Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
You can see it from the minute the television news day starts, on the set of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. A few months ago media writers were describing a too-cozy relationship between Mr. Trump and the show’s hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Yet there was Mr. Scarborough on Wednesday asking the former Central Intelligence…
Oh well, looks like Facebook just got all anti-user · 2016-08-09 17:52 by Ben Williams Earlier today Facebook announced that it would start trying to circumvent users with ad-blocking software and show them ads. This is an unfortunate move, because it takes a dark path against user choice. But it’s also no reason to overreact:…
HEIST is a big DEAL Newly Discovered Exploit Should Trigger a Moratorium on Blocking Adblockers and a Retooling of AdChoices At this year’s BLACK HAT conference in Las Vegas, Belgian researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Tom Van Goethem demonstrated a newly discovered technique where JavaScript loaded by a third-party is able to circumvent the encryption of…
Photo A woman dressed as Harley Quinn at Anime Friends, an anime, gaming and comics event in Buenos Aires. Credit Agustin Marcarian/Associated Press Backed by a meticulously executed marketing campaign, “Suicide Squad” pushed through abysmal reviews to set box office records for Warner Bros. over the weekend. Ticket sales for that violent PG-13 film totaled…
Chad Copley, 39, is charged with murder in connection to the shooting of a black man in Raleigh on Sunday, Aug 8. In his 911 call, he told the dispatcher he was going to confront “hoodlums” outside his home. He said “I am locked and loaded. I’m going outside to secure my neighborhood.” (Monica Akhtar/The…
On Monday, Gawker Media group entered talks with ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan to settle a $140 million lawsuit over the publication of the ex-wrestler’s sex tape. Losing control of his media company to a six-time WWF heavyweight champion, Gawker founder and CEO Nick Denton might be asking himself: just how did I get here?…
Black Hat Malicious ads can potentially masquerade as people online and grab their personal information from HTTPS-protected websites, two boffins have shown. The technique is dubbed HEIST – HTTP Encrypted Information can be Stolen through TCP-Windows – and it was devised by Tom Van Goethem and Mathy Vanhoef, both PhD researchers at the University of…
Nearly four decades is a long time to be hearing the same stuff about being a woman in power. The nauseating proof comes in the form of a new video that was put together by National Memo, a news and politics website, and posted to YouTube on Thursday. It tracks almost 40 years of Hillary…
The most wanted feature in Pokémon Go is back, at least for some users. Pokémon Go now has a new update, and it changes the following: The biggest and most interesting change has to be the new Nearby system, which is now named ‘Sightings:” UPDATE 11:56PM: Actually, this image from neoGAFFer Toki767 seems to be…
GIF As reporters and editors, we at Gizmodo like to investigate stuff and ask questions. But there comes a time when you’re beat and have to reach out for help. That’s why we’re coming to you, our readers, with a question we haven’t been able to answer despite weeks of probing. So: Did you have…