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Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers (www.businesswire.com)
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers’ preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...
MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says (slashdot.org)
NASA's Proposed Plasma Rocket Would Get Us to Mars in 2 Months (gizmodo.com)
Last week, NASA announced it is working with a technology development company on a new propulsion system that could transport humans to Mars in only two months – down from the current nine month journey required to reach the Red Planet. Gizmodo reports:...
Why every TOTP app default uses SHA-1 hash encryption?
I use Aegis as my 2fa. Today on new token creation I observed that there’s hash function set to SHA-1, later checked all my tokens and the result is same type of encryption used for all. So I have edited all my tokens to SHA-256 as a result my totp doesn’t authenticate. Do I have to rescan my tokens for updating to SHA-256...
The Bitcoiners were wrong: a blog post about privacy and bitcoin, and how they failed to design a cash alternative (unfathom.ing)
How are companies or developers supposed to make a full time living with OSI opensourced projects? (opensource.org)
There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren’t OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also...
Where is the true succesor to eMule?
Most of you will say that the succesor to eMule is BitTorrent as it is the most widely used P2P network today, but there are some things that BitTorrent lacks and eMule provides. The most notorious for me are the following:...
Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ? (news.itsfoss.com)
The blog Its FOSS has 15,000 followers for its Mastodon account — which they think is causing problems:...
The Yuzu repo is hosted on Radicle, an open source P2P GitHub alternative where repos are hosted and seeded across peoples locally running nodes (app.radicle.xyz)
DVDs, Blu-rays, and VHS tapes: How long does physical media last? (qz.com)
Edward Snowden warns Bitcoin devs, as Monero surges (rebelnet.me)
Edward Snowden issues a stern warning to Bitcoin developers related to privacy,...
Any web site that lets you share files with people like xender ?
I remember there being apps like xender, easy share etc. which lets you share files by one person activating hotspot and the other wifi you just have to have both party close to each other and they use no data . But they are all closed source and probably spyware and its too much of a hassle to get others to download a file...
Ideas for a federated anime tracker
Hello Lemmings....
Tribler: Peer-to-Peer decentralized torrent client (www.tribler.org)
I wanted to gauge interest in Tribler. It claims to be a tor-like p2p client created by privacy researchers. Has anyone had experience with Tribler? Did you get any takedown notices? What were speeds like?
OpenTofu Response to HashiCorp's Cease and Desist Letter (opentofu.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.smeargle.fans/post/145396...
Startup is Building the World's Largest Ocean-Based Carbon Plant - and It's Scalable (edition.cnn.com)
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:...
Dutch government says it may stop using Facebook over privacy concerns (www.cnbc.com)
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued a statement advising the government not to use Facebook pages if it doesn’t get clarity on the privacy risks associated with using the platform....
Canadian Conservatives accused of using AI for amendments to delay jobs bill (www.cbc.ca)
Canadian legislators proposed 19,600 amendments—almost certainly AI-generated—to a bill in an attempt to delay its adoption.
California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery (www.canarymedia.com)
Meanwhile, in Southern California, nonprofit news site Canary Media reports that an old gas combustion plant is being replaced by a “power bank” named Nova....
Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop (apnews.com)
Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured, according to graphic video footage a police oversight agency released Tuesday....
Nearly half of US prisons draw water likely contaminated with toxic PFAS – report (www.theguardian.com)
Around 1m people, including 13,000 youths, especially vulnerable because they can do little to protect themselves, co-author says...