An alien ship lands on Earth. Its occupant gets raised as human, hiding special abilities for fear of reprisal. But when the superpowered extraterrestrial becomes an adult, Truth, Justice and the American Way mean something very different. Because this strange visitor from another planet is black.
Source: Gizmodo – The Superman Crossover That Perfectly Explained White Privilege Decades Ago
When it comes to smartphone vulnerabilities, we’re used to hearing about Google’s Android operating system getting raked over the coals. After all, Android has 85+ percent global market share according to Gartner and is an easy target. iOS has had its fair share of security issues as well, but not to the extent that we’ve seen on Android.
However,
Source: Hot Hardware – NC State University Researchers Find iOS Sandbox Profiles Are Full Of Security Flaws
Acknowledging that their game has major problems especially in its endgame, the creators of the once-hot Division said in a livestream today that they will prioritize the release of an October patch to make their game better.
Source: Kotaku – The Division’s Developers Delay DLC To Focus On Improving Troubled Game
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange promised to leak “thousands” of documents from the Clinton campaign on Wednesday during an interview with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly. He also said the documents would be “significant” in the context of the presidential election. Assange vowed to publish the data before the November election because he believes “people have the right to understand who they’re electing.”
Source: Gizmodo – Wikileaks Will Publish More Clinton Campaign Data (and Probably More Personal Info, Too)
There’s plenty to do in Orlando, Florida besides infect yourself with Zika — what with Universal Studios, Disney World, the Epcot Center and SeaWorld. And a new app, backed by the supercomputing power of IBM’s Watson, will tell you how to get the mo…
Source: Engadget – New tourism app has IBM’s Watson guide you around Orlando
Sarah Jessica Parker has cut ties with Mylan, the company that makes EpiPen, after it was criticized for raising the price of the life-saving allergy product by 400 percent
. Parker announced her decision this morning on Instagram.
Source: Gizmodo – Sarah Jessica Parker Cuts Ties with EpiPen Makers After Price Gouging Controversy
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Leslie Jones, the black comedian who starred in the recent all-female remake of Ghostbusters, has been forced to take her website down after hackers seemingly took control, posted racist abuse, personal information, and what were apparently nude pictures stolen from the actor’s iCloud account
Jones, 48, has been the target of sustained online attacks for months, much of it racist and sexist in nature.
On Wednesday, hackers escalated the situation by posting a picture of the dead gorilla Harambe onto her personal Tumblr site, as well as explicit photos, her phone number and Twitter password, and screen grabs of her driver’s licence and passport, according to TMZ.
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Source: Ars Technica – Hackers attack site of Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones, post racist abuse
Today on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, my undying love for the Vita, and the Backlog Problem that so many of us deal with every day.
Source: Kotaku – Podcast: How Do You Deal With Backlogs?
As soon as I was able to run, I wanted to run faster. It’s been a journey with a lot of ups and downs, but it really is possible to start as a slow runner and, well, become a lot less slow. I’m no Olympian, but I’m fast enough to occasionally win age group medals at local races. Here’s my story.
Source: LifeHacker – How I Became a Faster Runner
An anonymous reader writes: Reportedly, in a national campaign aided by more than 30,000 airwave monitors, in over past six months, more than 500 sets of equipment for making unauthorised radio broadcasts were seized in China. The campaign, launched on February 15 by the State Council, resulted in 1,796 cases related to illegal radio stations, after 301,840 hours of monitoring from February to July, according to an online statement by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The number of incidents was down by 50 per cent from April to August, the China Daily quoted the statement as saying. So-called pirate radios have appeared in most parts of China since 2015 and this “has been a channel for criminals to defraud and promote aphrodisiacs, along with counterfeit and poor-quality medicine,” according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Criminal Investigation Department. The operating cost of a pirate radio is low, but profit can be high. A pirate radio station that broadcasts advertisements for aphrodisiacs can pocket more than 70,000 yuan ($10,500) a month, with an overhead cost of no more than 10,000 yuan, investigators said in a post on Sina Weibo. It said most spare parts for broadcasting equipment can be bought on the internet.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – China To Crackdown On Unauthorised Radio Broadcasts
Sony has added support for two-factor authentication to its PlayStation Network accounts, and you really should set it up now, rather than after someone tries to take over your account or steal your password.
