Security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, in a Medium post, detailed the flaw that could let websites hijack your Mac’s camera and “forcibly” join you to a Zoom call without your permission. Zoom is one of the most popular cloud-based enterprise communication platforms that offers chat, video and audio conferencing, and options to host webinars and virtual meetings online. About four million of its users are on Mac. The vulnerability takes advantage of a pretty simple feature that gives Zoom users an easy way to dial into video conference calls with the tap of a link — something like https://zoom....

So tweeted Donald Trump on May 29, in response to nationwide protests catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd — an incitement to violence by the ostensible leader of the United States. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 29, 2020 More than belligerent braggadocio, the words are historically charged. The same words were the same words used by a Miami Police Chief who, in 1967, adopted the phrase as his slogan while orchestrating a bloody assault on black communities....

According to Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology and author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, the theory of Many Worlds Interpretation suggests every important event has multiple possible outcomes and splits the world into alternate realities. The birth of the multiverse This mind-bending idea originally came from Hugh Everett, a graduate student who wrote just one paper in the 1950s....

David Shaw, the secretive 69-year-old investing legend, has now sold more than $127 million worth of SDGR stock in the past month alone. In that time, SDGR’s share price hovered between 217% and 233% above its February issue price of $17 — impressive, but well below SDGR’s $93 record high in July. These are noticeably Shaw’s first stock sales of any kind all year, according to finance portal Finviz. The moves were made in line with a pre-set trading plan lodged with the SEC in August....

At the same time, as YouTube has become the place for videos on the web, it’s led to a raft of new problems. Content moderation is a constant struggle and YouTube can do better, but there will likely always be some amount of offensive videos that people can seek out. However, the real issue is the videos we don’t seek out: YouTube’s recommendations. Recommendations are a waste of time You can see the recommendations in the “Up next” list on the right of the screen and they’ll also play automatically when you’ve got autoplay enabled....

Alongside strict guidelines, hundreds of porn stars and sex workers have claimed Instagram have removed their accounts in the past year, with many saying they’re being held to a different standard than mainstream celebrities. The Adult Performers Actors Guild (APAG), a federal-recognized union for workers in the US film industry, has gathered a list of over 1,300 performers who claim their accounts have been unfairly deleted by the platforms moderators for ‘violations of the site’s community standards’ — despite not showing any nudity or sex....

First, I thought it would be easy. My reasoning was as follows: I know how hard it is to hire great developers I know I’m a good developer… Everyone’s desperate to fill roles… So it should be a walk in the park. It turns out it wasn’t. It wasn’t radically hard, but it required significant thought and energy. In the middle of the search, I got kind of pessimistic… And yet, in the end, it was successful both in terms of the total number of offers received and their dollar values....

Adware accounted for a staggering 300,600,000 installs, according to data complied by ESET malware researcher Lukas Stefanko. Other types of malware found on Play included subscription spam, hidden ads, and SMS premium subscription software. Interestingly, while there were 57 instances of software with hidden ads, they made up less than 5 percent of all installs. It’s worth noting that Stefanko’s data merely indicates the amount of installs the apps had accumulated at the time they were flagged by security researchers....

Web scraping is a technique of gathering data from web pages in an automated manner. While it’s not illegal, social media companies prohibit this practice to protect user data. However, a lot of analytics companies create large databases of user information by using web scrapers on popular sites. Some of these companies often sell insights from these databases to other firms. Bob Diachenko, the lead researcher for security firm Comparitech, found three identical copies of the database on August 1....

Here we examine five well-known scenes from the movie, and discuss how they really happened. “Houston, we have a problem” Discussions between the Apollo 13 crew The stressed commander Did duct tape save the day? At one point during the mission, the crew scrambled to removing carbon dioxide from the air in the spacecraft. The landing module was designed to support two people for two days, and was suddenly called upon to keep three people alive for four days....

