So you’re ready to cut out your cable subscription and start using an HDTV antenna, but you still want to be able to DVR your favorite network broadcasts. What do you do?
Source: Gizmodo – Save Big on Tablo, the Mobile-Friendly DVR Designed Specifically For Antenna Users
The Heritage Valley Health System says it has been hit with a cyber attack. From a report: A spokeswoman confirmed the attack Tuesday morning. “Heritage Valley Health System has been affected by a cyber security incident. The incident is widespread and is affecting the entire health system including satellite and community locations. We have implemented downtime procedures and made operational adjustments to ensure safe patient care continues un-impeded.” Heritage Valley is a $480 million network that provides care for residents of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties, in Pennsylvania; parts of eastern Ohio; and the panhandle of West Virginia. Also read: Ukrainian Banks, Electricity Firm Hit by Fresh Cyber Attack; Reports Claim the Ransomware Is Quickly Spreading Across the World.
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Source: Slashdot – Heritage Valley Health System Target Of Cyber Attack
If Marvel’s Spider-Man always seemed a little too far-fetched, you’re going to have an even harder time wrapping your head around the Darwin’s Bark spider. It’s no bigger than a thumbnail, but it can shoot a web at distances of over 80 feet, allowing it to cross rivers and spin massive traps.
Source: Gizmodo – This Thumbnail-Sized Spider Shoots an 80-Foot-Long Web Bridge to Cross Rivers
Source: Engadget – Samsung will reportedly release Note 7 ‘fandom’ edition soon
Will we be getting another version of the PlayStation 4 Pro? That doesn’t seem out of the question: Sony President and CEO Shawn Layden suggests that there will a substantial wait before we hear anything about a true next-generation PlayStation, unofficially killing those rumors of a PS5 debuting as early as the end of next year. Based on previous generations, we may not see it until 2020 or 2021.
“With the PlayStation 4 Pro we have for the first time implemented this kind of innovation within the life cycle of a console,” said Layden, according to a rough translation in Google Translate. “The Pro is really only to offer advantages such as 4K resolutions and HMD for players who can and want to use that. Add to this a more stable image rate and larger hard disk space. But [PS4 owners have] no real disadvantages. Each of our games will continue to run on the classic PS4 and possibly slightly better on the Pro.”
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Sony: It Will “Probably Be Some Time” before We See PS5
The social network had been creeping up toward the milestone since March, but now it’s official: Zuckerberg has announced that his site now has 2 billion monthly users. Based on the wordage, these are all active accounts that actually see regular usage – I guess Facebook will be around for many years to come.
…we reached a new milestone: there are now 2 billion people connecting and building communities on Facebook every month. This wouldn’t have happened without the millions of smaller communities and individuals who are sharing and making meaningful contributions every day. Each day, more than 175 million people share a Love reaction, and on average, over 800 million people like something on Facebook. More than 1 billion people use Groups every month. To show our appreciation for the many ways people support one another on Facebook, we will share several personalized experiences over the coming days.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Facebook Now Has 2 Billion Monthly Users
The official website of Ohio Governor John Kasich and the site of Ohio First Lady Karen Kasich were defaced on June 25 by a group calling itself Team System DZ. The group is a known pro-Islamic State “hacktivist” group that has repeatedly had its social media accounts suspended for posting IS propaganda videos and other activity. Kasich’s site was but one of a number of state and local government websites that were hijacked by Team System DZ early this week, all of which had one thing in common: they were running on an outdated version of the DotNetNuke (DNN) content management platform.
DNN Platform is a popular content management system (particularly with state and local governments) based on Windows Server and the ASP.NET framework for Microsoft Internet Information Server. DNN Platform is open source and available for free—making it attractive to government agencies looking for something low cost that fits into their existing Windows Server-heavy organizations. A review of the HTML source of each of the sites attacked by Team System DZ showed that they were running a vulnerable version of the content management system DNN Platform—version 7.0, which was released in 2015.
A critical security update issued by DNN in May of 2016 warned that an attacker could exploit vulnerabilities to create new “superuser” accounts through the content management system, giving them unfettered remote access to modify websites. DNN urged customers to upgrade to the latest version of the software at the time. A May 2015 alert also warned that an attacker could use the software’s Installation Wizard page for some server configurations to create new user accounts on the Windows Server host.
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Source: Ars Technica – Ohio Gov. Kasich’s website, dozens of others defaced using year-old exploit
Twitch Partners get a lot of perks, including extra emotes, 60 days of past broadcast storage, financial support and the ability for fans to subscribe to their channels for $5, $10 or $25 per month. Starting this week, Twitch Affiliates — streamers…
Source: Engadget – Twitch rolls out subscriptions for Affiliate streamers
Jessica Henwick is conquering genre franchises—she was in The Force Awakens, Game of Thrones, and Marvel’s Iron Fist. But that last commitment—as Colleen Wing—is so great it almost kept us from ever seeing her in Game of Thrones again.
