# News & Articles **URL:** https://onehack.st/c/news-articles/30.md?page=121 [Latest](https://onehack.st/latest.md) · [Categories](https://onehack.st/categories.md) · [Tags](https://onehack.st/tags.md) **Page:** 122 --- ## [Researchers Find 'Anonymized' Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought](https://onehack.st/t/researchers-find-anonymized-data-is-even-less-anonymous-than-we-thought/68424)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2020, 8:35am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/researchers-find-anonymized-data-is-even-less-anonymous-than-we-thought/68424 "2020-02-04T08:35:46Z")
Corporations love to pretend that ‘anonymization’ of the data they collect protects consumers. Studies keep showing that’s not really true. From a report: Last fall, AdBlock Plus creator Wladimir Palant revealed that… --- ## [Firefox Now Shows What Telemetry Data It's Collecting About You](https://onehack.st/t/firefox-now-shows-what-telemetry-data-its-collecting-about-you/68421)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/firefox-now-shows-what-telemetry-data-its-collecting-about-you/68421 "2020-02-04T07:55:35Z")
There is now a special page in the Firefox browser where users can see what telemetry data Mozilla is collecting from their browser. From a report: https://zdnet1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2020/01/31/36677b7b-0200-4483-a471-… --- ## [YouTube Reveals Revenue For First Time: $15.1 Billion In 2019](https://onehack.st/t/youtube-reveals-revenue-for-first-time-15-1-billion-in-2019/68420)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/youtube-reveals-revenue-for-first-time-15-1-billion-in-2019/68420 "2020-02-04T07:52:17Z")
For the first time, Google revealed that YouTube generated $15.1 billion in ad revenue in fiscal 2019, including $4.7 billion in the fourth quarter. The company disclosed the numbers in its quarterly earnings report, whi… --- ## [AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core Beast Spotted Outscoring Dual Intel Xeon Platinum](https://onehack.st/t/amd-threadripper-3990x-64-core-beast-spotted-outscoring-dual-intel-xeon-platinum/68418)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/amd-threadripper-3990x-64-core-beast-spotted-outscoring-dual-intel-xeon-platinum/68418 "2020-02-04T07:48:36Z")
When AMD unveiled its forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-core processor at CES 2020 this year, the company made no bones about comparing its performance to a many-core competitive platform from Intel. Under the hood… --- ## [Elon Musk Announces AI Party/Hackathon At His Home With Tesla AI/Autopilot Team](https://onehack.st/t/elon-musk-announces-ai-party-hackathon-at-his-home-with-tesla-ai-autopilot-team/68416)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/elon-musk-announces-ai-party-hackathon-at-his-home-with-tesla-ai-autopilot-team/68416 "2020-02-04T07:39:57Z")
On Twitter yesterday evening, Elon Musk announced an upcoming AI party/hackathon to be held at his house, and that invites will be going out soon. Asked whether a person needs to have a Ph.D to attend, Musk replied no: "… --- ## [NASA Sets 2022 Launch For Air Quality Sensor That Will Provide Hourly Updates Across North America](https://onehack.st/t/nasa-sets-2022-launch-for-air-quality-sensor-that-will-provide-hourly-updates-across-north-america/68415)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2020, 7:35am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/nasa-sets-2022-launch-for-air-quality-sensor-that-will-provide-hourly-updates-across-north-america/68415 "2020-02-04T07:35:29Z")
NASA is launching a new air quality measurement tool aboard a Maxar 1300-class satellite to help improve air quality forecasting. Called “TEMPO,” which stands for Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, the new … --- ## [Ex-CIA Engineer Set To Go On Trial For Vault 7 Leak](https://onehack.st/t/ex-cia-engineer-set-to-go-on-trial-for-vault-7-leak/68411)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2020, 7:25am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ex-cia-engineer-set-to-go-on-trial-for-vault-7-leak/68411 "2020-02-04T07:25:14Z")
