8chan, the online message board that brought you some of the nastiest shit on the internet ( and Gamergate! ) has had its domain seized by its Bahamas-based registrar. According to the takedown notice, “child abuse” content on the site is to blame. Guess the internet’s trolls will have to find a different bridge to hide under. [ Ars Technica ] Read more…
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8chan, the online message board that brought you some of the nastiest shit on the internet (and Game
An anonymous reader writes Last month, Google took the bold steps to release the details of a security vulnerability ahead of Microsoft. Microsoft responded and said that there was a patch in works which was set to be released two days after Google went live with the details. Microsoft accuses Google for refusing to wait an extra 48 hours so that the patch would have been released along with the details of the exploit. Now, let’s see what is happening on the Google side of software development. Recently, an exploit has been uncovered in the WebView component of Android 4.3 — estimated to cover roughly 60% of Android install base — and Google is saying that they will not patch the flaw. Google’s only reasoning seems to be that they are not fixing vulnerabilities in 4.3 (introduced in June 2012) anymore, as they have moved focus to newer releases. It would appear that over 930 million Android phones in use are out of official Google security patch support. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won’t Patch Android Flaw
After a marathon weekend installation, the Golden Gate Bridge has finally gotten the $3o million movable median barrier system that it so desperately needs. These are the oversized mechanical zipper pulls that will be in charge of changing lanes (quite literally) twice a day to keep traffic flowing smoothly. Read more…
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The Golden Gate Bridge Gets the Massive Median Mover It Needed
A cleric in Saudi Arabia has forbidden the building of snowmen : “It is imitating the infidels, it promotes lustiness and eroticism.”
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Snowmen are anti-Islamic, promote lust
We went to Oamaru, New Zealand to see the blue penguins (and they were super cute), but it was the town’s dedication to Steampunk that really got us fired up. Read the rest
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A tour through New Zealand’s amazing steampunk town
The Chevy Volt offered GM a chance to show it was capable of quickly producing a car that was radically different than any car they’d made before. It wasn’t a hit. With low EV-only range and a high price, what exactly was the reason to buy it? The 2016 Chevy Volt seems like a better deal. Read more…
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The 2016 Chevy Volt Goes 50 Miles On A Charge
In 1890, a group of eight large New York City bakeries combined to form the New York Biscuit Company and built a giant six-story factory in West Chelsea. Eight years later, they merged with their competitor, Chicago’s American Biscuit and Manufacturing to form an even larger conglomerate – the National Biscuit Company, but the factory and headquarters remained in Chelsea. In 1901, the National Biscuit Company put their abbreviated company name on a box of wafers for the first time – Nabisco. Soon, Nabisco became the company’s official name. Read more…
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How the Oreo Was Invented
When customs officers at Futian Port in China saw a males passenger with “weird walking posture, joint stiffness, muscle tension …” they got suspicious. Turns out, he was attempting to smuggle 94 iPhones into the country—all of them strapped to his body. Read more…
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How Not to Smuggle 94 iPhones Through Chinese Customs
Chromebooks are pretty reliable, but problems do happen. Create a restore disk with the Chromebook Recovery Utility, so you can reinstall your operating system if anything ever goes wrong. Read more…
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Chromebook Recovery Utility Makes Recovery Media For Your Chromebook
Welcome to Reading List , a breakdown of some wonderfully constructed words, phrases, and sentences you should really be reading this week. Before you get too excited, take a second to take a peek over all our exhaustive (seriously I’m still recovering) coverage of CES 2015 . But when you get a gadget overload, take a look at some of these great reads from around the web. Read more…
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Why California’s High-Speed Rail Matters