The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies – Bloomberg

I've been saying for years now that the US's reliance on cheap Chinese labor would lead to mission critical systems being compromised. This story from Bloomberg sheds a light on a physical hardware hack originated in China's manufacturing and labor force, perpetuated by the Chinese government & spy agencies. The story is long, but it's …

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies – Bloomberg

I've been saying for years now that the US's reliance on cheap Chinese labor would lead to mission critical systems being compromised. This story from Bloomberg sheds a light on a physical hardware hack originated in China's manufacturing and labor force, perpetuated by the Chinese government & spy agencies. The story is long, but it's …

Lucasfilm Has Reportedly Ceased Development Of All ‘Star Wars Story’ Spinoffs After ‘Solo’

Well it appears as though the shit fest that is Solo: A Star Wars Story may be having some negative (or is it positive) effects within Lucasfilm & Disney. There's a rumour going around saying that all internal development of stand alone Star Wars movies have been stopped. To date Solo has made 339.6 million …

Europe’s GDPR Is Killing Email Marketing, to the Disappointment of No One

Ahh hahaha suck it email marketers!! Due to Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) websites have been sending emails regarding their updated privacy policies and new permissions as required by the law. The open rate on these emails is between 15% and 25%, which is about average for unsolicited messages. It isn't that big a …

Chris Hardwick responds to Chloe Dykstra’s account with denials of abusive behavior

No surprise here, Chris Hardwick denies Chloe Dykstra's claims of verbal and sexual abuse during their 3 year relationship.

China hackers steal data from US Navy contractor – reports – BBC News

Okay, I'm just going to come out and say this- China and its continued successful hacking of US assets is going to get a lot of soldiers killed on the battlefield. China has continued to hack their way in, bribe their way in, or flip people in the US to China's side, and are getting …

Facebook bug changes default post settings from private to public

Let's be honest, Facebook just isn't having a good year. This newly released story about a bug that made private posts public is just one more notch on the bedpost that Facebook didn't need in the news. Now to be fair 14 million users is a drop in the bucket for Zuck & Co., but …

Words that just don’t sound right together

I'm looking at book a flight to South Carolina. My family is there (mom & my brudder) so I want to visit them. I go to Priceline to check out prices for tickets. When putting in the flight information I come across the seating options. There's First Class, Business, and economy as I expected. But …

I’m back to using the Gboard keyboard….sigh

I tried. I really tried to use other keyboards besides Gboard. I liked Gramerly a lot,but it didn't have auto predicting or auto correcting options. Or if it did then I didn't find them. I tried SwiftKey,but that was worse than Gramerly. I kept hitting the back space key over and over and over again. …

Google says Android P will ditch that annoying ‘app is using battery’ notification from Oreo | 9to5Google

The headline says it all. Thank God, because that "app using battery" notice was super annoying and not useful AT ALL!