To set up the new security feature, turn on your PS4 and go to Settings -> PlayStation Network Account Management -> Account Information -> Security -> 2-Step Verification. You can also set it up through the Web by visiting this page. From there, on-screen instructions will walk you through the process of using a text message to confirm your mobile device as a secondary layer of security for your PSN account. Two-factor support is not available when logging on to older PlayStation systems, so Sony recommends you generate a “device setup password” to help protect the PS3, Vita, or PSP.
The addition of two-factor support comes five years after PSN was hit by multiple, high–profile hacks, which compromised many accounts and led to a $17.75 million settlement with the victims. Two-factor authentication was far from standard back then (though some game companies had it), but even today there are plenty of reports of PSN accounts being compromised, and getting charges reversed and access fixed with Sony is not always simple.
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Source: Ars Technica – PSA: Get two-factor authentication on your PlayStation Network account
We were already looking forward to the new movie from Adam Wingard (The Guest, You’re Next) when it was called The Woods, and we had no idea it would be a sequel to The Blair Witch Project. Now we can barely contain ourselves waiting for its release, especially since each new trailer looks scarier than the last.
Source: io9 – The New Blair Witch Trailer Will Make You Never, Ever Want to Go Camping Again
Uber is a fairly well-established business at this point, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that it makes a profit at this point. But today Uber held a conference call with investors and revealed that it is losing a ton of money so far this year. Acc…
Source: Engadget – Uber has already lost more than .2 billion this year
In an effort to promote the 2016 Paralympics, Vogue Brazil decided to launch a photo campaign highlighting Renato Leite and Bruna Alexandre, two Brazilian Paralympic athletes. But instead of, you know, just putting them in the campaign, the magazine used two able-bodied models—actors Cleo Pires and Paulo Vilhena—and photoshopped them to look like Leite and Alexandre.
Source: Gizmodo – Vogue Brazil Photoshopped Models to Look Like They Have Disabilities
Yesterday, I asked you what you do with your extra car parts
. Of course, the typical response was to hang onto them until they were needed again… however long that might take. Days. Weeks. Months. Decades. I was expecting some paperweights.
Source: Gizmodo – Here Are Some Insanely Creative Projects Made From Extra Car Parts
Wait — caution, need to take a break or caution, never should have started?
In other painful below the belt news, these are the Electric Sexy Drum Pants created by Japanese “multimedia artist and experimental pop music composer Kaoring Machine.” They’re a pair of pants with a drum synth pad in the crotch (previously: these drum pants with the pads in the legs instead of the crotch to prevent future fertility problems). Man, there’s nothing like slapping yourself in the nuts for a couple minutes. These are perfect for the person who aspires to be the least tipped street musician of all time. Honey, I think that man is playing with himself — cross the street, cross the street! That said, I would totally tip this guy if he could stomp that thing like a bass pedal.
Keep going for a nut-slapping video demo.
Source: Geekologie – This Song Is Nuts: Pants With A Drum Synth In The Crotch
You can do the most amazing warm-up, flexibility
, and mobility routines
, but you still spend a ton more time not doing those things, which could literally be a pain in the neck. Whether you’re sitting, standing, or lying on your side, Adam Bornstein of Born Fitness shares some tips to quickly right your posture.
Source: LifeHacker – Improve Your Posture In Any Position With These ‘Quick Fixes’
Using a super-absorbing chemical compound called sodium polyacrylate, you can turn boring old H2O into a magical blob-like substance. There’s a lot of fun you can have with these water beads, including deep frying them
, but watching them turn invisible when submerged is easily the best trick.
Source: Gizmodo – Water Beads Are Completely Invisible When Submerged
OpenSSL 1.1.0 was released today as a major update to this free software cryptography and SSL/TLS toolkit…
Source: Phoronix – OpenSSL 1.1 Released With Many Changes
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the US National Parks Service, Google has put together a collection of virtual tours combining 360-degree video, panoramic photos and expert narration. It’s called “The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks” and is…
Source: Engadget – Google offers 360-degree tours of US National Parks
