Miscellaneous Tech News
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The ByteCode Alliance wants to bring binary apps into your browser
The Bytecode Alliance aims to promote safe use—and reuse—of untrusted code at speed.
Back in 2015, a consortium including Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and the WebKit project announced WebAssembly. This week, Mozilla, Intel, Red hat, and Fastly announced a new consortium called the Bytecode Alliance, which aims to foster WebAssembly and other "new software foundations" that will allow secure-by-default ways to run untrusted code, either inside or outside the Web browser environment. For many, this raises an obvious question: what is WebAssembly? WebAssembly (wasm) was and is a potentially exciting project, offering a way to run native bytecode inside the browser for potentially very large increases in performance over the Javascript engines in use both then and today. Javascript is frequently misunderstood as a scripting language that is interpreted at runtime. Although it is generally loaded into the browser as source code, it may be either interpreted or compiled to bytecode and executed. Compilation means higher performance execution—particularly inside tight loops—but it also means a startup penalty for the time needed to do the JIT compilation itself. -
Impeachment hearing reveals major White House phone security fail
Diplomat's testimony of Sondland-Trump call just the latest apparent OPSEC lapse by administration.
In testimony yesterday before the House Intelligence Committee, diplomat William Taylor said that he had recently learned of a phone call between George Sondland—the US ambassador to the European Union—and President Donald Trump. Taylor, the senior diplomat for the US in Ukraine, said that his staff overheard Trump during a call with Sondland while at dinner with the ambassador at a restaurant in Kiev. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The ByteCode Alliance wants to bring binary apps into your browser
The Bytecode Alliance aims to promote safe use—and reuse—of untrusted code at speed.
Back in 2015, a consortium including Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and the WebKit project announced WebAssembly. This week, Mozilla, Intel, Red hat, and Fastly announced a new consortium called the Bytecode Alliance, which aims to foster WebAssembly and other "new software foundations" that will allow secure-by-default ways to run untrusted code, either inside or outside the Web browser environment. For many, this raises an obvious question: what is WebAssembly? WebAssembly (wasm) was and is a potentially exciting project, offering a way to run native bytecode inside the browser for potentially very large increases in performance over the Javascript engines in use both then and today. Javascript is frequently misunderstood as a scripting language that is interpreted at runtime. Although it is generally loaded into the browser as source code, it may be either interpreted or compiled to bytecode and executed. Compilation means higher performance execution—particularly inside tight loops—but it also means a startup penalty for the time needed to do the JIT compilation itself.Basically the browser just becomes "yet another" abstracted app platform.
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Unrelenting “ad blocker” plasters users with—you guessed it—ads
Ads Blocker uses several tricks to covertly and constantly bombard users with ads.
A fake ad blocker available outside of Google Play is bombarding Android users with ads, many of them vulgar, and to make matters worse, the cleverly hidden adware is hard to uninstall. As documented by antimalware provider Malwarebytes, Ads Blocker, as the app is called, employs several tricks to surreptitiously and constantly bombard users with ads. The first is to simply ask for usage rights to display over other apps. Next, it makes a connection request to "set up a VPN connection that allows it to monitor network traffic." Finally, it seeks permission to add a widget to the homescreen. -
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Disney's system is definitely broken.
they claim that one account accesses all Disney stuff - but that clearly is not true.
I just tried to log into disney.com and shopdisney.com and my disneyplus.com account didn't work there - in fact it sent me a password reset email because possible compromise.
Get your shit together Disney!
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Disney's system is definitely broken.
they claim that one account accesses all Disney stuff - but that clearly is not true.
I just tried to log into disney.com and shopdisney.com and my disneyplus.com account didn't work there - in fact it sent me a password reset email because possible compromise.
Get your shit together Disney!
Disney and modern have never really gone hand-in-hand.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Disney's system is definitely broken.
they claim that one account accesses all Disney stuff - but that clearly is not true.
I just tried to log into disney.com and shopdisney.com and my disneyplus.com account didn't work there - in fact it sent me a password reset email because possible compromise.
Get your shit together Disney!
Disney and modern have never really gone hand-in-hand.
Who's talking modern? I'm just asking them to fulfill what they are claiming - that one account is good across all of their sites - which clearly it is not.
Even the link that hobbit posted has a tweet where someone gained access to their DVC account, but not their Disney+ account.
