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  1. How many times? on Energy Drinks May Trigger Future Substance Use, Says Study (medscape.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Correlation causation. Correlation causation. Correlation causation. The original article acknowledges this and it does not reach that conclusion. Yet, the title reads "energy drinks MAY trigger future substance use". By the same logic I guess we can also say "eating vegetables may trigger schizophrenia" or "eating hamburgers may trigger a healthy lifestyle" or "doing drugs may trigger a happy and fruitful life" or "staring at the sun may trigger improved gaming skills". Those are all true statements, aren't they?

  2. Misleading title on Playing Action Video Games May Be Bad For Your Brain, Study Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As usual, news sites like make catchy titles on scientific articles while ignoring important information. From the abstract: "These results show that video games can be beneficial or detrimental to the hippocampal system depending on the navigation strategy that a person employs and the genre of the game." So that doesn't mean that playing video games shrinks your brain, does it.

  3. This hack requires the victim to be connected to an usecure (or spoofed) wifi network (+ a vulnerable app).

  4. Re: As an app developer... on Dozens of Popular iOS Apps Vulnerable To Intercept of TLS-Protected Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you sure about that? You can definitely pin certificates in iOS. The trustkit library provides an implementation, for example.