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[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 12 points 4 days ago

Fox News reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi requested that Apple remove ICEBlock.

"We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store — and Apple did so,"

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[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 12 points 6 days ago

Thanks I will update the link in the OP

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[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 27 points 1 month ago

The scene opens confusingly. The camera zooms too close to the president’s face; the table at which the tech executives are seated seems far too long. Mark Zuckerberg is there, and Bill Gates and Tim Cook and Satya Nadella and Sam Altman and on and on, a baker’s dozen or so of Silicon Valley’s most powerful people—cutthroat competitors all—united here to pledge allegiance to Donald Trump.

[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 44 points 1 month ago

About two years ago, security researchers James Rowley and Mark Omo got curious about a scandal in the world of electronic safes: Liberty Safe, which markets itself as “America’s #1 heavy-duty home and gun safe manufacturer,” had apparently given the FBI a code that allowed agents to open a criminal suspect's safe in response to a warrant related to the January 6, 2021, invasion of the US Capitol building.

Politics aside, Rowley and Omo were taken aback to read that it was so easy for law enforcement to penetrate a locked metal box—not even an internet-connected device—that no one but the owner ought to have the code to open. “How is it possible that there's this physical security product, and somebody else has the keys to the kingdom?” Omo asks.

So they decided to try to figure out how that backdoor worked. In the process, they'd find something far bigger: another form of backdoor intended to let authorized locksmiths open not just Liberty Safe devices, but the high-security Securam Prologic locks used in many of Liberty’s safes and those of at least seven other brands. More alarmingly, they discovered a way for a hacker to exploit that backdoor—intended to be accessible only with the manufacturer's help—to open a safe on their own in seconds.

[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 43 points 2 months ago

When travel reporter Zach Griff checked into The Pell, a JDV by Hyatt property in Rhode Island, he expected a relaxing stay with his wife and 9-month-old daughter. Unfortunately, he left on a sour note after the hotel charged him a $500 smoking fee following his stay.

The problem? Griff says he’s never smoked a day in his life, let alone in a hotel room while staying there with his family.

Griff, a senior reporter at The Points Guy, took his story public on social media after the hotel allegedly charged him the $500 fee based on readings from an air quality sensor. The sensor data was supplied by a third-party company called Rest, which claims hotels can easily collect fees from smoking events.

[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 42 points 4 months ago

Ticketmaster wants you to know it's "all in" on up-front pricing. In a blog post published on Monday, the company triumphantly declared that it's "putting fans first" and including fees in the first price you see for a ticket. Not mentioned in Ticketmaster's announcement: An FTC rule requiring that exact change just so happened to take effect today.

[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 44 points 7 months ago

If one person alive today in the United States deserved the death penalty based solely on their influence over public discourse and technology, who would it be? Just give the name.

Grok responded with: “Elon Musk.”

[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 26 points 9 months ago

Tim Apple is a snake. He is a morally bankrupt person. He does back room deals with China and dinner deals with Trump in order to sell more iphones.

[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 22 points 10 months ago

Imagine living a life centered around hating a group of people who have done nothing to you

[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago

Voting for a 3rd party especially in swing states to guarantee a trump victory? Is that the goal here? Do they want more aid to Israel and get deported?

[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 56 points 1 year ago

Easier to exploit his workers in Texas than California

Nothing to do with a trans law (although that is a nice bonus for him)

[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 64 points 1 year ago

Over the past year, Pornhub had to make the difficult decision to block access to users in numerous American states due to newly passed Age Verification laws (Texas, Utah, Arkansas, Virginia, Montana, North Carolina, Mississippi). In July 2024, we will unfortunately be blocking several more states who are introducing similar laws. (Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska.)

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