A few days ago, Roku sent out an email to customers informing them that Fox standalone apps would go away after January 31st due to an expiring distribution agreement. That might make it a little harder and more complicated to watch the Super Bowl vi…
Source: Engadget – Roku and Fox cut a deal in time for Super Bowl LIV streaming
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Hulu CEO steps down as it integrates with Disney's streaming plans
Now that Hulu is part of Disney’s streaming triumvirate with ESPN+ and Disney+, there’s a reorganization at the top and Randy Freer will step down from his role as CEO. He took over in late 2017, but now it will join the others under direct oversight…
Source: Engadget – Hulu CEO steps down as it integrates with Disney’s streaming plans
3 Methods to Install the Latest Python3 Package on CentOS 6
2DayGeek: This tutorial shows you about installing Python 3 on Centos 6.
Source: LXer – 3 Methods to Install the Latest Python3 Package on CentOS 6
Fingerprints Can Now Be Dated To Within a Day of When They Were Made
Writing in Analytical Chemistry, Paige Hinners and Young Jin Lee of Iowa State University say they have figured out an accurate way to data to within 24 hours when a fingerprint under a week old was made — and thus whether it is associated with a crime temporally, as well as spatially. The Economist reports: They knew from work conducted by other laboratories that the triglyceride oils contained in fingerprints change by oxidation over the course of time. That provides an obvious way to date prints. The problem is that the techniques which have been applied to analyze these oils are able to distinguish age only crudely. In practice, they can determine whether or not a print is over a week old, but nothing else. Dr Hinners and Dr Lee wondered if higher precision could be obtained by thinking a bit more about oxidation. Oxygen molecules in the air come in two varieties. Most have a pair of atoms but some, known as ozone, have three. Though far rarer than diatomic oxygen, ozone is more reactive and also reacts in ways different from those of its two-atomed cousin. The two researchers therefore decided to focus their attentions on ozonolysis, as triatomic oxidation is known.
Triglycerides, as their name suggests, are three-tailed molecules. Each tail is a chain of carbon atoms, with hydrogen atoms bonded to the carbons. The chains are held together by bonds between the carbon atoms. These are of two varieties, known as single and double bonds. Single bonds are, in chemistry-speak, saturated, and double bonds unsaturated. By extension, molecules with one or more double bonds in them are also referred to as unsaturated, while those with only single bonds are called saturated. Unsaturated bonds are more reactive, and it is here that ozonolysis does its work. Ozone breaks up triglycerides at their double bonds, with one or more of the ozone’s oxygen atoms becoming attached to the carbon chain, to create new chemical species. In principle, this should result in a gradual loss of unsaturated triglycerides and a concomitant rise in the reaction products of ozonolysis. And that, in practice, is what Dr Hinners and Dr Lee found.
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Source: Slashdot – Fingerprints Can Now Be Dated To Within a Day of When They Were Made
Fast & Furious 9 trailer: The only 4 minutes of the film you’ll need to watch
Vin Diesel returns as Dominic Toretto in Fast & Furious 9, directed by Justin Lin.
Universal Pictures has dropped the first full trailer for Fast and Furious 9, the latest installment in its multi-billion-dollar franchise. It’s nearly four full minutes of all the ridiculously over-the-top mayhem we’ve come to expect from Domininc Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his merry band of badass misfits. And no wonder: Director Justin Lin is back on board, who helmed 2006’s Tokyo Drift and the next three installments before passing the baton to James Wan for Furious 7.
Fast and Furious 9 is the sequel to 2017’s The Fate of the Furious, in which Dom is coerced into the following the orders of a cyberterrorist named Cipher (Charlize Theron). Over the course of a very convoluted plot, Dom discovers his former lover, DSS agent Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) bore him a son. Elena doesn’t survive the film, but the boy does. And of course, Dom and company end up saving the day.
News of a planned ninth and tenth film to complete the franchise broke back in 2016, with F&F9 initially slated for an April 2019 release. It was rescheduled for this year to make room for the 2019 spinoff film, Hobbs and Shaw, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Stratham in the title roles. There were already rumors of tension between Johnson and Diesel on the set of The Fate of the Furious, and the delay on the ninth film prompted a bitter outburst on Instagram by co-star Tyrese Gibson, who plays team member Roman Pearce in the franchise.
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Source: Ars Technica – Fast & Furious 9 trailer: The only 4 minutes of the film you’ll need to watch
Ring Drops a Major App Update, Placing Privacy and Security Settings Front and Center
Ring has begun pushing out an update to its phone app with the aim of consolidating all of its security settings, a likely response to general privacy concerns, as well as more specific ones about “hackers” who’ve hijacked in-home camera feeds in recent months.
