Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Cloud security Microsoft style:

 

[Free]

Everyone, just run your entire business in the cloud!

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

And now for an important message of Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft:

 

[Free]

Flying Microchips The Size Of A Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance

Northwestern University says these are the world's smallest human-made flying structures, and they could be used for monitoring the environment, population surveillance or disease tracking.

www.npr.org

There you crazies, they don't need to put the chip IN YOU to keep track of you.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I mean, they're microchips so they can really be used for, quite literally, absolutely anything you might use a computer to do?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

I mean, they're microchips so they can really be used for, quite literally, absolutely anything you might use a computer to do?

Like, managing my recipes?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Flying Microchips The Size Of A Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance

Northwestern University says these are the world's smallest human-made flying structures, and they could be used for monitoring the environment, population surveillance or disease tracking.

www.npr.org

They "fly" like sycamore seeds "fly". Downwards. That's not flying, that's falling with style.

 

[Free]

They "fly" like sycamore seeds "fly". Downwards. That's not flying, that's falling with style.

"Nothing stays up forever." ~Gravity

 

[Khamon]

that depends on one's definition of "up"

 

[bubblesort]

I'm reading up on crypto, and stumbled across this article:

Deep-Fake Andre Cronje Imposter Defrauded Crypto Startup

The Blackswan token team has revealed that they fell victim to a scam, resulting in the siphoning of $30,000 worth of tokens.

www.financemagnates.com

They impersonated this big bitcoin barron, not just with things like photos of his passport, but also with a deep faked skype call, in order to begin the process of some kind of business merger or alliance, and took 30k USD from the target firm.

I knew live deep fake software is a thing, but I had no idea it was that good. Also, I'm kinda surprised that the bitcoin community doesn't use strong public key encryption and proper opsec. Aren't they all supposed to be crazy paranoid? I guess not.

 

[danielravennest]

I knew live deep fake software is a thing, but I had no idea it was that good. Also, I'm kinda surprised that the bitcoin community doesn't use strong public key encryption and proper opsec. Aren't they all supposed to be crazy paranoid? I guess not.

Bitcoin transactions (that appear on the blockchain), do use public/private key pairs. That's how you ensure that only the owner of the coins is allowed to spend them. While the creators and early users of bitcoin were savvy about encryption and data security, nowadays any idiot can buy them and use poorly coded apps to handle them. That's why we regularly see articles about cryptocurrency getting stolen.

 

[Free]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Phone repair guys are jumping in joy, though.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

You can now buy a keyboard that only copies and pastes

(Okay, it can do other things too.)

www.theverge.com

No longer just an April Fool's joke.

Stack Overflow The Key Macropad | Drop

This fully programmable macropad can be configured to perform virtually any key command. The Stack Overflow Macropad comes with Kailh Box Black switches.

drop.com

 

[bubblesort]

A few years ago, during my last semester in college, Yik Yak was everywhere. It was like what AIM was in the late 90s/early 2000s. Everything on campus was organized on Yik Yak, from parties to protests. Then it imploded because parents were complaining about their kids using it in middle school and high school.

Looks like it's coming back, though! The demand for anonymous chat services like this is exploding right now, and it's only going to get bigger. I think parents are more accepting of anonymous services like this, when the alternative is risking your kid getting doxxed every time they say something dumb (and they are always saying something dumb).

https://www.redandblack.com/culture/a-controversial-return-anonymous-social-media-app-yik-yak-makes-a-comeback-at-uga/article_692b0462-1be7-11ec-9ec6-07c3f67aa6f1.html

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Oh it gets better.

Vancouver-based Link Global set up four 1.25 MW gas generators at a site in Sturgeon County last year, about 10 kilometres from the northwest outskirts of Edmonton.

Coastal elites set up shop in redneck area.

Spoiler

The generators drew power from a dormant natural gas well (owned by Calgary-based company MAGA Energy) to run computers that mine digital currency.

 

[Noodles]

I am so tired of this Crypto nonsense.