They clearly have backend authentication issues.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Disney's system is definitely broken.
they claim that one account accesses all Disney stuff - but that clearly is not true.
I just tried to log into disney.com and shopdisney.com and my disneyplus.com account didn't work there - in fact it sent me a password reset email because possible compromise.
Get your shit together Disney!
It seems as there is no (so far) evidence of a Disney+ hack.
What I got out of it is lots of account credentials stolen from other previously hacked websites and services that now work to log in to Disney+ due to people using the same username and password across different websites and services.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Disney's system is definitely broken.
they claim that one account accesses all Disney stuff - but that clearly is not true.
I just tried to log into disney.com and shopdisney.com and my disneyplus.com account didn't work there - in fact it sent me a password reset email because possible compromise.
Get your shit together Disney!
It seems as there is no (so far) evidence of a Disney+ hack.
What I got out of it is lots of account credentials stolen from other previously hacked websites and services that now work to log in to Disney+ due to people using the same username and password across different websites and services.
This is the best part about the "We recorded you on your webcam" scam emails. I know what past passwords and emails have been breached completely.
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I was hoping I can use my DisneyAnywhere account but that doesn't look like it works.
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@Kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Disney's system is definitely broken.
they claim that one account accesses all Disney stuff - but that clearly is not true.
I just tried to log into disney.com and shopdisney.com and my disneyplus.com account didn't work there - in fact it sent me a password reset email because possible compromise.
Get your shit together Disney!
It seems as there is no (so far) evidence of a Disney+ hack.
What I got out of it is lots of account credentials stolen from other previously hacked websites and services that now work to log in to Disney+ due to people using the same username and password across different websites and services.
This is the best part about the "We recorded you on your webcam" scam emails. I know what past passwords and emails have been breached completely.
Because I get our catchall address, I get all kinds of peoples' passwords, lol.
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Password data for ~2.2 million users of currency and gaming sites dumped online
Researcher confirms data belongs to users of Gatehub and EpicBot services.
Password data and other personal information belonging to as many as 2.2 million users of two websites—one a cryptocurrency wallet service and the other a gaming bot provider—have been posted online, according to Troy Hunt, the security researcher behind the Have I Been Pwned breach notification service. One haul includes personal information for as many as 1.4 million accounts from the GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service. The other contains data for about 800,000 accounts on RuneScape bot provider EpicBot. The databases include registered email addresses and passwords that were cryptographically hashed with bcrypt, a function that's among the hardest to crack. -
The most useful gadgets to have in your bag while traveling
Here are some stellar gadgets that will make your future trips better.
Traveling can be a fun, illuminating experience, but packing for your travels is often stressful. Everything you choose to bring with you on your excursions must have a purpose, because unnecessary items do not belong in anyone's cramped suitcase. Whether you're traveling for business or pleasure, it can be difficult to decide which pieces of tech deserve to come with you and which you only think would be useful. -
Deepin Linux may ship with an AI Voice Assistant:
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Deepin Linux may ship with an AI Voice Assistant:
I read this yesterday on my phone, it seems like a really great addon feature. Not that I need an AI assistant, but I know people who use these regularly.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Deepin Linux may ship with an AI Voice Assistant:
I read this yesterday on my phone, it seems like a really great addon feature. Not that I need an AI assistant, but I know people who use these regularly.
Really? for more than just weather reports and stupid human tricks, like - alexa let's play Jeopardy....
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Deepin Linux may ship with an AI Voice Assistant:
I read this yesterday on my phone, it seems like a really great addon feature. Not that I need an AI assistant, but I know people who use these regularly.
Really? for more than just weather reports and stupid human tricks, like - alexa let's play Jeopardy....
Blind and people with vision issues need additional technologies, so yes really.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Deepin Linux may ship with an AI Voice Assistant:
I read this yesterday on my phone, it seems like a really great addon feature. Not that I need an AI assistant, but I know people who use these regularly.
Really? for more than just weather reports and stupid human tricks, like - alexa let's play Jeopardy....
Blind and people with vision issues need additional technologies, so yes really.
OK sure, but that's what .5% or less of the population?
I've had an Alexa since basically day one... I use it for timers, weather reports and some very occasional music (my wife on the otherhand, music nearly daily)... but that's it.
I don't think talking to our computers will ever really be a mainstream thing - people don't like telling the world around them (in general - yes there are those assholes on the subway who use speakerphone, etc in public) to know what they are doing.