Source: Gizmodo – Ring Drops a Major App Update, Placing Privacy and Security Settings Front and Center
Uber Officially Bans Drivers From Carrying Firearms, But Company's Business Model Prevents Enforcement
Iwastheone shares a report from The Atlantic, written by Sidney Fussell: Uber has banned guns in cars, for both drivers and passengers, since 2015. But over email and Facebook Messenger, four current and four former drivers told me they carry firearms on the job. In explaining why, they each cited the same self-determinalist rhetoric Uber has slapped on subway ads to entice drivers and used in hearings to justify the business model: Drivers maintain good ratings, own their own cars, set their own hours, act as their own bosses, and follow local laws. But ultimately, they work for themselves, and Uber is, to use a Silicon Valley term of art, just a platform.
In 2017, Jose Mejia, a Miami driver, filed a federal class-action suit against Uber to reverse its firearm ban. Florida’s 2008 “bring your gun to work” law empowers employees to store legal firearms in personal lockers or their own cars. With Uber, of course, the car is the workplace. Mejia claimed that Uber policy violated Florida law and, citing an incident in which an Uber driver with a concealed-carry license shot and disarmed a Chicago gunman, argued that arming Uber drivers could save lives. But Mejia couldn’t prove that Uber violated his rights: He hadn’t been fired or threatened with suspension. The company had announced a ban, yes, but never materially stopped him from carrying a firearm. The Florida court dismissed the suit (PDF) without prejudice in 2018. Here we have a uniquely American absurdity: Drivers can carry guns to work, to a bar, to a supermarket, but not in their own cars while using the app to transport passengers. Like Mejia, they exist in this space between name and effect, adherent to a ban with little practical enforcement.
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Source: Slashdot – Uber Officially Bans Drivers From Carrying Firearms, But Company’s Business Model Prevents Enforcement
Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Open Source Libraries
In recent articles, ForAllSecure has discussed how we were able to use our next-generation fuzzing solution, Mayhem, to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities in several open source projects, including Netflix DIAL reference, Das U-Boot, and more. In this post, we will follow up on a prior article on using Mayhem to analyze stb and MATIO by reviewing three additional vulnerabilities found in another open source library. Prior to detailing these new vulnerabilities, we will examine some of the factors which can help to identify code which is a good candidate for fuzzing.
Source: LXer – Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Open Source Libraries
Vine Successor Byte Will Dole Out Its Entire Ad Revenue to Creators Based on Views
After going live on iOS and Android last week, Vine’s successor, Byte, has dropped some more information that “partner program” it’s been teasing since launch, basically its plan to get users paid. None too soon, I’d wager, given the app—a video platform for six-second looping clips—has already become overrun with …
Source: Gizmodo – Vine Successor Byte Will Dole Out Its Entire Ad Revenue to Creators Based on Views
Sale of<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Org Domain Registry Delayed By California Attorney General
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) demanding more information about the private equity takeover of the .org domain registry. The attorney general is seeking answers to 35 questions concerning the sale as well as documents sent between ICANN, private equity firm Ethos Capital, and Public Interest Registry (PIR), which manages the .org domain. Mashable reports: Ethos Capital disclosed last year that it was acquiring PIR from its non-profit parent organization, the Internet Society, for $1.135 billion. ICANN, the non-profit organization that oversees domain names, disclosed the letter on its website along with its own correspondence with PIR, informing it of the development. Previously, ICANN had until Feb. 17 to approve or deny the sale. According to ICANN, as a result of the California AG’s letter, it’s seeking to delay this deadline until April 20.
ICANN says it’s “fully cooperating” with the request. In its letter to PIR, ICANN gives a heads up that it will be providing the attorney general “confidential material” to comply with the AG’s demands. As ICANN’s letter states, it has terms in its contract with PIR which forbid the organization from disclosing information that the registry deems confidential unless required by law. ICANN clearly views the AG’s letter as applicable.
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Source: Slashdot – Sale of<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Org Domain Registry Delayed By California Attorney General
Dolittle Originally Didn’t Have as Much Butt Stuff
Dolittle ends with Robert Downey Jr. putting his hands up a dragon’s ass. If you hadn’t heard that, you didn’t read our review where I said the exact same thing. Is it a spoiler? Yes. But it’s such a wild thing to say that your instincts are to assume it couldn’t be true. We assure you, it is.
Source: io9 – Dolittle Originally Didn’t Have as Much Butt Stuff
FCC: Wireless carriers violated federal law by selling location data
The FCC has finished investigating carriers’ unauthorized disclosure and sale of subscribers’ real-time location data, Chairman Ajit Pai has shared with (PDF) lawmakers in the House of Representatives. In his letters, he told Energy and Commerce Comm…
Source: Engadget – FCC: Wireless carriers violated federal law by selling location data
Brexit Happens
“The UK has officially left the European Union after 47 years of membership,” reports the BBC.
