Monthly Archives: September 2016

Hack iOS 10, Get $1.5 Million

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Reader Trailrunner7 writes: The stakes in the vulnerability acquisition and bug bounty game have just gone up several notches, with a well-known security startup now offering $1.5 million for a remote jailbreak in iOS 10.The payout was put on the table Thursday by Zerodium, a company that buys vulnerabilities and exploits for high-value target platforms and applications. The company has a set of standing prices for the information it will buy, which includes bugs and exploits for iOS, Android, Flash, Windows, and the major browsers, and the top tier of that list has been $500,000 for an iOS jailbreak. But that all changed on Thursday when Zerodium announced that the company has tripled the standing price for iOS to $1.5 million.

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Source: Slashdot – Hack iOS 10, Get .5 Million

Movie Review: A Monster Calls Is a Monstrously Powerful Tearjerker

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Though A Monster Calls is about a child and a talking tree, it’s more layered, emotional, and powerful than most movies starring adults. The film is a tale of loss, filled with life lessons anyone, children included, will find challenging and heartbreaking.

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Source: io9 – Movie Review: A Monster Calls Is a Monstrously Powerful Tearjerker

New Beauty and the Beast Stills Give Us Our First Look at the Live-Action Beast

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We’ve not actually seen all that much from Disney’s upcoming remake of its animated classic Beauty and the Beast—but new images that have emerged today make up for it by basically being ripped straight out of the original movie. Plus, they give us our first good look at Dan Stevens as the titular beast.

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Source: Gizmodo – New Beauty and the Beast Stills Give Us Our First Look at the Live-Action Beast

Scary Halloween Decoration Pulled From Shelves After Complaints

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This is the $30 Scary Peeper Creeper Halloween decoration that was recently pulled from the shelves of Canadian Home Depots after disturbing a number of shoppers (although still available online HERE, also available as a motion-activated version that taps on the window). Admittedly, that would be terrifying to see out a dark window and I would have no choice but to jump-kick through that window or have a heart attack and die, whichever comes first.

This Halloween prop was designed to be used as a prank, but it received customer complaints and one of them even contacted CBC News. “I fail to see the humour in it,” Breanne Hunt-Wells, a concerned teacher and mother of two, said during her interview. “It makes light of a very serious crime. Voyeurism is a crime in Canada.”

Long story short I just boarded up all my windows with plywood so I don’t have to worry about getting pranked like this. Or worry about real peeper creepers. That’s also why I have a guard dog. And by guard dog I mean direwolf and motion-activated laser turrets. “What’s up with the moat?” Filled with flesh-melting acid.

Keep going for a couple more shots and a video of people being pranked with it, as well as a video of the animated tapping version.

Source: Geekologie – Scary Halloween Decoration Pulled From Shelves After Complaints

The Massive E. Coli Outbreak In Flour Is Over, So Why Are People Still Getting Sick? 

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An outbreak of E. coli that caused 10 million pounds of flour to be pulled from shelves is finally over. Yet, cases continue to pop up, and the CDC says it expects to see even more. Here’s why, even when the outbreak is over, the illness still isn’t.

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Source: Gizmodo – The Massive E. Coli Outbreak In Flour Is Over, So Why Are People Still Getting Sick? 

Pack Bubble Wrap to Prepare for Souvenirs During Your Trip

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If you’re the type of traveler who always comes back with a suitcase full of souvenirs
, you might underestimate your luggage space when you pack. This makes it difficult to fit all your stuff into one bag on your return trip. One travel expert offers a simple solution: bubble wrap.

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Source: LifeHacker – Pack Bubble Wrap to Prepare for Souvenirs During Your Trip

Everlane's City Jacket is All the Raincoat You Need

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The new Everlane City Jacket is a mid weight, water resistant top layer with a hood that stays on your head. Available in three colors with the blue being particularly good, the City Jacket has easy-to-adjust Velcro cuffs, snap closure hand pockets, and subtle-but-great detailing. It’s an easy to manage raincoat recommendation for anyone that fits well over an Oxford.

