Troy Hunt, a security researcher who maintains the data breach awareness portal Have I Been Pwned, recently obtained a copy of the stolen data set. Hunt told Motherboard that the data contained 65,469,298 unique emails and passwords.
Source: Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr, New Analysis Reveals | Motherboard
Source: #825394 – systemd kill background processes after user logs out – Debian Bug report logs
And amazingly defends their choice with a “we are wiser than thou, you don’t know what you need” argument whilst telling world + dog how system administration should be done. Idiots. Nobody expects programs on a server to be killed for them and nobody uses Debian for a desktop.
Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego did an experiment to see what could be learned from just the information many cars are already recording. The result was that the way people drove was as identifiable as a fingerprint. […] When it was given data from all 16 sensors for the whole drive, the match was made 100 percent of the time. When it was given data from five sensors, three sensors, and even just the brake pedal, the match was made 100 percent of the time.
On just 15 minutes of data and all 16 sensors, the match was made 100 percent of the time. Just the brake pedal was 87 percent accurate.
This research reveals just how much data your car is actually collecting—and that turning over all that data through apps or insurance company dongles may be revealing more about yourself than you realize. Tesla, with its auto-uploading feature, probably knows a lot about its drivers.
Source: You Can Absolutely Be Identified Just By How You Drive
Redmond assumes closing nagware dialog means ‘yes’, says that’s by design […] Redmond recently created a new Windows 10 nagware reminder that presented a dialog asking you to install the OS. But if users clicked the red “X” to close the dialog – standard behaviour for dispelling a dialog without agreeing to do anything – Microsoft took that as permission for the upgrade.
Source: Microsoft won’t back down from Windows 10 nagware ‘trick’
Fuckers, we don’t want your Windows 10 spyware!
A study into abusive tweets sent from UK Twitter accounts suggests large-scale misogyny, with women responsible for half of such tweets.
Source: Twitter abuse – ‘50% of misogynistic tweets from women’ – BBC News
And men for the other half.
Open access means that scientific publications on the results of research supported by public and public-private funds must be freely accessible to everyone. That is not yet the case. The results of publicly funded research are currently not accessible to people outside universities and knowledge institutions. As a result, teachers, doctors and entrepreneurs do not have access to the latest scientific insights that are so relevant to their work, and universities have to take out expensive subscriptions with publishers to gain access to publications.
Source: All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020
The world’s largest maker of TVs by shipments added new tile ads to the main menu bar of its premium TVs in the U.S. in June 2015 and is planning to expand the program to Europe in coming months, people familiar with the matter said. […] according to one of these people, and by using software updates to retroactively activate tile ads on older smart TV models.
Samsung Adds More Ads to Its TVs – WSJ
http://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-adds-more-ads-to-its-tvs-1464600977
Because really, people are going to buy hardware that forces unwanted ads down your throats! You don’t buy a TV as a service, you buy an item. Stay off it! The excuse that they are not growing in the TV business is farcical: they sell 50 million TVs per year and make $24.8 billion in revenue from that with slim profit margins – 3 to 5%. Poor Samsung, poor shareholders! I’d say they are indeed in deep shit but instead of pissing off their customers they could give me the industry instead. I wouldn’t complain about the paltry income from it.