the cyberspace administration of China
or CAC has proposed regulations that
would dramatically curtail internet use among the country's miners 16 to 18 year
olds get two hours per day one hour if
you're 8 to 16 and users under eight get
just eight minutes combine that with forbidding any miners from internet
usage between the hours of 10 pm and 6 a.m and I'm guessing someone high in the
Chinese government is tired of being woken up by their toddler's blasting
baby shark at 3am in the morning I know I am in an official statement the CAC
said the regulations are to help minors reduce internet addiction and the
influence of bad information I'm just gonna carefully sidestep over the ladder
Point like the landmine it is and focus on the addiction part of that statement
in the past China has also cracked down on online gaming addiction by
restricting miners to an hour a day on Fridays weekends and public holidays
kids aren't the only ones upset 10 cent and bite dance are some of the many Tech
firms whose stocks have dropped since the announcement won't someone think of
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so you better cough and back up before I start the Heimlich maneuver
it's crotch to buns Apple has announced it will now be requiring developers
submitting their apps to the Apple Store to justify their use of certain apis in
an attempt to quash certain forms of user tracking the concern here is that
some developers might be misusing these tools as a loophole to get away with
fingerprinting users as in attempting to create unique identifiers for users or
their devices without permission it's like getting fingerprinted in real life
except it lacks the rare opportunity to feel a police officer hold your hand but
gently oh officer Brian the way he rolled it across the pad let's share a
donut later a new Android malware called Cherry Bloss can steal user credentials
using optical character recognition and
is inside at least four apps available to download from sites promoting get
rich quick schemes if a user infected with cherry Bloss opens a legitimate
cryptocurrency service the malware overlay a window that mimics the app
snap a photo when you enter your credentials and then use Optical Care
character recognition to recognize the displayed text and give it to the
attacker if you feel misled by those get rich quick schemes they weren't lying to
you they just never specified who was getting rich today twitch announced that
it will be expanding its ban on gambling live streams to two additional online
casinos and prohibiting promotion of Cs go skin gambling sites claiming that
gambling viewership has dropped by around 75 percent since it implemented
its new policy last October this coincides with a survey from YouTuber
Hong kongya or something that suggests over 70 percent of Cs go skin gamblers
start before they're the age of 18. he also created a new steam account and
accessed unregistered casinos without ever passing an age gate under the
username I'm 14 BTW maybe they knew he
was lying after losing contact with the Voyager 2
last month NASA finally reconnected with the probe this Tuesday the silence
started when a wrong command tilted the
Voyager 2's antenna away from Earth preventing it from receiving additional
instructions or sending any data back or maybe NASA said something hurtful and
Voyager 2 just needed some time for itself but what more does it need we've
already given it space 12.3 billion miles of it we're trying to make this
work here semiconductor manufacturer Infineon will soon offer biodegradable
circuit boards that dissolve in hot water making them not just recyclable
but compostable too but worry not your computer is not likely to decompose on a
humid summer day in Delhi the solu Board needs to be immersed in near boiling
water for half an hour before it starts to delaminate face it if you're
regularly steeping your motherboard like a forgotten tea bag
your warranty is pretty much toast anyways it's got to be in there for at least 60 minutes to get the full flavor
Steve and tea and toast sounds like a perfect snack for when you come back on
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