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Manhattan federal prosecutors are poised to open their case Tuesday in the trial of a former software engineer for the Central Intelligence Agency who is charged with handing… --- ## [Google Photos Trialing Monthly Subscription To Get Your Best Pictures Auto-Printed](https://onehack.st/t/google-photos-trialing-monthly-subscription-to-get-your-best-pictures-auto-printed/68410)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-photos-trialing-monthly-subscription-to-get-your-best-pictures-auto-printed/68410 "2020-02-04T07:19:11Z")
Google Photos is now trialing a “monthly photo prints” subscription program where the company will send you 10 prints that will be “automatically selected from your last 30 days of photos.” 9to5Gogole reports: This s… --- ## [Is Amazon Responding to Employee Concerns About 'Ring' Privacy?](https://onehack.st/t/is-amazon-responding-to-employee-concerns-about-ring-privacy/68335)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/is-amazon-responding-to-employee-concerns-about-ring-privacy/68335 "2020-02-03T14:03:41Z")
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society,” wrote Amazon software developer Max Eliaser (as part of last week’s Medium … --- ## [Why the Super Bowl Is Being Broadcast In Fake 4K](https://onehack.st/t/why-the-super-bowl-is-being-broadcast-in-fake-4k/68334)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/why-the-super-bowl-is-being-broadcast-in-fake-4k/68334 "2020-02-03T14:01:10Z")
Today Fox will broadcast the Super Bowl in 4K and HDR, reports Gizmodo’s senior consumer tech editor. But “the 4K is fake 4K, and, according to Digital Trend’s interview with one of the men producing the Bowl, there’s… --- ## [Chrome Tests Removing the URL of Google's Search Results Page](https://onehack.st/t/chrome-tests-removing-the-url-of-googles-search-results-page/68333)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/chrome-tests-removing-the-url-of-googles-search-results-page/68333 "2020-02-03T13:57:42Z")
Google has started testing a feature that will display the search query in the Chrome address bar rather than the actual page’s URL when performing searches on Google. This experimental feature is called “Query in Om… --- ## [Have a First Aid Question? Don't Ask Siri Or Cortana](https://onehack.st/t/have-a-first-aid-question-dont-ask-siri-or-cortana/68221)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/have-a-first-aid-question-dont-ask-siri-or-cortana/68221 "2020-02-03T03:21:06Z")
AmiMoJo quotes Mashable: A new study from the University of Alberta, published Tuesday in the medical journal The BMJ, tested smart assistants Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Google Assistant on their ability to respond hel… --- ## [Stephen King, Elon Musk Criticize Social Media Policies](https://onehack.st/t/stephen-king-elon-musk-criticize-social-media-policies/68219)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/stephen-king-elon-musk-criticize-social-media-policies/68219 "2020-02-03T03:10:18Z")
CNN’s update about best-selling author Stephen King: https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1223425267831574534?s=20 “I’m quitting Facebook,” the author said on Twitter Friday. “Not comfortable with the flood of fal… --- ## [Despite Promises, Facebook's Instagram Is Still Spreading Anti-Vaccine Disinformation](https://onehack.st/t/despite-promises-facebooks-instagram-is-still-spreading-anti-vaccine-disinformation/68216)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/despite-promises-facebooks-instagram-is-still-spreading-anti-vaccine-disinformation/68216 "2020-02-03T03:02:02Z")
“It’s been almost a year since Instagram pledged to reduce the spread of vaccine-related misinformation on its platform. But today, it continues to do the exact opposite,” reports the Huffington Post: When HuffPost… --- ## [Ubuntu vs Windows 10: Performance Tests on a Walmart Laptop](https://onehack.st/t/ubuntu-vs-windows-10-performance-tests-on-a-walmart-laptop/68214)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ubuntu-vs-windows-10-performance-tests-on-a-walmart-laptop/68214 "2020-02-03T02:56:49Z")
