# News & Articles **URL:** https://onehack.st/c/news-articles/30.md?page=107 [Latest](https://onehack.st/latest.md) · [Categories](https://onehack.st/categories.md) · [Tags](https://onehack.st/tags.md) **Page:** 108 --- ## [US Government Now Working With Peter Thiel's Palantir On Covid-19 Tracking Tool](https://onehack.st/t/us-government-now-working-with-peter-thiels-palantir-on-covid-19-tracking-tool/82412)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/us-government-now-working-with-peter-thiels-palantir-on-covid-19-tracking-tool/82412 "2020-04-26T14:06:39Z")
With a little help from Peter Thiel’s controversial company Palintir, America’s Department of Health and Human Services is building a powerful new tool to track the spread of the coronavirus. The Verge reports: The t… --- ## [Windows 10 Users Complain Newest Update Is Deleting Their Files](https://onehack.st/t/windows-10-users-complain-newest-update-is-deleting-their-files/82411)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/windows-10-users-complain-newest-update-is-deleting-their-files/82411 "2020-04-26T11:58:42Z")
Some Windows users are reporting serious problems after downloading Microsoft’s latest update for Windows 10, according to Forbes: The problems those users are reporting to the Microsoft support forums and on social … --- ## [10 Kinds of Apples That Were Thought to Be Extinct Have Been Rediscovered](https://onehack.st/t/10-kinds-of-apples-that-were-thought-to-be-extinct-have-been-rediscovered/82249)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/10-kinds-of-apples-that-were-thought-to-be-extinct-have-been-rediscovered/82249 "2020-04-25T22:05:57Z")
“Ten apple varieties that were thought to be extinct have been recovered thanks to a non-profit group of apple hunters,” reports CNN: Founder of the Lost Apple Project, David Benscoter, told CNN that it all started wh… --- ## [Facebook Accuses NSO Group of Using US Servers for Spying](https://onehack.st/t/facebook-accuses-nso-group-of-using-us-servers-for-spying/82144)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/facebook-accuses-nso-group-of-using-us-servers-for-spying/82144 "2020-04-25T12:44:34Z")
Facebook has accused the Israeli surveillance technology company NSO Group of using servers located in the U.S. to infect hundreds of smartphones with spyware. From a report: The allegation comes as part of a lawsuit… --- ## [Trump Threatens To Block Aid For US Post Office If It Does Not Raise Prices](https://onehack.st/t/trump-threatens-to-block-aid-for-us-post-office-if-it-does-not-raise-prices/82143)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/trump-threatens-to-block-aid-for-us-post-office-if-it-does-not-raise-prices/82143 "2020-04-25T12:42:49Z")
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to block federal aid for the U.S. Postal Service unless it raises shipping rates for online companies like Amazon.com, pro… --- ## [Nintendo confirms that hackers might have hijacked 160,000 user accounts](https://onehack.st/t/nintendo-confirms-that-hackers-might-have-hijacked-160-000-user-accounts/82056)
**Author:** [@Ze380y](https://onehack.st/u/Ze380y)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/nintendo-confirms-that-hackers-might-have-hijacked-160-000-user-accounts/82056 "2020-04-25T02:49:03Z")
Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. https://i0.wp.com/www.saudi24.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/nintendo-swit… --- ## [Trump Muses About Light as Remedy, but Also Disinfectant, Which Is Dangerous](https://onehack.st/t/trump-muses-about-light-as-remedy-but-also-disinfectant-which-is-dangerous/82036)
**Author:** [@Prometheus](https://onehack.st/u/Prometheus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/trump-muses-about-light-as-remedy-but-also-disinfectant-which-is-dangerous/82036 "2020-04-24T21:57:16Z")
President Trump has long pinned his hopes on the powers of sunlight to defeat the Covid-19 virus. He returned to that theme at the White House coronavirus briefing on Thursday, bringing in a science administrator to ba… --- ## [Apple and Google Pledge To Shut Down Coronavirus Tracker When Pandemic Ends ](https://onehack.st/t/apple-and-google-pledge-to-shut-down-coronavirus-tracker-when-pandemic-ends/82035)
