# News & Articles **URL:** https://onehack.st/c/news-articles/30.md?page=113 [Latest](https://onehack.st/latest.md) · [Categories](https://onehack.st/categories.md) · [Tags](https://onehack.st/tags.md) **Page:** 114 --- ## [Let's Encrypt Discovers CAA Bug, Must Revoke Customer Certificates](https://onehack.st/t/lets-encrypt-discovers-caa-bug-must-revoke-customer-certificates/72349)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/lets-encrypt-discovers-caa-bug-must-revoke-customer-certificates/72349 "2020-03-04T19:15:42Z")
rufey writes: The free SSL certificate provider Let’s Encrypt is going to revoke 2.6% of the SSL certs issued by them that are currently active, due to a bug in boulder, the Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) s… --- ## [Google Cloned Apple's 3D Touch For the Pixel Using Just Software](https://onehack.st/t/google-cloned-apples-3d-touch-for-the-pixel-using-just-software/72348)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-cloned-apples-3d-touch-for-the-pixel-using-just-software/72348 "2020-03-04T13:37:53Z")
The latest “feature drop” for Google’s Pixel line of Android phones includes the ability to “firmly press” on the screen “to get more help from your apps more quickly.” If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s a lot… --- ## [8 Popular WordPress Plugins Are Currently Being Exploited By Hackers](https://onehack.st/t/8-popular-wordpress-plugins-are-currently-being-exploited-by-hackers/72276)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/8-popular-wordpress-plugins-are-currently-being-exploited-by-hackers/72276 "2020-03-03T15:44:02Z")
A new report reveals an increased number of attacks against WordPress sites, all of which exploit security flaws in popular plugins. Many of the attacks against WordPress sites last month involve hackers trying to hi… --- ## [Facebook Shrinks Messenger App Size Down By 75%](https://onehack.st/t/facebook-shrinks-messenger-app-size-down-by-75/72257)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/facebook-shrinks-messenger-app-size-down-by-75/72257 "2020-03-03T14:47:42Z")
To make its iPhone messaging app run better – especially on older phones – Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now. From a report: In August 2011, Facebook introduced Messenger, an iP… --- ## [Developers Say Google Didn't Offer Enough Money To Make Stadia Games](https://onehack.st/t/developers-say-google-didnt-offer-enough-money-to-make-stadia-games/72255)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/developers-say-google-didnt-offer-enough-money-to-make-stadia-games/72255 "2020-03-03T12:19:17Z")
After years of development and hype, Google’s long-rumored push into video games arrived last November, with the launch of Google Stadia. Google Stadia isn’t a game console, nor is it a game platform, really – it’s a … --- ## ['Have I Been Pwned' Is No Longer For Sale](https://onehack.st/t/have-i-been-pwned-is-no-longer-for-sale/72254)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/have-i-been-pwned-is-no-longer-for-sale/72254 "2020-03-03T12:18:08Z")
Troy Hunt, the owner and founder of the well-known and respected data breach notification website “Have I Been Pwned,” announced in a blog post today that his website is no longer being sold and will continue running … --- ## [Apple Will Release a Trackpad For the iPad Alongside New Pro Models, Report Claims](https://onehack.st/t/apple-will-release-a-trackpad-for-the-ipad-alongside-new-pro-models-report-claims/72251)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2020, 12:02pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/apple-will-release-a-trackpad-for-the-ipad-alongside-new-pro-models-report-claims/72251 "2020-03-03T12:02:06Z")
According to a report from The Information, Apple plans to introduce a trackpad-equipped keyboard attachment for the iPad Pro alongside its new iPad Pro models sometime this year. Ars Technica reports: This would make… --- ## [Freedb.org Is Shutting Down](https://onehack.st/t/freedb-org-is-shutting-down/72250)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/freedb-org-is-shutting-down/72250 "2020-03-03T12:00:18Z")
AmiMoJo writes: Freedb, the community-generated database of music CD metadata, is shutting down on March 31, 2020. The service was set up as a free alternative to CDDB. Many CD-ripping applications pull metadata from F… --- ## [Earth May Have Been a 'Water World' 3 Billion Years Ago, Scientists Find](https://onehack.st/t/earth-may-have-been-a-water-world-3-billion-years-ago-scientists-find/72249)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/earth-may-have-been-a-water-world-3-billion-years-ago-scientists-find/72249 "2020-03-03T11:59:28Z")
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists have found evidence that Earth was covered by a global ocean that turned the planet into a “water world” more than 3 billion years ago. Telltale chemic… --- ## [Robinhood Glitch Steals From the Poor, Gives To the Rich](https://onehack.st/t/robinhood-glitch-steals-from-the-poor-gives-to-the-rich/72248)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/robinhood-glitch-steals-from-the-poor-gives-to-the-rich/72248 "2020-03-03T11:57:50Z")
