You do not want someone else to be able to monitor or even control your computer and you usually work hard to cut off any such attempts using various security mechanisms. However, sometimes a situation occurs when you desperately need a friend, or an expert, to help you with a computer problem, but they are not at the same location at the same time.
Source: LXer – Sharing the computer screen in Gnome
Monthly Archives: January 2022
What Is Doas and How to Install Doas
Doas is a privilege escalation program similar to sudo. It is lightweight and simple to use. Learn how to use and install Doas here.
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Source: Linux Today – What Is Doas and How to Install Doas
Xbox Game Pass Will Soon Stop Taking Money From Inactive Accounts
Thanks to an investigation into online gaming subscriptions by the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft will soon improve the ways in which its Xbox Game Pass service handles auto-renewal, refunds, and inactive memberships. (h/t PC Gamer)
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Game Pass Will Soon Stop Taking Money From Inactive Accounts
Fox News host Dan Bongino earned himself a Google Ads ban too
Days after he was permanently banned from YouTube, Dan Bongino has also lost his ability to earn revenue from Google ads. On Friday, the Bongino Report Twitter account sent out a tweet suggesting Google had revoked the pundit’s AdSense account. Later that same day, Tech Policy Press confirmed the suspension with Google. The company told the outlet Bongino’s website had violated its AdSense publisher policies.
“We have strict publisher policies in place that explicitly prohibit misleading and harmful content around the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrably false claims about our elections,” a Google spokesperson told Engadget. “When publishers persistently breach our policies we stop serving Google ads on their sites. Publishers can always appeal a decision once they have addressed any violating content.”
Bogino’s YouTube ban came down from Google after the Fox News host attempted to evade a prior suspension related to the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy. He posted a video to one of his accounts questioning the effectiveness of masks against the coronavirus. At that point, YouTube temporarily suspended Bogino. It then permanently banned him after he attempted to post that same video to another channel, thereby violating the platform’s terms of service.
On an episode of his podcast titled “I’m Daring YouTube to Do This,” Bogino said before the initial suspension he would continue to post videos about his claims on masks until the company took action. And while it appears he actively courted Google to ban him in both instances, the loss of AdSense revenue has the potential to hurt Bongino more than losing access to YouTube. On Twitter, Claire Atkin, the co-founder of Check My Ads, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting disinformation in the digital advertising industry, said the Gateway Pundit, a website that spread COVID-19 and election misinformation, lost $1.1 million in annual revenue after Google revoked its AdSense account.
Source: Engadget – Fox News host Dan Bongino earned himself a Google Ads ban too
The Week's Best Toys Are Animated, Stuffed, and Ready to Terminate
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the latest and coolest toy news on the internet. This week, Hasbro goes ‘90s with a trio of animated X-Men icons, MAFEX swings between the worlds of DC Comics and the Terminator, and Hot Toys returns to The Mandalorian for a few more Nite Owls. Check it out!
Source: Gizmodo – The Week’s Best Toys Are Animated, Stuffed, and Ready to Terminate
DeFi Platform Qubit Finance Begs Hacker To Return $80 Million In Stolen Funds
Qubit Finance took to Twitter last night to beg hackers to return more than $80 million in stolen cryptocurrency this week. ZDNet reports: On Thursday, the DeFi platform said their protocol was exploited by a hacker who eventually stole 206,809 binance coins from Qubit’s QBridge protocol, worth more than $80 million according to PeckShield. An hour after the first message, the company explained that they were tracking the exploiter and monitoring the stolen cryptocurrency. They noted that they contacted the hacker and offered them the maximum bug bounty in exchange for a return of the funds, something a number of other hacked DeFi platforms have tried to middling success. They shared multiple messages on Twitter that they purportedly sent to the hacker offering a bug bounty of $250,000 and begging for a return of the stolen funds.