**Author:** [@Prometheus](https://onehack.st/u/Prometheus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/apple-and-google-pledge-to-shut-down-coronavirus-tracker-when-pandemic-ends/82035 "2020-04-24T21:52:51Z")
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: On Friday, Apple and Google revised their ambitious automatic contact-tracing proposal, just two weeks after the system was first announced. An Apple representative… --- ## [Google's Flutter: 2 Million Developers, Uptick In Enterprise Use, New Release Model Revealed](https://onehack.st/t/googles-flutter-2-million-developers-uptick-in-enterprise-use-new-release-model-revealed/81958)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/googles-flutter-2-million-developers-uptick-in-enterprise-use-new-release-model-revealed/81958 "2020-04-24T12:14:25Z")
Liam Tung writing via ZDNet: Google says two million developers have used its Flutter user-interface (UI) framework for building apps targeting mobile, desktop, and the web since declaring it production ready at Goog… --- ## [Malwarebytes Releases New VPN Service For Windows](https://onehack.st/t/malwarebytes-releases-new-vpn-service-for-windows/81957)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/malwarebytes-releases-new-vpn-service-for-windows/81957 "2020-04-24T12:50:30Z")
The popular anti-malware software MalwareBytes is releasing a new Windows VPN service called Malwarebytes Privacy. The company says it plans on offering Mac, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS versions in the future. Bleeping… --- ## [First Human Trial In Europe of a Coronavirus Vaccine Has Begun In Oxford](https://onehack.st/t/first-human-trial-in-europe-of-a-coronavirus-vaccine-has-begun-in-oxford/81955)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/first-human-trial-in-europe-of-a-coronavirus-vaccine-has-begun-in-oxford/81955 "2020-04-24T13:05:34Z")
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected, the first of more than 800 people recruited for the study.… --- ## [NordVPN Unveils First Mainstream WireGuard Virtual Private Network](https://onehack.st/t/nordvpn-unveils-first-mainstream-wireguard-virtual-private-network/81792)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/nordvpn-unveils-first-mainstream-wireguard-virtual-private-network/81792 "2020-04-23T11:19:01Z")
One of the largest VPN companies, NordVPN, is rolling out NordLynx – it’s first mainstream WireGuard virtual private network for its Windows, Mac, Android and iOS client-software applications. ZDNet reports: NordVPN’… --- ## [Air Pollution Falls By Unprecedented Levels In Major Global Cities During Coronavirus Lockdowns](https://onehack.st/t/air-pollution-falls-by-unprecedented-levels-in-major-global-cities-during-coronavirus-lockdowns/81790)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2020, 11:16am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/air-pollution-falls-by-unprecedented-levels-in-major-global-cities-during-coronavirus-lockdowns/81790 "2020-04-23T11:16:33Z")
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Lockdowns restricting travel and industry imposed to halt the spread of coronavirus have resulted in unprecedented reductions in deadly air pollution around the world, ne… --- ## [Hackers selling 267 million Facebook records on hacker forum](https://onehack.st/t/hackers-selling-267-million-facebook-records-on-hacker-forum/81700)
**Author:** [@Jenna](https://onehack.st/u/Jenna)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/hackers-selling-267-million-facebook-records-on-hacker-forum/81700 "2020-04-23T02:28:53Z")
Currently, the trove of 267 million Facebook records are being sold for around $600 on the hacker forum. Facebook has more than 2.5 billion monthly active users and when its data is breached, that’s bad news for everyone… --- ## [The founders of Instagram reunite to create a coronavirus tracker website](https://onehack.st/t/the-founders-of-instagram-reunite-to-create-a-coronavirus-tracker-website/81695)
**Author:** [@Margaret](https://onehack.st/u/Margaret)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-founders-of-instagram-reunite-to-create-a-coronavirus-tracker-website/81695 "2020-04-23T02:05:46Z")
The name Rt comes from the metric which the site tracks, which the site describes as “the effective reproduction rate of the virus calculated for each locale. It lets us estimate how many secondary infections are likely … --- ## [Hacking Apple iPhones and iPads by sending emails to the victims](https://onehack.st/t/hacking-apple-iphones-and-ipads-by-sending-emails-to-the-victims/81675)
