Twitter says it has fixed a security vulnerability that allowed threat actors to compile information of 5.4 million Twitter accounts, which were listed for sale on a known cybercrime forum. The vulnerability allowed anyone to enter a phone number or an email address of a known user and learn if it was tied to an…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Award-winning dystopian document thriller game “Papers, Please” is now available on smartphones nine years after its initial release. You can download the game on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store for $4.99 starting today. Papers, Please takes place in the fictional communist state of Arstotzka where you play as a border control agent who…
Sahil Mansuri Contributor Share on Twitter Sahil Mansuri is the CEO of Bravado. My first month with a sales quota was September 2008 — not the best month for a 21-year-old to start his career by cold calling strangers and convincing them to buy a $10,000 piece of software. The economy was in free fall,…
Back in 2019, Google proudly announced that they had achieved what quantum computing researchers had sought for years: proof that the esoteric technique could outperform traditional ones. But this demonstration of “quantum supremacy” is being challenged by researchers claiming to have pulled ahead of Google on a relatively normal supercomputer. To be clear, no one…
Would you give Amazon the layout to your home? Well, you soon may not have a choice if you’re a Roomba customer. In a statement released on Friday, the e-commerce giant announced it was acquiring iRobot, the company best known as the maker of the popular vacuuming robot, Roomba. Amazon will purchase the consumer robot…
Cybersecurity experts have warned of an elaborate scam targeting customers of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Researchers from security firm PIXM recently discovered an email campaign whereby attackers masquerade as Coinbase to trick people into handing over their account credentials. In the email, the user is warned that their account needs attention due to an “urgent matter”….
A now hiring sign at McDonald’s restaurant in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021 offering pay from $15 an hour for new employees. Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Average hourly earnings rose 15 cents from June to July, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That means…
A man watches a news broadcast showing Chinese military operations near Taiwan, in Beijing on August 3, 2022. Thomas Peter/Reuters In response to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China has applied more political, military, and economic coercion to punish Taipei. That points to Beijing’s desire to raise the costs Taiwan faces for attempting to expand…
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump AP Photo Democrats are poised to pass their inflation bill, but they won’t be closing the carried interest loophole. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona ultimately opposed axing the tax provision, which benefits wealthy investors. Calls to close the loophole have come from Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden….
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