Among the 10,000 unexpected items discovered to be connecting to The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust’s networks were PlayStations, coffee machines and passing electric vehicles.
Pokémon Go has a new owner, Scopely, which is a subsidiary of a Saudi Arabian company called Savvy Games, which is itself owned by the Saudi government. @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler wonders what that might mean for the location data of the game's 100 million players. [Story may be paywalled.]
uBlock Origin has the potential to save the average global Internet user more than 100 h annually. The energy conserved if everyone in the United States used the open source ad blocker would save over 36 Americans lives per year if it were to offset coal-fired electricity generated-based pollution.
Morning Tuesday pew-pewers. By me @Forbes: Don't reset your 1Password master password when a random support guy urges you to do just that. Yes, really, this warning is necessary. #kudos @TechIssues2day
@briankrebs Did you see this #infosec story "What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X" https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ #musk
I'm often disappointed by how poor the #security is on the websites of financial institutions, many still offering only SMS #2FA or no 2FA at all. But a small number are better and offer at TOTP or even FIDO. Does anyone actually try to track which institutions offer what? This would definitely be a factor for me in the future choices (if I could get this information).
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