Phoronix’s Michael Larabel is doing some performance testing on Walmart’s $199 Motile-branded M141 laptop (which has an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor, Vega 3 graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 14-inch 1080p display). But first h… --- ## [The World's Largest Solar Telescope Snaps Its First Photograph](https://onehack.st/t/the-worlds-largest-solar-telescope-snaps-its-first-photograph/68066)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-worlds-largest-solar-telescope-snaps-its-first-photograph/68066 "2020-02-02T14:52:40Z")
This new close-up of the turbulent boiling plasma of the solar surface is the debut image of the largest telescope ever built for staring at the Sun. Sporting a 4-meter-wide mirror—twice the size of any existing solar… --- ## [Cringely Predicts IBM 'Disappears Into Red Hat](https://onehack.st/t/cringely-predicts-ibm-disappears-into-red-hat/68065)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/cringely-predicts-ibm-disappears-into-red-hat/68065 "2020-02-02T14:49:40Z")
Tech pundit Robert X. Cringely has been sharing technology predictions every January for over two decades – and he made another big one on Friday: IBM has three divisions — Global Technology Services (GTS), Global Busin… --- ## [Should Huawei Just Abandon Android?](https://onehack.st/t/should-huawei-just-abandon-android/68023)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2020, 11:10am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/should-huawei-just-abandon-android/68023 "2020-02-02T11:10:41Z")
Due to a U.S. government ban on sales to Huawei, Google revoked its license for popular apps last spring (including Gmail and the Play Store). But this week Huawei executive Fred Wangfei suggested that even if that ban i… --- ## [Elon Musk Releases an Electronic Dance Music Song | The latest, strangest news!](https://onehack.st/t/elon-musk-releases-an-electronic-dance-music-song-the-latest-strangest-news/68022)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/elon-musk-releases-an-electronic-dance-music-song-the-latest-strangest-news/68022 "2020-02-02T10:59:50Z")
CNET shares “the latest, strangest news from the world of Elon Musk…electronic dance music?” It’s the second song he’s released on Emo G Records’ Soundcloud page following 2019’s RIP Harambe. … --- ## [Linus Torvalds Pulls WireGuard VPN into Linux 5.6 Kernel Source Tree](https://onehack.st/t/linus-torvalds-pulls-wireguard-vpn-into-linux-5-6-kernel-source-tree/68020)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/linus-torvalds-pulls-wireguard-vpn-into-linux-5-6-kernel-source-tree/68020 "2020-02-02T10:54:53Z")
“The WireGuard VPN protocol will be included into the next Linux kernel as Linus Torvalds has merged it into his source tree for version 5.6,” reports TechRadar: While there are many popular VPN protocols such as O… --- ## [Programmer Moneyball: Challenging the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity](https://onehack.st/t/programmer-moneyball-challenging-the-myth-of-individual-programmer-productivity/68014)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/programmer-moneyball-challenging-the-myth-of-individual-programmer-productivity/68014 "2020-02-02T10:06:54Z")
New article from Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute: An academic study challenges the notion that "some programmers are much, much better than others (the times-10, or x10, programmer), and that the skil… --- ## [Does a Vegan Diet Affect Your Intelligence?](https://onehack.st/t/does-a-vegan-diet-affect-your-intelligence/68008)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/does-a-vegan-diet-affect-your-intelligence/68008 "2020-02-02T12:05:00Z")
“The vegan diet is low in — or, in some cases, entirely devoid of — several important brain nutrients,” argues the BBC. “Could these shortcomings be affecting vegans’ abilities to think?” https://www.plantbasednews.org/… --- ## [OpenBSD Mail Server Bug Allowed Remotely Executing Shell Commands As Root](https://onehack.st/t/openbsd-mail-server-bug-allowed-remotely-executing-shell-commands-as-root/68007)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/openbsd-mail-server-bug-allowed-remotely-executing-shell-commands-as-root/68007 "2020-02-02T09:28:24Z")
