Long time reader BrianFagioli writes: if you love Linux Mint and use it regularly, I have very good news — version 18.1 ‘Serena’ is finally here. There are two desktop environments from which to choose — Cinnamon and Mate. Regardless of which version you choose, please know that it is based on Ubuntu 16.04, which offers long-term support (LTS). In other words, Linux Mint 18.1 will be supported until 2021. Linux Mint 18.1 comes with the updated Cinnamon 3.2 which looks to be wonderful. The Mint team touts a new screensaver/ login screen in the desktop environment, and yeah, it looks good. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Wrap Gifts Without Any Tape or Ribbon Using This Japanese Method
There’s something a little inelegant about covering your gifts with odd bits of tape. It’s quite literally the rough duct tape solution to wrapping presents. If you don’t have any tape or ribbon want to avoid a tacky aesthetic, this Japanese method can keep your presents wrapped sans sticky tape. Read more…
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Wrap Gifts Without Any Tape or Ribbon Using This Japanese Method
David Tennant Is Your New Scrooge McDuck In DuckTales
We’ve known that Disney is doing a brand new DuckTales for a while, but now we’re starting to get some solid details about who’ll be providing the voices of our feathered friends… and it turns out a former Time Lord and Marvel villain is lending his brogue to Scrooge McDuck himself. Read more…
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David Tennant Is Your New Scrooge McDuck In DuckTales
A $300 Device Can Steal Mac FileVault2 Passwords
An anonymous reader writes: Swedish hardware hacker Ulf Frisk has created a device that can extract Mac FileVault2 (Apple’s disk encryption utility) passwords from a device’s memory before macOS boots and anti-DMA protections kick in. The extracted passwords are in cleartext, and they also double as the macOS logon passwords. The attack requires physical access, but it takes less than 30 seconds to carry out. A special device is needed, which runs custom software (available on GitHub), and uses hardware parts that cost around $300. Apple fixed the attack in macOS 10.12.2. The device is similar to what Samy Kamker created with Poison Tap. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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A $300 Device Can Steal Mac FileVault2 Passwords
That Story About a Boy Dying In Santa’s Arms Is Totally Fake
Did you see that story about a 5-year-old boy and his dying wish to see Santa Claus? Of course you did. The heartbreaking tale has been seen and heard by millions of people around the world . It went viral earlier this week when it was retold by virtually every major news outlet. The only problem? It’s almost certainly fake. Read more…
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That Story About a Boy Dying In Santa’s Arms Is Totally Fake
Alaska Airlines and Virgin America Are Merging, Here’s What It Means for You
Alaska Airlines and Virgin America are coming together to form the fifth largest U.S. carrier, and if you fly either airline often their merger means a few changes for you. Here’s what you can expect. Read more…
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Alaska Airlines and Virgin America Are Merging, Here’s What It Means for You
The Feds Want All New Cars To Talk To Each Other By 2023
The U.S. Department Of Transportation and automakers have been testing the concept of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication for years. Today the agency said it’s getting serious about having cars talk to each other for safety, and has proposed specific rules and methods that would force automakers to load vehicles with this tech on all new vehicles by 2023. Read more…
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I’m Not Sure Who Won This Octopus vs Eel vs Human Fight
Hot damn. A snorkeler in Hawaii stumbled on this underwater scrap between an octopus and a terrifying moray eel and it looks like it’s going to be a tangled fight to death. The moray eel looks like it has the clear advantage because, well, it’s a big ass bully with the octopus in its jaws but after a few whips around, the octopus grapples the eels with its tentacles and then unleashes an ink bomb in time to confuse the eel and escape. Phew. Read more…
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I’m Not Sure Who Won This Octopus vs Eel vs Human Fight
Recreating a 17th Century Painting in Photoshop Is Basically Magic
Using stock images and Johannes Vermeer’s 1664 painting The Concert as a base, photographer Erik Almas admirably recreated the lost masterpiece in Photoshop. Heck, it might be able to fool you into thinking it were the real thing… if you were standing and squinting from very far away. Still. It’s pretty neat to see Almas’ workflow and how creative he gets in trying to mimic the original. Read more…
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Recreating a 17th Century Painting in Photoshop Is Basically Magic
First Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Available
An anonymous reader writes: To protect Tor users from FBI hacking tools that include all sorts of Firefox zero-days, the Tor Project started working on a sandboxed version of the Tor Browser in September. Over the weekend, the Tor Project released the first alpha version of the sandboxed Tor Browser. “Currently, this version is in an early alpha stage, and only available for Linux, ” reports BleepingComputer. “There are also no binaries available, and users must compile it themselves from the source code, which they can grab from here.” The report notes: “Sandboxing is a security mechanism employed to separate running processes. In computer security, sandboxing an application means separating its process from the OS, so vulnerabilities in that app can’t be leveraged to extend access to the underlying operating system. This is because the sandboxed application works with its own separate portion of disk and memory that isn’t linked with the OS.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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First Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Available