Hacker News
- New Netflix UI forgets where you were in a video to ‘help’ you https://thestack.com/world/2016/11/30/coming-soon-new-netflix-ui-forgets-where-you-were-in-a-video-to-help-you/ 2 comments
- LinkedIn accesses Gmail contacts via ‘auto-authorization’ https://thestack.com/security/2016/10/06/linkedin-accesses-gmail-contacts-via-auto-authorization/ 47 comments
- EU Paramount/Sky ruling may end geoblocking within Europe https://thestack.com/cloud/2016/07/26/eu-paramountsky-ruling-may-end-geoblocking-within-europe/ 28 comments
- Car salesman asks customer to tick reCAPTCHA box… on paper https://thestack.com/security/2018/05/22/car-salesman-asks-customer-to-tick-recaptcha-box-on-paper/ 15 comments nottheonion
- Apple patents Roman-style scroll device with flexible OLED screen https://thestack.com/world/2017/03/02/apple-patents-roman-style-scroll-device-with-flexible-oled-screen/ 18 comments apple
- LinkedIn accesses Gmail contacts via ‘auto-authorization’ https://thestack.com/security/2016/10/06/linkedin-accesses-gmail-contacts-via-auto-authorization/ 12 comments privacy
- GCHQ planning UK-wide DNS ‘firewall’ https://thestack.com/security/2016/09/14/gchq-planning-uk-wide-dns-firewall/ 22 comments europe
- GCHQ planning UK-wide DNS ‘firewall’ https://thestack.com/security/2016/09/14/gchq-planning-uk-wide-dns-firewall/ 29 comments worldnews
- GCHQ planning UK-wide DNS ‘firewall’ GCHQ will work to filter out websites and email campaigns which are known to contain malicious content. The intelligence organisation believes that the best to way to set up such a blockade would be to build a national domain name system (DNS). https://thestack.com/security/2016/09/14/gchq-planning-uk-wide-dns-firewall/ 6 comments technology
- FlyWeb: We don't need no stinking IoT apps https://thestack.com/iot/2016/07/26/firefox-flyweb-offers-platform-agnostic-iot-interactions/ 16 comments firefox
- The official uninstallers that Adobe supplied for those wishing to remove the plugin from their Windows installation have for some time been supplying hackers with a ‘privilege escalation’ attack vector https://thestack.com/security/2016/06/17/official-adobe-flash-uninstallers-were-a-security-hazard/ 2 comments webdev
- Blocking adblock users results in visitor decline https://thestack.com/world/2016/04/21/sites-that-block-adblockers-seem-to-be-suffering/ 235 comments technology
- Amazon wants to replace passwords with selfies and videos https://thestack.com/security/2016/03/15/amazon-wants-to-replace-passwords-with-selfies-and-videos/ 36 comments programming
- What Airbnb’s blockchain proposal means for privacy https://thestack.com/security/2016/03/09/what-airbnbs-blockchain-authentication-proposal-means-for-privacy-online/ 3 comments ethereum
- Japan considers treating Bitcoin as real money https://thestack.com/world/2016/02/24/japan-considers-treating-bitcoin-as-real-money/ 107 comments worldnews
- Intel says chips to become slower but more energy efficient https://thestack.com/iot/2016/02/05/intel-william-holt-moores-law-slower-energy-efficient-chips/ 353 comments hardware
- Apple Purchases AI company Emotient to read users’ expressions https://thestack.com/world/2016/01/08/apple-purchases-ai-company-emotient-to-read-users-expressions/ 13 comments technology
- Chubb to offer UK ‘troll insurance’ policy https://thestack.com/security/2015/12/10/chubb-to-offer-uk-troll-insurance-policy/ 7 comments nottheonion
- Keep two bank accounts, says Bank of England adviser https://thestack.com/security/2015/12/03/keep-two-bank-accounts-to-beat-cyber-attacks-says-bank-of-england-adviser/ 3 comments btc
- Apple to introduce OLED displays in iPhones https://thestack.com/world/2015/11/26/apple-looks-to-introduce-oled-displays-in-iphone-models-from-2018/ 17 comments apple
- Apple's iOS 9 breaks VPNs https://thestack.com/security/2015/09/21/apples-ios-9-breaks-vpns/ 7 comments privacy
- Lightning damages Cloud storage at Google http://thestack.com/lightning-wipes-storage-disks-google-data-center-190815 13 comments technology
- AI research's radical new approach to optimisation improves 100,000 times at reconstructing 3D images from 2D http://thestack.com/ai-research-3d-2d-data-180815 6 comments artificial
- Facial recognition as part of identity/anti-sybil network/dapp http://thestack.com/mastercard-online-payments-selfies-020715 23 comments ethereum
- Hackers exploit MacKeeper flaw with new Mac OS malware http://thestack.com/hackers-exploit-mackeeper-hole-mac-os-malware-230615 3 comments apple
- Chief Toyota engineer sees no practical future for electric cars http://thestack.com/toyota-engineer-no-practical-future-electric-cars-160415 47 comments technology
- Uber absolves itself of Delhi rape driver responsibility http://thestack.com/uber-delhi-rape-court-request-070415 3 comments worldnews
- ‘Create unrest’: Canada’s CSE agency includes ‘false flag’ operations as part of newly-revealed cyberwarfare scope http://thestack.com/communications-security-establishment-canada-nsa-snowden2-230315 44 comments worldnews
- Ex-NSA researcher says that Apple’s insecure app-downloads enable Windows-style ‘dylib’ exploits http://thestack.com/patrick-wardle-osx-dylib-dll-vulnerability-170315 10 comments apple
- Apple system-wide exploit and possible avenue for NSA backdoors in any app http://thestack.com/patrick-wardle-osx-dylib-dll-vulnerability-170315 309 comments technology
- Belarus bans Tor and all anonymising internet technologies http://thestack.com/belarus-bans-tor-250215 3 comments technology
- Russia readying for attempt to ban Tor, VPNs and other anonymising tools http://thestack.com/russia-ban-tor-vpn-roskomnadzor-110215 55 comments russia
- Russia readying for attempt to ban Tor, VPNs and other anonymising tools http://thestack.com/russia-ban-tor-vpn-roskomnadzor-110215 74 comments europe
- Russia readying for attempt to ban Tor, VPNs, etc. http://thestack.com/russia-ban-tor-vpn-roskomnadzor-110215 3 comments technology
- German underground bunker refitted as low-oxygen, low-staff nuclear-proof data centre (x-post from r/technology) http://thestack.com/erwin-borfink-data-center-germany-290115 8 comments sysadmin
- Moscow to track cell-phone users in 2015, to aid traffic analysis http://thestack.com/moscow-tracks-cell-phone-users-traffic-analysis-200115 6 comments russia
- Sharks keep chewing into the 5 cables that connect all of Vietnam to the Internet http://thestack.com/vietnam-asia-america-gateway-break-outage-internet-050115 40 comments technology
- 81% of Tor users can be de-anonymised by analysing router information, research indicates http://thestack.com/chakravarty-tor-traffic-analysis-141114 96 comments technology
- 81% of Tor users can be de-anonymised by analysing router information, research indicates http://thestack.com/chakravarty-tor-traffic-analysis-141114 6 comments privacy
- Malware of the future checks if it's inside the Matrix... http://thestack.com/mimicry-in-malware-giovanni-vigna-081014 70 comments netsec