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Ghost-gun sellers react to rule aimed to crack down on the homemade guns by offering them in separate parts rather than complete kits that now require a background check
Ghost-gun sellers react to rule aimed to crack down on the homemade guns by offering them in separate parts rather than complete kits that now require a background check
Companies that manufacture easy-to-assemble firearms are offering products in pieces after the Biden administration rule mandates serial numbers and background checks on kits.
·wsj.com·
Ghost-gun sellers react to rule aimed to crack down on the homemade guns by offering them in separate parts rather than complete kits that now require a background check
Alejandra Caraballo on Twitter
Alejandra Caraballo on Twitter
In the last 5 days, Libs of Tiktok has tweeted and retweeted 14 posts about Boston Children's Hospital. As a result, BCH providers are being inundated in death threats and harassing calls and emails. It's now affecting their services. This is stochastic terrorism, full stop. pic.twitter.com/CEMlRsX6S4— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) August 15, 2022
·twitter.com·
Alejandra Caraballo on Twitter
Daniel Feldman on Twitter
Daniel Feldman on Twitter
In which a blogger finds the private key used to sign Hyundai car software updates … by googling it. They used a key pair from a popular tutorial. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/ydoWfjbvsR— Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman) August 13, 2022
·twitter.com·
Daniel Feldman on Twitter
A Cyberattack Illuminates the Shaky State of Student Privacy
A Cyberattack Illuminates the Shaky State of Student Privacy
At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.
·nytimes.com·
A Cyberattack Illuminates the Shaky State of Student Privacy
Free Law Project ⚖ on Twitter
Free Law Project ⚖ on Twitter
We still need the facts about how PACER/CM/ECF was beached and what materials were accessed, but this is terrible news: It was hacked by "three hostile foreign actors." The only way to fix this is with a new system as defined in the Open Courts Act. We need to pass this bill. https://t.co/3ZpjZXWKnC— Free Law Project ⚖ (@FreeLawProject) July 28, 2022
·twitter.com·
Free Law Project ⚖ on Twitter
TMobile fail
TMobile fail
LMAO, anyone else remember the thread on the left? Well, here's how it turned out. pic.twitter.com/nMezrdzI2e— Jerry Aldrich (@jerryaldrichiii) July 26, 2022
·twitter.com·
TMobile fail
A Eulogy for the CAPTCHA
A Eulogy for the CAPTCHA
Gone but not forgotten
In that sense, CAPTCHA is a tidy allegory of American government: annoying, ugly, ineffectual, predatory, nostalgic, a daily confrontation with our own idiocy. Of course it’s dying out.
·gawker.com·
A Eulogy for the CAPTCHA
Leaked Chats Show LAPSUS$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code
Leaked Chats Show LAPSUS$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code
KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times…
·krebsonsecurity.com·
Leaked Chats Show LAPSUS$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code
Towards a dynamic balance between humans and automation: authority, ability, responsibility and control in shared and cooperative control situations
Towards a dynamic balance between humans and automation: authority, ability, responsibility and control in shared and cooperative control situations
Cognition, Technology & Work - Progress enables the creation of more automated and intelligent machines with increasing abilities that open up new roles between humans and machines. Only with a...
·link.springer.com·
Towards a dynamic balance between humans and automation: authority, ability, responsibility and control in shared and cooperative control situations
Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
What does it mean when we say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out? Why is it important? And how else could we look at this problem?
·lepiter.io·
Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out