Source: Gizmodo – Iron Fist Nearly Made a Game of Thrones Character Just Disappear
Online shopping is on the rise—it’s fast and ships directly to your doorstep, sometimes overnight. But with online shopping, you miss the experience of going into a store and picking up items. Enter virtual reality shopping, which tries to give you the convenience of online shopping and the experience of being in a…
Source: LifeHacker – Virtual Reality Is the Future of Shopping
London’s countless telephone boxes become more redundant with every new mobile contract signed and throwaway tourist SIM purchased. Having a mind to update these payphones for the modern age, BT — which owns the majority of them — announced last ye…
Source: Engadget – London is the second city to get free gigabit WiFi kiosks
Another major cyberattack attack is quickly spreading across Europe and has now infected systems in the US as well. Researchers at Symantec and other leading security firms are confirming that ransomware is being spread via EternalBlue, an exploit leaked in April by the ShadowBrokers hacking group, which is said to…
Source: Gizmodo – Ransomware Victims Unable to Decrypt Files After Email Provider Shuts Down Attackers’ Inbox
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There has been a lot of media coverage about Uber driver misdeeds—drunk driving, drivers stealing from their passengers, and even cases of drivers murdering and raping customers. But Uber drivers can also be victims of their passengers.
The family of an Uber driver murdered on the job in Illinois is taking Walmart to court. In a Cook County lawsuit, (PDF) the family of driver Grant T. Nelson alleges that the retail giant was negligent when it allowed the murder suspect to steal a machete and a knife before walking past security personnel without being stopped. That was right before she hailed an Uber outside the Skokie store at 3am on May 30.
Moments after picking up the alleged thief—a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Wasni—police say the 37-year-old Nelson was stabbed to death by Wasni after exiting the Walmart parking lot.
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Source: Ars Technica – Walmart sued after teen steals machete and kills her Uber driver
Facebook has announced that it now has over 2 billion monthly active users. From a report: That’s up from the 1.94 billion total that the company cited as part of its most recent earnings report in May. Mark Zuckerberg shared the news directly, and Fast Company has a story on Facebook’s constant efforts to keep pushing growth upward. “It’s an honor to be on this journey with you,” Zuckerberg wrote. Facebook’s other apps are faring well, too: Messenger has over 1.2 billion monthly users and Facebook-owned WhatsApp tallies a similar figure. Twitter, by comparison, has 328 million monthly active users. Instagram has over 700 million.
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Source: Slashdot – Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users
To some degree, the politics of The “Progressive Liberal” Dan Richards align with those of the real Dan Richards. Given that this is pro wrestling, a big red sign displaying Is this a work? is always flashing, but Richards claims he leans hard left. “It’s not much of a stretch,” he says on the phone. When he tells me…
Source: Gizmodo – No One Is Pissing Off Local Wrestling Crowds Like The “Progressive Liberal”
Alcatel’s Idol 4S phone was a good value at $350, but its emphasis on virtual reality support (such as a box that doubled as a headset) may have held it back. Unless you’re a big VR fan, wouldn’t you rather spend less on a no-frills device? You’re…
Source: Engadget – Alcatel’s Idol 5S is a bargain if you can stomach Amazon ads
To celebrate a change to producing all their hotdogs with a new, artificial preservative-free recipe (oh God what have I been eating?), Oscar Meyer is adding four new vehicles to it’s Wienermobile fleet to help get the word out and deliver dogs. The new additions include the Weinermini, a Weinermobile built on a Mini Cooper, the Weinerrover, a smaller R/C Weinermobile, the Wienercycle, a motorcycle with sidecar, and the Wienerdrone, a flying wiener delivery vehicle. Obviously, I plan on having my photo taken in front of all of them, with the caption “#1 Wiener Lover”. If anyone deserves the title, it’s me — I used to eat two cold dogs straight from the package for breakfast every morning. Then the rest of the package for lunch, followed by beans and weenies for dinner. At least until my doctor told me they were going to kill me. “When was that?” He hasn’t yet, I’ve been avoiding him.
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Source: Geekologie – Oscar Meyer Expands Wiener Vehicle Fleet With Weinermini, Weinerrover, Weinercycle And Weinerdrone
Growing up as a kid who loved comic books, I spent many an afternoon running around the park pretending to be a superhero fighting all manners of evil. Fun as it was, the process of picking out which superhero I wanted to be always stressed me out for one particular reason that still bothers me to this day.
Source: Gizmodo – Why Do So Many Black Superheroes Have Electricity Powers?
Water parks are a time-honored American tradition, and a great way to beat the summer heat while stewing in strangers’ bodily fluids. Really, there’s no shortage of things to do at a water park: You can lounge in the lazy river, splash around on a slide, and even contract Hep A! The possibilities are endless.
Source: Gizmodo – Reminder: Wave Pools Are Filthy Pits of Despair
I’ve got a problem with my MacBook’s poorly designed keyboard, one I know Apple isn’t going to solve for me. On older MacBook keyboards, the arrow keys were identical in size, with two empty spaces to the left and right of the top arrow key that provided a tactile reference point and clear delineator between full-size…
Source: LifeHacker – For Faster Touch-Typing, Put a Bump on Your Keyboard