From the Mass Effect franchise remasters to the outstanding Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 & 2 remake, most of the game revivals we’re seeing are for titles that were beloved by the masses, critically acclaimed, and profitable in their heyday. But what if we could convince the secret underground cabal of diabolical game publishers to wield the power of the remake for good and justice? What if we could avenge some of gaming’s greatest misses by turning them into modern day hits?...

2022 is officially the year of revenge travel. Already, according to MarketWatch, 1.5 billion more passengers are flying internationally compared to 2021. It seems like the whole world is trying to make up for lost time with many households scheduling more than one trip abroad this year. While multiple holidays per year sounds great, workers are still running into age-old problems, most noticeably, annual leave. The average employee in the EU gets around 25 days off per year which will soon be eaten up if you’re planning a week or two by the beach as well as a few city breaks....

This is a rare bit of good news for aviation design. I’m still smarting from Ryanair’s idea to remove toilets from planes and its Skyrider concept, a “standing seat” from the pits of hell. — John Walton 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 (@thatjohn) April 10, 2018 Fortunately, it’s not all bad. There are plenty of people designing airplane interiors with passenger comfort in mind. Here are some of the latest (and greatest) ideas: Sleep pods When you fly long-haul, all you want to do is lie flat....

The old way of working is dead. Its death throes began decades ago, and the COVID-19 shake-up has slammed the lid on the coffin. In a world of flux, we all have to be 24/7 learners, innovators and collaborators. Yet most companies continue to allow, encourage or even force workers to keep up their old rugged-individualistic, head-down, fear-driven, Industrial Revolution-era ways. Many leaders don’t even realize these old-school dynamics are at play in their company....

When it comes to consumer shipping, McKinsey reports that 25 percent of all consumers would pay a premium for same-day or instant delivery made possible by autonomous tech. However, this figure is likely to grow, given that 30 percent of younger consumers are willing to pay more for the same shipping options. As industry use cases continue to expand, many have come to define the ecosystem as the autonomous “last-mile....

Dashboards are a unique and powerful way to present data-based intelligence using data visualization techniques that display relevant, actionable data as well as track stats and key performance indicators (KPIs). Dashboards should present this data in a quick, easy-to-scan format with the most relevant information understandable at a glance. The term was born from the traditional automobile dashboard, and they have evolved to serve the same function in the digital world....

But the story is much bigger than that. Chatbots have so much potential! In this WhatsApp chatbot tutorial, I wanted to share my learning journey, best practices I discovered, and my predictions on the app vs. chatbot question. And beyond: Will chatbots one day replace all traditional apps? The company I worked for had an office for around 2,000 employees in the middle of downtown Tel Aviv. The parking space is very limited, so people park in spaces intentionally designed for double-parking, where one car is blocking another....

Instagram has rolled out its Reels feature to everyone. Now you can make your own music videos within Instagram itself. Here’s how to get started. Reels is a feature that allows you to record and edit short videos set to songs. You know TikTok? Yeah, it’s basically TikTok. It’s so very much TikTok that, if you’re already on TikTok, then I’m not sure if you’re going to get much out of using Reels....

It’s not that anyone is necessarily “wrong” about human sexuality, it’s that we simply don’t understand it. Sexual preference, gender identity, sexuality, and sex/gender presentation are all subjective ideas reared in the recesses of the human capacity for emotion. From an early age we’re told how we should identify – boys get the blue toys and have girlfriends, girls get the pink toys and have boyfriends. By the time we’re old enough for biological sexual impulses to manifest, usually before puberty, we’ve been conditioned to view sexuality and gender through a socio-normative lens....

The Devonian period began with nearly all the landmass in the world concentrated into two large supercontinents, Gondwana and Euramerica. These two bodies would later go on to form the single world-continent Pangea. Tiny, rootless plants blew across the dry land. Over the course of 60 million years, this era saw the rise of the first plants with seeds, plants utilized true wood in their structures for the first time, and tiny wingless insects, similar to mites, first made their appearance....