The historic moment, which happened at 23:00 GMT, was marked by both celebrations and anti-Brexit protests. Candlelit vigils were held in Scotland, which voted to stay in the EU, while Brexiteers partied in London’s Parliament Square… Brexit parties were held in pubs and social clubs across the UK as the country counted down to its official departure.
Hundreds gathered in Parliament Square to celebrate Brexit, singing patriotic songs and cheering speeches from leading Brexiteers, including Nigel Farage… In Northern Ireland, the campaign group Border Communities Against Brexit staged a series of protests in Armagh, near to the border with the Republic of Ireland.
At 2300 GMT, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted a picture of the EU flag, adding: “Scotland will return to the heart of Europe as an independent country.”
The U.K. flag was removed from European Union institutions in Brussels, the BBC notes. And they also quote U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson as saying “For all its strengths and for all its admirable qualities, the EU has evolved over 50 years in a direction that no longer suits this country.”
“The most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning…”
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Source: Slashdot – Brexit Happens
This is the production version of Tesla's Model Y
We first met the prototype Model Y crossover last year, and this week during the company’s earnings call, Elon Musk said deliveries of the vehicle will start in March. In the documents released (PDF), Tesla also showed off this picture of the car’s p…
Source: Engadget – This is the production version of Tesla’s Model Y
Lindsey Graham Is Quietly Preparing a Mess of a Bill Trying to Destroy End-to-End Encryption
Top Trump ally and consistent encryption scaremonger Senator Lindsey Graham is working on a bill that could coerce tech companies to stop providing end-to-end encryption by threatening them with massive legal liability, The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2019 (or EARN IT…
Source: Gizmodo – Lindsey Graham Is Quietly Preparing a Mess of a Bill Trying to Destroy End-to-End Encryption
University of Illinois Releases HPVM As Heterogeneous Parallel Systems Compiler
University of Illinois and associated developers have released HPVM 0.5, their LLVM-based compiler infrastructure for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems with CPU execution and OpenCL-based NVIDIA GPU support…
Source: Phoronix – University of Illinois Releases HPVM As Heterogeneous Parallel Systems Compiler
Instagram Wipes Independent Developer's Work in the Name of Copyright Protections
Social media companies tend to take up copyright issues only when a) mitigating the pain in the ass of takedown notices and b) ensuring users keep reposting memes. Instagram has erred cautiously on the side of supporting potential infringers for the latter reason, so we found it curious when TorrentFreak reported that…
Source: Gizmodo – Instagram Wipes Independent Developer’s Work in the Name of Copyright Protections
Social Media Boosting Service Exposed Thousands of Instagram Passwords
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A social media boosting startup, which bills itself as a service to increase a user’s Instagram followers, has exposed thousands of Instagram account passwords. The company, Social Captain, says it helps thousands of users to grow their Instagram follower counts by connecting their accounts to its platform. Users are asked to enter their Instagram username and password into the platform to get started. But TechCrunch learned this week Social Captain was storing the passwords of linked Instagram accounts in unencrypted plaintext. Any user who viewed the web page source code on their Social Captain profile page could see their Instagram username and password in plain sight, so long as they had connected their account to the platform.
Making matters worse, a website bug allowed anyone access to any Social Captain user’s profile without having to log in — simply plugging in a user’s unique account ID into the company’s web address would grant access to their Social Captain account — and their Instagram login credentials. Because the user account IDs were for the most part sequential, it was possible to access any user’s account and view their Instagram password and other account information with relative ease. The security researcher who reported the vulnerability provided a spreadsheet of about 10,000 scraped user accounts to TechCrunch.
“The spreadsheet contained about 4,700 complete sets of Instagram usernames and passwords,” the report says. “The rest of the records contained just the user’s name and their email address.”
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Source: Slashdot – Social Media Boosting Service Exposed Thousands of Instagram Passwords
Install Caddy with PHP & HTTPS using Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu
Install Caddy with PHP & HTTPS using Let’sEncrypt on Ubuntu. In this guide you are going to learn how to install Caddy with PHP 7.4 and also configure HTTPs on Ubuntu 18.04.
Source: LXer – Install Caddy with PHP & HTTPS using Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu
Intel MPX Support Is Dead With Linux 5.6
Following on from last week’s story that it was looking like Linux 5.6 would drop Intel MPX support, that has now taken place…
Source: Phoronix – Intel MPX Support Is Dead With Linux 5.6