**Author:** [@Ze380y](https://onehack.st/u/Ze380y)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/hacking-apple-iphones-and-ipads-by-sending-emails-to-the-victims/81675 "2020-04-23T00:56:50Z")
Two zero-day flaws in the default mailing app pre-installed on iPhones and iPads allow attackers to hack the devices just by sending emails. “The attack’s scope consists of sending a specially crafted email to a victim’… --- ## [Coronavirus: US health official warns of dangerous second wave](https://onehack.st/t/coronavirus-us-health-official-warns-of-dangerous-second-wave/81639)
**Author:** [@Sarah](https://onehack.st/u/Sarah)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/coronavirus-us-health-official-warns-of-dangerous-second-wave/81639 "2020-04-22T20:25:48Z")
Robert Redfield, the CDC director, warned that a wave of coronavirus in the winter would coincide with the flu season. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock A leading US public health officia… --- ## [\[Live Webinar\] Interviewing from home: CODEACADEMY](https://onehack.st/t/live-webinar-interviewing-from-home-codeacademy/81604)
**Author:** [@dydx](https://onehack.st/u/dydx)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/live-webinar-interviewing-from-home-codeacademy/81604 "2020-04-24T15:38:08Z")
Interviewing From Home is a global online event presented by Codecademy. Throughout several sessions, you’ll learn how to effectively find, interview for, and start a new job while practicing social distancing. Expert… --- ## [Stripe Is Silently Recording Your Movements On Its Customers' Websites](https://onehack.st/t/stripe-is-silently-recording-your-movements-on-its-customers-websites/81555)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/stripe-is-silently-recording-your-movements-on-its-customers-websites/81555 "2020-04-22T14:10:08Z")
Michael Lynch, blogger and former software engineer at Microsoft and Google, discovered that the payment processing platform Stripe and its official JavaScript library records all browsing activity on its customers’ w… --- ## [Facebook Has Released a Map of Coronavirus Symptoms Crowdsourced From Its Users](https://onehack.st/t/facebook-has-released-a-map-of-coronavirus-symptoms-crowdsourced-from-its-users/81553)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/facebook-has-released-a-map-of-coronavirus-symptoms-crowdsourced-from-its-users/81553 "2020-04-22T14:07:36Z")
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Facebook has released a map showing the proportion of people who say they have experienced coronavirus symptoms in each state in the US. The data was ga… --- ## [Facebook buys 9.99% stake in Reliance Jio for Rs 43,574 crore ( privacy is gone )](https://onehack.st/t/facebook-buys-9-99-stake-in-reliance-jio-for-rs-43-574-crore-privacy-is-gone/81509)
**Author:** [@mydadsperm](https://onehack.st/u/mydadsperm)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/facebook-buys-9-99-stake-in-reliance-jio-for-rs-43-574-crore-privacy-is-gone/81509 "2020-04-22T10:07:01Z")
US social media giant Facebook will invest Rs 43,574 crore into Jio Platforms, a unit of Reliance Industries for a 9.99% stake, a development which on Wednesday boosted the shares of India’s oil-to-retail conglomerate o… --- ## [Indian government announces video conferencing app development challenge | 1Crore Reward](https://onehack.st/t/indian-government-announces-video-conferencing-app-development-challenge-1crore-reward/81364)
**Author:** [@Rahul\_Negi](https://onehack.st/u/Rahul_Negi)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/indian-government-announces-video-conferencing-app-development-challenge-1crore-reward/81364 "2020-04-21T17:31:04Z")
Want to earn a good amount of money by developing a zoom alternative app. Official Site- Click Here Register before Apr 30,2020 Reward Amount - 1 Crore ($129898 USD) --- ## [Find Out If Your ISP implements BGP Safely](https://onehack.st/t/find-out-if-your-isp-implements-bgp-safely/81355)
