Day: May 19, 2017

Tesla factory workers reveal pain, injury and stress: ‘Everything feels like the future but us’

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Ambulances have been called more than 100 times since 2014 for workers experiencing fainting spells, dizziness, seizures, abnormal breathing and chest pains, according to incident reports obtained by the Guardian. Hundreds more were called for injuries and other medical issues. […] However, some Tesla workers argue the company’s treatment of injured workers discourages them from Read more about Tesla factory workers reveal pain, injury and stress: ‘Everything feels like the future but us’[…]

Uber Doesn’t Want You to See This Document About Its Vast Data Surveillance System

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The ever-expanding operations of Uber are defined by two interlocking and zealously guarded sets of information: the things the world-dominating ride-hailing company knows about you, and the things it doesn’t want you to know about it. Both kinds of secrets have been in play in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, as Ward Read more about Uber Doesn’t Want You to See This Document About Its Vast Data Surveillance System[…]

Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing 699,464 accounts

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A popular font sharing site DaFont.com has been hacked, exposing the site’s entire database of user accounts.Usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords of 699,464 user accounts were stolen in the breach, carried out earlier this month, by a hacker who would not divulge his nameA popular font sharing site DaFont.com has been hacked, exposing the Read more about Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing 699,464 accounts[…]

Ubuntu: Guest session processes are not confined in 16.10

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Processes launched under a lightdm guest session are not confined by the /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session AppArmor profile in Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, and Ubuntu Artful (current dev release). The processes are unconfined. The simple test case is to log into a guest session, launch a terminal with ctrl-alt-t, and run the following command: $ cat /proc/self/attr/current Expected Read more about Ubuntu: Guest session processes are not confined in 16.10[…]

World’s thinnest hologram paves path to new 3D world – RMIT University

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Now a pioneering team led by RMIT University’s Distinguished Professor Min Gu has designed a nano-hologram that is simple to make, can be seen without 3D goggles and is 1000 times thinner than a human hair. “Conventional computer-generated holograms are too big for electronic devices but our ultrathin hologram overcomes those size barriers,” Gu said. Read more about World’s thinnest hologram paves path to new 3D world – RMIT University[…]