This week a remotely-exploitable vulnerability (granting root privileges) was discovered in OpenSMTPD (OpenBSD’s implementation of server-side SMTP). ZDNet notes that the library’s “portable” version “has also been inco… --- ## [FBI Probes Use of Israeli Firm's Spyware In Personal and Government Hacks](https://onehack.st/t/fbi-probes-use-of-israeli-firms-spyware-in-personal-and-government-hacks/67905)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/fbi-probes-use-of-israeli-firms-spyware-in-personal-and-government-hacks/67905 "2020-02-01T12:30:51Z")
The probe was underway by 2017, when Federal Bureau of Investigation officials were trying to learn whether NSO obtained from American hackers any of the code it needed to infect smartphones, said one person interview… --- ## [How Much Are We Paying for Our Subscription Services? A Lot](https://onehack.st/t/how-much-are-we-paying-for-our-subscription-services-a-lot/67904)
**Author:** [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-much-are-we-paying-for-our-subscription-services-a-lot/67904 "2020-02-01T12:27:41Z")
Online subscriptions sure sound cheap, but what do a few bucks a month to watch TV shows, store photos online and stream music add up to? Quite a lot, it turns out. From a report: In 2019, we each spent $640 on digita… --- ## [Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You Think](https://onehack.st/t/public-wi-fi-is-a-lot-safer-than-you-think/67870)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2020, 6:36am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/public-wi-fi-is-a-lot-safer-than-you-think/67870 "2020-02-01T06:36:39Z")
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, writing for EFF: If you follow security on the Internet, you may have seen articles warning you to “beware of public Wi-Fi networks” in cafes, airports, hotels, and other public places. But now… --- ## [Huawei Outsells Apple In 2019, Becomes No. 2 Global Smartphone Vendor](https://onehack.st/t/huawei-outsells-apple-in-2019-becomes-no-2-global-smartphone-vendor/67868)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2020, 6:18am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/huawei-outsells-apple-in-2019-becomes-no-2-global-smartphone-vendor/67868 "2020-02-01T06:18:30Z")
Market research firms Canalys and Counterpoint Research have posted their 2019 global smartphone market share reports. Both reports say the biggest mover is Huawei, which, thanks to a whopping 16-17 percent annual gro… --- ## [Any foreign national who has traveled within china in the last 14 days will not be allowed to enter the United States country](https://onehack.st/t/any-foreign-national-who-has-traveled-within-china-in-the-last-14-days-will-not-be-allowed-to-enter-the-united-states-country/67867)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/any-foreign-national-who-has-traveled-within-china-in-the-last-14-days-will-not-be-allowed-to-enter-the-united-states-country/67867 "2020-02-01T10:00:32Z")
US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Coronavirus The Trump administration on Friday declared a public healthy emergency over the coronavirus outbreak and said any foreign national who has traveled within China in the… --- ## [A New Bill Could Punish Web Platforms For Using End-To-End Encryption](https://onehack.st/t/a-new-bill-could-punish-web-platforms-for-using-end-to-end-encryption/67862)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/a-new-bill-could-punish-web-platforms-for-using-end-to-end-encryption/67862 "2020-02-01T12:22:59Z")
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is working on a bill that would reduce legal protections for apps and websites, potentially jeopardizing online encryption. The Verge reports: The draft bill would form a “National Commission on… --- ## [Social Media Boosting Service Exposed Thousands of Instagram Passwords](https://onehack.st/t/social-media-boosting-service-exposed-thousands-of-instagram-passwords/67861)
**Author:** [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2020, 5:58am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/social-media-boosting-service-exposed-thousands-of-instagram-passwords/67861 "2020-02-01T05:58:39Z")
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 c… [Previous page](https://onehack.st/c/news-articles/30.md?page=120) [Next page](https://onehack.st/c/news-articles/30.md?page=122)