TikTok – så kan du være i lomma på en fremmed makt – NRK Urix
https://www.nrk.no/urix/tiktok-_-sa-kan-du-vaere-i-lomma-pa-en-fremmed-makt-1.15105847
Musikk- og danse-appen TikTok lastes ned for uskyldig moro og tidtrøyte. Men kan den bli et redskap for å undergrave demokratiske land?
Checking Up on Promises Made During Tech Company Acquisitions - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Garmin outage caused by confirmed WastedLocker ransomware attack
multiple flyGarmin services used by aircraft pilots are down, including the flyGarmin website and mobile app, Connext Services (weather, CMC, and position reports) and Garmin Pilot Apps (Flight plan filing unless connected to FltPlan, account syncing, and database concierge).
inReach satellite tech (Service Activation and Billing) and Garmin Explore (Explore site and Explore app sign) used for location sharing, GPS navigation, logistics, and tracking through the Iridium satellite network are also down.
Garmin did a hard shutdown of all devices hosted in a data center as well to prevent them from possibly being encrypted.
This company-wide shutdown is what caused the global outage for Garmin Connect and other connected services.
Mobility device for the blind works like a handheld robotic guide dog
https://newatlas.com/robotics/theia-blind-handheld-robotic-guide-dog/
Key to this is what’s known as a control moment gyroscope, which often features as part of spacecraft attitude control systems, including that used on the International Space Station. This enables Theia to provide force feedback depending on where it’s headed and move the user’s hand as a way of leading them to a desired direction, much like a guide dog’s brace.
Theia would find its way around through a lidar and camera system that enables it to build a three-dimensional image of the environment
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html
One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism.
The TikTok War – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Twitter says hackers downloaded private account data - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53455092
The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal systems,” it said in a statement
Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts
A Twitter insider was responsible for a wave of high profile account takeovers on Wednesday, according to leaked screenshots obtained by Motherboard and two sources who took over accounts.
On Wednesday, a spike of high profile accounts including those of Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Uber, and Apple tweeted cryptocurrency scams in an apparent hack.