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Source: LifeHacker – Everlane’s City Jacket is All the Raincoat You Need

Chromification Continues: Firefox May Use Chrome's PDF and Flash Plugins

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An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla announced today Project Mortar, an initiative to explore the possibility of deploying alternative technologies in Firefox to replace its internal implementations. The project’s first two goals are to test two Chrome plugins within the Firefox codebase. These are PDFium, the Chrome plugin for viewing PDF files, and Pepper Flash, Google’s custom implementation of Adobe Flash. The decision comes as Mozilla is trying to cut down development costs, after Firefox took a nose dive in market share this year. “In order to enable stronger focus on advancing the Web and to reduce the complexity and long term maintenance cost of Firefox, and as part of our strategy to remove generic plugin support, we are launching Project Mortar,” said Johnny Stenback, Senior Director Of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation. “Project Mortar seeks to reduce the time Mozilla spends on technologies that are required to provide a complete web browsing experience, but are not a core piece of the Web platform,” Stenback adds. “We will be looking for opportunities to replace such technologies with other existing alternatives, including implementations by other browser vendors.”

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Source: Slashdot – Chromification Continues: Firefox May Use Chrome’s PDF and Flash Plugins

Fun Photo Series Puts the Size of Random Huge Objects in Perspective

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This wonderful photo series comparing the size of things by Kevin Wisbith is a really fun way to earn some brain wrinkles, because it gives you a better sense of the true size of random buildings, ships, machines, and other objects. You get to see things like the Death Star hover over Florida in space, a B-2 bomber stretch across the width of an entire football field, and the Titanic lay out on top of a freaking aircraft carrier.

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Source: Gizmodo – Fun Photo Series Puts the Size of Random Huge Objects in Perspective

Westworld Is Very Good, You Just Need to Be a Bit Patient

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Westworld, HBO’s long-gestating adaptation of the 1973 movie of the same name, finally premieres this Sunday. In a lot of ways, the first episode already lives up to the hype—but you’re also going to have to be okay with being confused…. at least for now.

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Source: Gizmodo – Westworld Is Very Good, You Just Need to Be a Bit Patient

Another One of Saturn's Moons May Have a Global Ocean

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The evidence is mounting that our solar system is rife with oceans. Last week, scientists reported that Pluto could have an insanely deep liquid water swimming pool beneath its surface, and on Monday, NASA revealed new evidence for geyser activity on icy Europa
. Now, another frozen moon is poised to join the club of outer space scuba retreats: Dione.

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Source: Gizmodo – Another One of Saturn’s Moons May Have a Global Ocean

Salesforce urges EU to block Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn

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When Microsoft announced they’d won the bidding war for LinkedIn with a colossal $26.2 billion offer, it seemed, well, about as interesting as corporate enterprise acquisitions sound. Yet it’s a shrewd move for both: Integrating a business-oriented s…

Source: Engadget – Salesforce urges EU to block Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn

Tracking Google’s 10/4 event: Everything from Google I/O is finally ready

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Enlarge / Google’s event invitation.

Are you ready for some hardware? On October 4 at 9am PT (Noon ET), Google is hosting a big launch party for its new phones and possibly all sorts of other Google Hardware devices.

Given the fact that Google kept its event invite appropriately vague, the rumor mill has been in high gear. So with less than a week until the big day, it’s time to sort through it all and determine the plausibility.

First up: Hype. Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s SVP of Android, Chrome OS, and Google Play, has been talking this event up in the strongest possible terms. He compared the event to the launch of Android 1.0 eight years ago, and “has a feeling” we’ll be talking about the 10/4 event eight years from now. That’s basically promising this event will be up there with one of the most significant events in Google’s history. Strong words.

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Source: Ars Technica – Tracking Google’s 10/4 event: Everything from Google I/O is finally ready