“We propose you negotiate directly with us before taking any further action. The exploit and loss of funds have a profound effect on thousands of real people. If the maximum bounty offer is not what you are looking for, we are open to have a conversation. Let’s figure out a situation,” the Qubit Finance Team wrote. The company later explained in a blog post that their Qubit protocol “was subject to an exploit to our QBridge deposit function.” […] Blockchain security company CertiK released a detailed explanation of how the attack occurred and has been tracking the stolen funds as the hackers move them to different accounts. “For the non-technical readers, essentially what the attacker did is take advantage of a logical error in Qubit Finance’s code that allowed them to input malicious data and withdraw tokens on Binance Smart Chain when none were deposited on Ethereum,” CertiK explained.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – DeFi Platform Qubit Finance Begs Hacker To Return Million In Stolen Funds
The FBI Reportedly Considered Buying Spyware That Could Hack Any Phone in the U.S.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation spent two years considering whether it should procure a clandestine commercial spyware tool that could reportedly hack any phone within the United States, according to a bombshell investigation by New York Times Magazine.
Source: Gizmodo – The FBI Reportedly Considered Buying Spyware That Could Hack Any Phone in the U.S.
How to Transfer Files Between Dropbox And Google Drive with Rclone
Rclone can copy files between two different cloud providers. Learn how to transfer files between Dropbox and Google Drive with Rclone in Linux here.
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Source: Linux Today – How to Transfer Files Between Dropbox And Google Drive with Rclone
Apple now allows unlisted apps on the App Store
Enlarge (credit: Samuel Axon)
Apple has added a new feature for app developers that should prove useful for internal tools and other kinds of applications that are meant for a specific set of users but not for the wider world: unlisted apps.
Making an app unlisted means that it won’t show up “in any App Store categories, recommendations, charts, search results, or other listings,” according to Apple. The only way to get to the app is with that link—or through Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager.
Developers must submit a request to receive a link that can point to their app. Apple’s documentation on the feature goes a little deeper for each of the possible cases:
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Source: Ars Technica – Apple now allows unlisted apps on the App Store
Researchers Develop COVID Test That Uses a Smartphone to Gets Results on the Cheap
If you’re also someone who’s waited in line for hours to get a COVID test—or faced similar frustrations trying to buy them at your local drugstore—then you’re in luck. A group of scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara say they’ve developed a new kind of COVID-testing system that only involves some…
Source: Gizmodo – Researchers Develop COVID Test That Uses a Smartphone to Gets Results on the Cheap
8 Horror Movies to Watch After You Devour Archive 81
An apartment building with ties to the occult. A person obsessed with a mystery they uncover in found footage. The blurring of media and reality. Surveillance and paranoia. The possibility of other dimensions! Netflix’s spooky series Archive 81 combines all of these elements, and it does it so well it’s no shocker…
Source: Gizmodo – 8 Horror Movies to Watch After You Devour Archive 81
Fans Are Harassing Top Twitch Star xQc For ‘Too Much’ GTA Role-Play
If you’ve frequented Félix “xQc” Lengyel’s Twitch channel recently, you’ll have noticed he’s doing a lot of Grand Theft Auto Online role-play and reactions to video content. That’s fine. It’s his channel, so he can do whatever he wants with it…or maybe not? A small but vocal portion of his millions-strong community…
Source: Kotaku – Fans Are Harassing Top Twitch Star xQc For ‘Too Much’ GTA Role-Play
Gov’t watchdog slams federal COVID response, puts HHS on “high risk” list
Enlarge / (L-R) Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the President, Dr. Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Dawn O’Connell, assistant HHS secretary for preparedness and response, testify during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Pool)
The US Health and Human Service Department has botched multiple aspects of its COVID-19 pandemic response, and those failures can be linked back to longstanding leadership and preparedness deficiencies the department has failed to address for more than a decade, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
“These deficiencies have hindered the nation’s response to the current COVID-19 pandemic and a variety of past threats, including other infectious diseases—such as the H1N1 influenza pandemic, Zika, and Ebola—and extreme weather events, such as hurricanes,” the GAO concluded.
The new report, released Thursday, is the GAO’s ninth assessment of the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it lays out a series of deficiencies it found at the HHS. But the GAO also emphasizes that it has been here before with the HHS, which encompasses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), among other components. Since 2007, GAO has given the HHS 115 recommendations for how it can improve its leadership and coordination of public health emergency responses—and the HHS has yet to address 72 of them.
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Source: Ars Technica – Gov’t watchdog slams federal COVID response, puts HHS on “high risk” list
The Oil Industry Has a $500 Billion Bubble Problem
Oil prices are rebounding as global economic activity picks back up. But the boom could likely be a mirage as governments finally get their act together on climate change—and it could lead to financial ruin if Big Oil ends up chasing it.