theodp writes: On its Careers page, zero-commission online broker Robinhood explains its founders “decided it was more important to build products that would provide everyone with access to the financial markets, not … --- ## [Stealing Advanced Nations' Mac Malware Isn't Hard. Here's How One Hacker Did It](https://onehack.st/t/stealing-advanced-nations-mac-malware-isnt-hard-heres-how-one-hacker-did-it/72187)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/stealing-advanced-nations-mac-malware-isnt-hard-heres-how-one-hacker-did-it/72187 "2020-03-02T17:49:49Z")
Malware developers are always trying to outdo each other with creations that are stealthier and more advanced than their competitors’. At the RSA Security conference last week, a former hacker for the National Securit… --- ## [Rail Station Wi-Fi Provider in UK Exposed Traveller Data](https://onehack.st/t/rail-station-wi-fi-provider-in-uk-exposed-traveller-data/72186)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/rail-station-wi-fi-provider-in-uk-exposed-traveller-data/72186 "2020-03-02T17:48:38Z")
The email addresses and travel details of about 10,000 people who used free wi-fi at UK railway stations have been exposed online. From a report: Network Rail and the service provider C3UK confirmed the incident three… --- ## [12 Countries Are Now Considering Central Bank Digital Currencies](https://onehack.st/t/12-countries-are-now-considering-central-bank-digital-currencies/72153)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/12-countries-are-now-considering-central-bank-digital-currencies/72153 "2020-03-02T13:37:30Z")
“Officials at central banks are considering how and whether to create a digital form of cash,” reports Qz: As money gets swept up by tech innovation, government authorities are taking a closer look at old fashioned no… --- ## [How Streaming Services Saved The Music Industry](https://onehack.st/t/how-streaming-services-saved-the-music-industry/72152)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-streaming-services-saved-the-music-industry/72152 "2020-03-02T16:56:30Z")
An anonymous reader quotes CNN: The music industry was in crisis just a few years ago. Sales were cut in half from their peak as single downloads, YouTube and piracy made the CD album go virtually extinct. But music h… --- ## [Major Republican Donor Seeks Ouster of Twitter's CEO](https://onehack.st/t/major-republican-donor-seeks-ouster-of-twitters-ceo/72151)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/major-republican-donor-seeks-ouster-of-twitters-ceo/72151 "2020-03-02T13:34:41Z")
Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006, coding up the first prototype (with the help of a contractor) when he was still in his 20s. Dorsey’s now it’s CEO – but “A major Republican donor has purchased a stake in Twitte… --- ## ['How a Hacker's Mom Broke Into Prison -- and the Warden's Computer'](https://onehack.st/t/how-a-hackers-mom-broke-into-prison-and-the-wardens-computer/72150)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-a-hackers-mom-broke-into-prison-and-the-wardens-computer/72150 "2020-03-02T13:32:43Z")
An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica: John Strand breaks into things for a living. As a penetration tester, he gets hired by organizations to attack their defenses, helping reveal weaknesses before actual bad guys … --- ## [Newspaper Decries Fearmongering of the 'Student Surveillance Industry'](https://onehack.st/t/newspaper-decries-fearmongering-of-the-student-surveillance-industry/72149)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/newspaper-decries-fearmongering-of-the-student-surveillance-industry/72149 "2020-03-02T13:30:56Z")
Iowa City’s school board heard presentations from “two companies pitching digital surveillance services,” complains a columnist for the Cedar Rapids Gazette , expressing concerns about their offers to “track students… --- ## [Chasing AMD, Intel Promises Full Memory Encryption in Upcoming CPUs](https://onehack.st/t/chasing-amd-intel-promises-full-memory-encryption-in-upcoming-cpus/72027)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/chasing-amd-intel-promises-full-memory-encryption-in-upcoming-cpus/72027 "2020-03-01T13:15:15Z")
“Intel’s security plans sound a lot like ‘we’re going to catch up to AMD,’” argues FOSS advocate and “mercenary sysadmin” Jim Salter at Ars Technica, citing a “present-and-future” presentation by Anil Rao and Scott Wo… --- ## [The 'Go' Team Releases Version 1.14](https://onehack.st/t/the-go-team-releases-version-1-14/72026)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-go-team-releases-version-1-14/72026 "2020-03-01T13:14:04Z")
The new 1.14 release of the Go programming language “is dotted with performance and security improvements,” reports the developer news site DevClass, “but also gives devs more flexibility when it comes to module use.” … --- ## [Stealth Startup Plans Fundamentally New Kind of Computer with Circuit-Rearranging Processor](https://onehack.st/t/stealth-startup-plans-fundamentally-new-kind-of-computer-with-circuit-rearranging-processor/72025)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/stealth-startup-plans-fundamentally-new-kind-of-computer-with-circuit-rearranging-processor/72025 "2020-03-01T13:12:29Z")
VCs have given nearly half a billion dollars to a stealth startup called SambaNova Systems to build “a new kind of computer to replace the typical Von Neumann machines expressed in processors from Intel and AMD, and g… --- ## [World Chess Champion Plays Recklessly Online Using a Pseudonym](https://onehack.st/t/world-chess-champion-plays-recklessly-online-using-a-pseudonym/72024)
