Non-IT News Thread
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How hackers pulled off a $20 million bank heist
Efforts were enabled by sloppy and insecure network architecture in Mexico.
In January 2018 a group of hackers, now thought to be working for the North Korean state-sponsored group Lazarus, attempted to steal $110 million from the Mexican commercial bank Bancomext. That effort failed. But just a few months later, a smaller yet still elaborate series of attacks allowed hackers to siphon off 300 to 400 million pesos, or roughly $15 to $20 million from Mexican banks. Here's how they did it.
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Dutch shooting: Utrecht police arrest suspect after three killed
A man has been arrested following a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht which left three people dead, police say.
Five others were injured in the incident, and authorities say the attacker's motive remains unclear. Gokmen Tanis, a 37-year-old Turkish man, was detained several hours after the attack. It is not yet clear where he was arrested. The incident sparked a city-wide manhunt and the closure of schools.
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Third Brexit vote must be different - Speaker
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BBC News - Cyclone Idai: Mozambique president says 1,000 may have died
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'Marie Kondo' Is Not a Verb
Boy, we really know how to wreck a good thing. Japan sends us their charismatic organizational expert and what do we Americans do? We ruin her by turning her into a verb.
I like this author, wit in this.
Near the end is the best part.But you absolutely cannot “Marie Kondo your LinkedIn network in 4 steps.” No matter how many steps you take, LinkedIn will never spark joy. If anything, it sparks rage. Don’t put that pressure on Marie. She’s done enough.
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Call of Duty Mobile announced for iOS, Android, made by China’s Tencent
Pre-registration is now open at callofduty.com; monetization model not yet announced.
Activision has taken the wraps off its first major Call of Duty video game for smartphones. The title is simple enough: Call of Duty Mobile. The online, multiplayer-only game will arrive later this year, but neither Activision nor any of its Western CoD-focused studios will lead the game's development.
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The Disney-Fox merger is official at midnight...
https://nerdist.com/article/disney-fox-merger-officially-approved/
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How OpenXR could glue virtual reality’s fragmenting market together
This week’s provisional release could help unify cross-platform VR development.
Consumer-grade virtual reality (and, to a lesser extent, augmented reality) is only a few years old, but it’s already an extremely fragmented market. Wikipedia lists almost 30 distinct VR headsets released by dozens of hardware makers since 2015. Creating a game that works seamlessly with all of these headsets (and their various runtime environments) can be a headache even for the biggest studios.
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Thunderstorm with eye-popping 720GJ of energy
Measured muon flux indicates thunderstorm reached a potential of 1.4GV.
Nothing says "I love diving headfirst into a ditch" like your hair suddenly elevating to the tingly feel of electricity. Thunderstorms are amazing from inside a building, but they're scary if you're trapped outside. And, despite a good deal of observation, an element of mystery surrounds them. For instance, we know that lightning can produce free neutrons, antimatter, and gamma rays, but we don't have much idea of how that happens.
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Facebook: No one reported NZ shooting video during 17-minute livestream
Nearly 200 views during livestream, but no user reports until 12 minutes later.
Facebook says a livestream of last week's New Zealand mass shooting was viewed fewer than 200 times during its live broadcast and that nobody reported the video to Facebook while the livestream was ongoing.
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@mlnews as if we trust their information on that.
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Musk defense “borders on the ridiculous,” SEC tells court
Agency is asking judge to hold Elon Musk in contempt after a misleading tweet.
Musk has been battling the SEC since last August, when he tweeted that he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private. That turned out to be untrue, and it's illegal to publish inaccurate information that has the potential to move markets. Under the terms of a September deal, Musk paid a $20 million fine and gave up his role as the chairman of Tesla's board (Tesla paid an additional $20 million).
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BBC News - Woman in China nearly dies after injecting herself with fruit juice
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@scottalanmiller wtf??
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Facebook: No one reported NZ shooting video during 17-minute livestream
Nearly 200 views during livestream, but no user reports until 12 minutes later.
Facebook says a livestream of last week's New Zealand mass shooting was viewed fewer than 200 times during its live broadcast and that nobody reported the video to Facebook while the livestream was ongoing.
To busy in shock.. not really surprised.
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@scottalanmiller Should I even ask why she was doing this?
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller Should I even ask why she was doing this?
Nutritious high?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
BBC News - Woman in China nearly dies after injecting herself with fruit juice
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-47623816Where's the "That's now how this works" meme when needed?
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Don’t believe the hype: We may never know the identity of Jack the Ripper
Controversial new DNA forensics study is just the latest claim to ID infamous killer.
A new DNA analysis of stains on a silk shawl that may have belonged to one of Jack the Ripper's victims concluded that the killer was a Polish barber named Aaron Kosminski, according to a paper published last week in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. But other scientists are already calling into question the paper's bombshell conclusions—and they're not exactly mincing words.
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Hands on with Google Stadia: It works, but is that enough?
Playing Assassin's Creed on a Chromebook is neat but only part of the story.
Shortly after Google announced its upcoming Stadia streaming platform this morning at the Game Developers Conference, the company opened up a few kiosks showing off the technology in a corner of a Moscone Center West hallway. Unfortunately, these extremely limited demos didn't answer most of the burning questions that Google has still left unanswered about it much-hyped platform.
