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  1. It is good Google gave up with the "Do not do evil" mantra, because helping the High Frequency Trading crowd is definitively bad for almost everyone.

  2. Be your own boss on Amazon Wants You To Start a Business To Deliver Its Packages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have $10,000 and want to be your own boss, Amazon has a deal for you.

    Be your own boss while you are an Amazon contractor? Who believe such a bad joke?

  3. Coming or not? on 128TB SD Cards Are Coming (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If I read the summary correctly, we are far from having even a dozen terrabyte on a SD. Title is badly chosen.

  4. Third party on Ticketmaster UK Admits Personal Data Stolen In Hack Attack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Malicious software on third-party customer support product Inbenta Technologies caused the hack

    The term "third party" suggests Inbenta operates the service and would be somehow liable. But if Ticketmaster operated it on its own, there is no Inbenta liability. The article is not clear about the situation.

  5. I searched my addresses with Have I Been Pwned, and I get breaches from services I never used. That sounds low quality stuff.

    The funniest point is report about password leak for an address for which the account has no password (only RSA key)

  6. Venezuela vs US on Venezuela Is Blocking Access To the Tor Network (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    While I am not fond of Internet blocking, my understanding is that Venezuela must try to fend fierce psyops attacks from the CIA, that this is one of the tools available.

    Remember when Obama declared Venezuela a national security threat? If the CIA does its job correctly, it must be trying to destroy Venezuela state since that time.

  7. rules that would block firms with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying companies

    What if the official owner is in a fiscal heaven where the real owner is completely hidden?

  8. Intel cannot postpone a crash with a truth that has been in the air for the last 20 years: x86 architecture is a beast of the past.

    At once accumulated expertise on it made it win over new designs, but it is not the case anymore.

  9. The news is sitting next to Another one about AT&T. Perhaps they should invite AT&T executives?

  10. Ticks will save the planet on Red Meat Allergies Caused By Tick Bites Are On The Rise (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We all know we eat too much meat for the practice to be sustainable, but even once one admit it, it is not easy to give it up.

    But here come ticks to the rescue. Once allergic to meat it is much easier to become vegan. Ticks will save the planet!

  11. While the repair and replacement program covers costs and notes that Apple will repair both single keys as well as whole keyboards when necessary, it doesn't note whether the replacements will be a different, improved design that will prevent the problem from happening again

    If Apple covers the cost, it would be a stupid idea from them to make partial fixes that will break again, and cost them again.

  12. Experts on WHO Gaming Disorder Listing a 'Moral Panic', Say Experts (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The decision to class gaming addiction as a mental health disorder was "premature" and based on a "moral panic," experts have said.

    This is a misleading sentence suggesting WHO had no experts working on it./p

  13. You better know the composition and structural strength if you're going to decide that a nuclear blast would do more good than harm.

    I do not know if a nuclear blast is the right approach. I am just confident this is the one that will be chosen.

  14. For a hypothetical attempt to send a spacecraft to divert an seriously dangerous incoming asteroid, we'll need a ten year heads-up

    I am certain it would take less than a few weeks to decide a nuclear strike against an asteroid.

  15. Minecraft for the Nintendo Switch is getting a big update today that will enable cross-play with PC, Xbox One, and smartphones -- but notably not the PlayStation 4.

    Mac is also absent.

  16. We should not worry with EU anymore. One by one, people of member countries elect government hostile to the Union. At some time one will manage to destroy the whole structure. Latest challenger is Italy.

  17. Art of debate on New IBM Robot Holds Its Own In a Debate With a Human (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The AI isn't trained on topics -- it's trained on the art of debate.

    Does that means it uses ad nominem attacks when he runs out of good points?

  18. Space force for what enemy? on President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch (defensenews.com) · · Score: 1

    What enemy will the space force fight? Rosewell creatures? Or perhaps Mars rover discovered bacteria in the soil and it is urgent to prepare for an interplanetary fight against them?

  19. Bot-written news? on How the World Cup Plays Out Among Hackers (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect TFA was written by a bot. It contains almost no information, and just rehash stuff we heard recently: World cup, Russian hackers.

  20. Re:What about that SCOTUS decision? on Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong To Just One Company (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    For areas beyond national jurisdiction like the high seas, though, there is currently little legal precedent to draw on—“very patchwork legislation,” Blasiak says.

    But patent litigation happens in national courts. SCOTUS decision means the US DNA patents are invalid in a US court. And since they are US patents, they are also invalid in a non US court.

    Perhaps BASF/Monsanto plans to lobby legislators to make the patent legal after they purchased it? It seemed to be the strategy for software patent in EU at some time.

  21. Horrible year on Another Day, Another Intel CPU Security Hole: Lazy State (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA says "What a horrible year in security for Intel".

    It was mostly horrible for Intel's customers.

  22. Of course they have no evidence Kaspersky sells malware. The only evidence we have here is that some members of EU parliament are working under US influence.

    US banned Kaspersky because it discovered post-Snowden NSA hacking tools. What reason EU would have to follow the US ban? Spotting new NSA hacking tool should rather be a good selling point for non US countries, since they are the victims of such tools.

  23. This is not how the internet works, you can't force a site who sells a service to have s physical presence in every country on Earth just because some random government has decided it wants the ability to spy on their own people.

    Yeah, it works by storing data in a foreign country where the government has the ability to spy on every people.

  24. Could be improved on FBI Recovers $14M From Bogus Business Account Wire Transfers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    While $12 million USD were recovered, we are told:

    since the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) began formally keeping track of BEC and its variant, email account compromise (EAC), there has been a loss of over $3.7 billion reported to the IC3

    $12 million over $3.7 billion, that is a 0.3% recovery. I am not sure it will frighten fraudsters.

  25. Re:The stock market has been crzay..... on Defying Skeptics, Twitter Stock Surges 60% in 2018 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Twitter is the epitome of modern tech: Multi-billion dollar valuation yet the company makes no profit, has never made a profit, and has no plans to make a profit in the foreseeable future.

    TFA says "Twitter reported an actual profit for the past two quarters". But your description fits Uber accurately.