**Author:** [@Prometheus](https://onehack.st/u/Prometheus)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/find-out-if-your-isp-implements-bgp-safely/81355 "2020-04-21T17:15:02Z")
Cloudflare launched Is BGP safe yet recently that provides Internet users with a test to find out whether their Internet Service Provider (ISP) has implemented a certification system to make BGP safer to use. All it tak… --- ## [2 Billion Phones Cannot Use Google and Apple Contact-Tracing Tech](https://onehack.st/t/2-billion-phones-cannot-use-google-and-apple-contact-tracing-tech/81311)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 12:04pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/2-billion-phones-cannot-use-google-and-apple-contact-tracing-tech/81311 "2020-04-21T12:04:55Z")
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As many as a billion mobile phone owners around the world will be unable to use the smartphone-based system proposed by Apple and Google to track whether they ha… --- ## [Whole Foods Is Reportedly Using a Heat Map To Track Stores At Risk of Unionization](https://onehack.st/t/whole-foods-is-reportedly-using-a-heat-map-to-track-stores-at-risk-of-unionization/81310)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/whole-foods-is-reportedly-using-a-heat-map-to-track-stores-at-risk-of-unionization/81310 "2020-04-21T12:03:35Z")
According to Business Insider, Amazon-owned Whole Foods is tracking and scoring stores it deems at risk of unionizing through an interactive heat map. From the report: The heat map is powered by an elaborate scoring … --- ## [Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered hiv says covid-19 “could only have been created in a lab”](https://onehack.st/t/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-who-discovered-hiv-says-covid-19-could-only-have-been-created-in-a-lab/81237)
**Author:** [@Sarah](https://onehack.st/u/Sarah)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-who-discovered-hiv-says-covid-19-could-only-have-been-created-in-a-lab/81237 "2020-04-21T08:04:45Z")
The Truth Will Eventually Come Out “Nature does not accept any molecular tinkering, it will eliminate these unnatural changes and even if nothing is done, things will get better, but unfortunately after many deaths.” “… --- ## [Explaining how a plasma transplant may help coronavirus patients recover](https://onehack.st/t/explaining-how-a-plasma-transplant-may-help-coronavirus-patients-recover/81232)
**Author:** [@Sarah](https://onehack.st/u/Sarah)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/explaining-how-a-plasma-transplant-may-help-coronavirus-patients-recover/81232 "2020-04-21T04:35:48Z")
Researchers examine whether the blood of a recovered patient can help others. https://abcn.ws/3euFp2j How can antibodies be used to treat COVID-19: Blood plasma explained Find out how a potentially life-saving treatmen… --- ## [Google is Blocking 18 Million Coronavirus Scam Emails Every Day](https://onehack.st/t/google-is-blocking-18-million-coronavirus-scam-emails-every-day/81055)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-is-blocking-18-million-coronavirus-scam-emails-every-day/81055 "2020-04-21T07:18:58Z")
1.5 billion people use Gmail, according to a recent article in the BBC. And every day millions of them receive an email about a coronavirus scam: Scammers are sending 18 million hoax emails about Covid-19 to Gmail us… --- ## [Hacking the Pandemic: Global Research Community Gathers Online Against COVID-19](https://onehack.st/t/hacking-the-pandemic-global-research-community-gathers-online-against-covid-19/81054)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/hacking-the-pandemic-global-research-community-gathers-online-against-covid-19/81054 "2020-04-20T12:23:08Z")
Long-time Slashdot reader DrYak writes: Over 500 scientists, software developers and clinicians joined forces in the COVID-19 virtual Biohackathon to develop new tools for working with the COVID-19 data. The outcomes … --- ## [Will The Pandemic Force Us to Learn How to Cook?](https://onehack.st/t/will-the-pandemic-force-us-to-learn-how-to-cook/81053)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/will-the-pandemic-force-us-to-learn-how-to-cook/81053 "2020-04-20T13:13:17Z")
“In one recent survey, 54 percent of respondents said they cook more than before the pandemic,” writes a clinical associate professor at NYU’s business school: 75 percent said they have become more confident in the k… [Previous page](https://onehack.st/c/news-articles/30.md?page=106) [Next page](https://onehack.st/c/news-articles/30.md?page=108)