Don’t Speak — Pixel Envy

https://pxlnv.com/blog/dont-speak/

The more I’ve thought about Apple’s statement regarding the iOS exploit chains discovered last week, the more bizarre it seems

Gene-edited cattle have a major screwup in their DNA - MIT Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614235/recombinetics-gene-edited-hornless-cattle-major-dna-screwup/

contaminated by bacterial genes.

Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers - Financial Times

https://www.ft.com/content/e3e1697e-ce57-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f

Google is secretly using hidden web pages that feed the personal data of its users to advertisers, undermining its own policies and circumventing EU privacy regulations

YouTube to pay $170 million in FTC child privacy settlement

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/04/youtube-to-pay-170-million-in-ftc-child-privacy-settlement.html

Google and YouTube knowingly and illegally monitored, tracked, and served targeted ads to young children just to keep advertising dollars rolling in

Sources say China used iPhone hacks to target Uyghur Muslims - TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/31/china-google-iphone-uyghur/

Daring Fireball: Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ Tool Is, of Course, Bullshit

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/08/26/facebook-clear-history

Employees connect nuclear plant to the internet so they can mine cryptocurrency - ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/employees-connect-nuclear-plant-to-the-internet-so-they-can-mine-cryptocurrency/

Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking - WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/ios-attack-watering-hole-project-zero/

the biggest known iPhone hacking incident of all time.

The hackers still made some strangely amateurish mistakes

Hackers Could Steal a Tesla Model S by Cloning Its Key Fob—Again - WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-steal-tesla-model-s-key-fob-encryption/

The same researchers who figured out how to clone a Tesla Model S key fob have done it again, cracking the replacement that was meant to fix the problem.

I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me. - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/23/opinion/data-internet-privacy-tracking.html

This is happening every day, all the time, and the only reason we’re O.K. with it is that it’s happening behind the scenes […] If we all had pictures like this, we might revolt.