Source: Gizmodo – The Oil Industry Has a 0 Billion Bubble Problem
Intel Alder Lake Laptop With Arc A370M Mobile GPU Breaks Cover In Leaked Benchmark
Are you thirsty for more information regarding Intel’s upcoming Arc GPUs? So are we. That’s why we were pretty interested in a new result that appeared in the BAPco database for an unreleased Intel laptop test platform with an Alder Lake CPU and an Arc Alchemist discrete GPU.
The specific model name given for the Intel dGPU is “Intel Arc
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Alder Lake Laptop With Arc A370M Mobile GPU Breaks Cover In Leaked Benchmark
Two New Drugs Are Exacerbating the Overdose Crisis
Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week suggests that two recently resurfaced drugs are now contributing to the ongoing overdose crisis in the U.S. Among both reported overdose deaths and drug busts, officials are seeing an increase of the drugs para-fluorofentanyl and metonitazene,…
Source: Gizmodo – Two New Drugs Are Exacerbating the Overdose Crisis
Over 80 percent of NFTs minted for free on OpenSea are fake or plagiarized
One of the largest online marketplaces for non-fungible tokens is once again the center of controversy. Mere months after one of its employees resigned for using insider information to profit on NFT drops, OpenSea caused a stir among its users this week when it abruptly announced it was putting a restriction on its free minting tool. The feature allows individuals to create and list an NFT without first paying a “gas price,” the fee that crypto miners charge to write new data to a blockchain.
To all the creators in our community impacted by the 50 item limit we added to our free minting tool, we hear you and we’re sorry.
We have reversed the decision.
But we also want to offer an explanation ↯ pic.twitter.com/Y3igaE1RM2— OpenSea (@opensea) January 27, 2022
On Thursday, OpenSea said it would add a 50 item limit to the tool. Predictably, the announcement wasn’t popular among OpenSea users, and the company quickly reversed course. But in doing so, it provided some context about the feature. In a Twitter thread spotted by Vice News, the company said more than 80 percent of the NFTs recently created through its free minting tool involved either plagiarized work or spam.
It’s a staggering number, but one that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Artists and photographers have complained for months that the company hasn’t done enough to prevent scammers and bots from profiting from their work. In fact, there’s an entire Twitter account dedicated to documenting NFT thefts.
“Every decision we make, we make with our creators in mind. We originally built our shared storefront contract to make it easy for creators to onboard into the space,” OpenSea said on Twitter. “We didn’t make this decision lightly. We made the change to address feedback we were receiving from our entire community.”
OpenSea added it was working on several “solutions” it hoped would appease users while deterring bad actors. Moving forward, the company promised it would preview those changes before rolling them out broadly.
Source: Engadget – Over 80 percent of NFTs minted for free on OpenSea are fake or plagiarized
How Hackers Compromise the Software Supply Chain
If you consider all the components you need for your software, you have a pretty long chain, and those components have dependencies too. Any weak link can compromise the entire software supply chain, putting your business at risk. Learn more about how hackers compromise the software supply chain here.
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Source: Linux Today – How Hackers Compromise the Software Supply Chain
The Delightful Brian and Charles Makes a Grand Case for Human-Robot Friendships
In 2017, io9 wrote about a short film titled Brian and Charles, dubbing it “beautifully shot and equal parts poignant and wryly hilarious.” So we were thrilled to see that director Jim Archer made a feature film based on his short It just made its debut at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and is an early contender for…
Source: Gizmodo – The Delightful Brian and Charles Makes a Grand Case for Human-Robot Friendships
Spotify support buckles under complaints from angry Neil Young fans
Enlarge / Neil Young’s fans aren’t happy that the rocker’s music is no longer available on Spotify. (credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
Neil Young was mad. Now his fans are, too, and they’re telling Spotify about it.
Earlier this week, Young had asked the music-streaming service to remove his music from its library in response to COVID misinformation aired on Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is available only on Spotify. “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” Young wrote on his website. “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.”
Spotify complied with the request, which ultimately came from Warner Brothers, Young’s label. Though the loss of Young’s music likely represents a small percentage of overall streams on Spotify, Young pointed out that “Spotify represents 60% of the streaming of my music to listeners around the world.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Spotify support buckles under complaints from angry Neil Young fans