**Author:** [@RoohNooh](https://onehack.st/u/RoohNooh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/world-chess-champion-plays-recklessly-online-using-a-pseudonym/72024 "2020-03-01T13:10:48Z")
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen has been sneaking onto online chess sites using stupid pseudonyms and taunting his opponents by using pointless maneuvers with names like “the Bongcloud.” One YouTube commenter call… --- ## [Are Tesla's Cameras a Threat To Our Privacy?](https://onehack.st/t/are-teslas-cameras-a-threat-to-our-privacy/72023)
**Author:** [@Sarah](https://onehack.st/u/Sarah)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/are-teslas-cameras-a-threat-to-our-privacy/72023 "2020-03-01T13:09:46Z")
“I love that my car recorded a hit-and-run on my behalf,” writes a technology columnist at the Washington Post. “Yet I’m scared we’re not ready for the ways cameras pointed inside and outside vehicles will change the … --- ## [A Concise Look At Bilingual Education | Languages](https://onehack.st/t/a-concise-look-at-bilingual-education-languages/72010)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 10:48am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/a-concise-look-at-bilingual-education-languages/72010 "2020-03-01T10:48:37Z")
There is a high chance that all through your academic journey, the medium of instruction has been in only one language. Moreover, the dialect of instruction is likely to be your native language. This convenience is in… --- ## [Raccoon malware steals data from 60 different applications ](https://onehack.st/t/raccoon-malware-steals-data-from-60-different-applications/72007)
**Author:** [@frodo939](https://onehack.st/u/frodo939)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/raccoon-malware-steals-data-from-60-different-applications/72007 "2020-03-01T10:08:48Z")
The company’s specialists CyberArk warned that infostiler Raccoon (aka Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer) is able to steal data from 60 different applications, including popular web browsers, email clients and kripovalyutnye … --- ## [Apple Has Blocked Clearview AI's iPhone App for Violating Its Rules](https://onehack.st/t/apple-has-blocked-clearview-ais-iphone-app-for-violating-its-rules/71894)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/apple-has-blocked-clearview-ais-iphone-app-for-violating-its-rules/71894 "2020-02-29T12:26:23Z")
An iPhone app built by controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI has been blocked by Apple, effectively banning the app from use. From a report: Apple confirmed to TechCrunch that the startup “violated” th… --- ## [IBM and Microsoft Sign Vatican Pledge For Ethical AI](https://onehack.st/t/ibm-and-microsoft-sign-vatican-pledge-for-ethical-ai/71893)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ibm-and-microsoft-sign-vatican-pledge-for-ethical-ai/71893 "2020-02-29T12:24:52Z")
IBM and Microsoft have signed an “ethical resolution” with the Vatican to develop AI in a way that will protect the planet and the rights of all people \[Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source\] .… --- ## [Google's Black Box Algorithm Controls Which Political Emails Land in Your Main Inbox](https://onehack.st/t/googles-black-box-algorithm-controls-which-political-emails-land-in-your-main-inbox/71892)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/googles-black-box-algorithm-controls-which-political-emails-land-in-your-main-inbox/71892 "2020-02-29T12:23:24Z")
Adrianne Jeffries, Leon Yin, and Surya Mattu, reporting for The Markup: Pete Buttigieg is leading at 63 percent. Andrew Yang came in second at 46 percent. And Elizabeth Warren looks like she’s in trouble with 0 percen… --- ## [When AI Can't Replace a Worker, It Watches Them Instead](https://onehack.st/t/when-ai-cant-replace-a-worker-it-watches-them-instead/71891)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/when-ai-cant-replace-a-worker-it-watches-them-instead/71891 "2020-02-29T12:21:34Z")
Whether software that digitizes manual labor makes workers frowny or smiley will come down to how employers choose to use it. From a report: When Tony Huffman stepped away from the production line at the Denso auto pa… --- ## [FCC Proposes Hefty Fines To Carriers for Not Protecting Consumer Location Data](https://onehack.st/t/fcc-proposes-hefty-fines-to-carriers-for-not-protecting-consumer-location-data/71890)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/fcc-proposes-hefty-fines-to-carriers-for-not-protecting-consumer-location-data/71890 "2020-02-29T12:20:02Z")
The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that it has proposed fining the nation’s four largest wireless carriers $200 million for selling access to their customers’ location information without taking re… --- ## [Microsoft's Cortana Drops Consumer Skills as it Refocuses on Business Users](https://onehack.st/t/microsofts-cortana-drops-consumer-skills-as-it-refocuses-on-business-users/71889)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 29, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/microsofts-cortana-drops-consumer-skills-as-it-refocuses-on-business-users/71889 "2020-02-29T12:16:36Z")
With the next version of Windows 10, coming this spring, Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant will lose a number of consumer skills around music and connected homes, as well as some third-party skills. From a report:… [Previous page](https://onehack.st/c/news-articles/30.md?page=112) [Next page](https://onehack.st/c/news-articles/30.md?page=114)