Two days before Apple is expected to release iOS 9—including new adblocking capabilities in Safari—the company that makes Adblock Plus is jumping the gun . Eyeo just released the Adblock Browser for iPhone and iPad . It works a lot like every other browser except, you know, it blocks ads. Read more…
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Adblock Plus Now Works on iOS Devices
After months—if not years—of bellyaching over slow speeds and shaky stability , Google finally announced an array of improvements to Chrome that could improve the lives of millions. The company says the browser will now offer users “ a faster and more efficient web .” Well, Google certainly couldn’t make it slower or less efficient. Read more…
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Google Chrome Just Got a Lot Faster
It’s been just over two years since Gizmodo wondered publicly why McDonald’s didn’t serve breakfast all day . And that was already years after hungry citizens everywhere wondered why they could eat Egg McMuffins for dinner. Now, McDonald’s has heard our call: All day breakfast will be available across America on October 6 . Read more…
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McDonald’s Will Serve Breakfast All Day, Thanks to Kitchen Upgrades
If you use uTorrent for your torrenting needs, there’s a good chance your client is also mining Bitcoin without you even realizing it, and gobbling up your computer’s processing power. Read more…
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How to Make Sure Your Torrent Client Isn’t Secretly Mining Bitcoin
New details have emerged about exactly how Hillary Clinton secured the homebrew private email servers she used as Secretary of State. The punchline? Clinton didn’t encrypt her emails or use a certificate for her first three months running the State Department. Read more…
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Hillary Clinton Didn’t Encrypt Her Secretary of State Emails For Months
We’ve known for a long time that federal authorities have a lot of license plate readers at their disposal, some of which they surely use for nefarious purposes. However, new details have emerged that show exactly how nefarious those purposes are. Does secretly spying on millions of Americans and seizing property sound nefarious enough to care? Read more…
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Feds Are Spying on Millions of Cars With License Plate Readers
Meet Mama Lee. Mama Lee is 86-years-old, enjoys ballroom dancing, and has been a full-time resident of a cruise ship for the past ten years. It costs her about $164, 000 a year, but it really sounds like she’s loving her permanent vacation . Read more…
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An 86-year-old woman has been living on cruise ships for a decade
Somebody hacked the Lizard Squad’s super stupid DDoS-for-hire service last week, and guess what? The Lizard Squad sucks at cybersecurity. Not only did the hackers leave their so-called LizardStresser service vulnerable, the money-hungry kids left all their customers’ data in plain text and $11, 000 in bitcoin on the table. Read more…
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Lizard Squad Kept Its Hacker-for-Hire Customers’ Info in Plain Text
Last year, we learned about Bangkok’s New World Mall, among the most dystopian places on the planet. It’s a shopping mall in the middle of one of the world’s more tumultuous cities that was abandoned nearly 20 years ago. After a roof collapse, the mall flooded, and a population of fish thrived in newly formed ponds . Now, those fish are finally being set free . Read more…
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Thousands of Fish To Be Freed From Abandoned Mall Fish-Hell
Kepler just can’t stop discovering exoplanets. Nearly two years after scientists said it was crippled, the planet-hunting telescope recently identified eight new planets. But that’s not all. They’re all in the Goldilocks zone of their respective stars, and two of them are more Earth-like than anything astronomers have ever seen . Read more…
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Kepler Just Found the Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Ever Discovered