Ready to feel anger and resentment towards your younger self for not taking better care of your Hot Wheels toys? Bruce Pascal has been collecting them since he was seven years old, and now that he’s all grown up his collection, with over 3, 000 tiny cars in it , is worth well north of a million dollars. Read more…
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This Guy’s Hot Wheels Collection Is Worth Over $1 Million
NSO Group, a company that sells hacking services to governments so they can spy on journalists and dissidents, exploited gaping security holes in iPhone software, according to a report byLookout Security and Citizen Lab. But don’t worry: Apple just pushed a fix. Read more…
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Israeli Cyber Weapon Dealers Figured Out How to Hack Every iPhone
countach44 writes that (in the words of the below-linked article) “Chicagoans are costing the city tens of millions of dollars — through good behavior.” The City of Chicago recently installed speed cameras near parks and schools as part of the “Children’s Safety Zone Program, ” claiming a desire to decrease traffic-related incidents in those area. The city originally budgeted (with the help of the company providing the system) to have $90M worth of income from the cameras — of which only $40M is now expected. Furthermore, the city has not presented data on whether or not those areas have become safer. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected
None of us like to think about our death or the death of a loved one, but death is one thing it’s important to prepare for. When it comes, you don’t want to be stuck trying to get into a loved one’s Gmail or Facebook account to shut things down. This graphic shows you what you’re in for, and what you—or your loved ones—should have ready. Read more…
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This Graphic Shows What Happens to Your Social Accounts When You Die
alancronin writes with this excerpt from a PC World article: “Users of Android, Chrome OS, Linux, and iOS devices may not realize it, but FreeType open source software is used to render fonts on more than a billion such devices. Not only that, but the FreeType project this week got a significant update from none other than Adobe and Google. Specifically, Google and Adobe on Wednesday released into beta the Adobe CFF engine, an advanced Compact Font Format (CFF) rasterizer that ‘paves the way for FreeType-based platforms to provide users with richer and more beautiful reading experiences,’ as Google put it in an online announcement on the Google Open Source Blog. The new rasterizer is now included in FreeType version 2.4.12. Though it’s currently off by default, the technology is ‘vastly superior’ to the old CFF engine and will replace it in the next FreeType release, the project says.” The article features examples of how the new engine improves font rendering; for more explanation of the CFF, see this blog post from Adobe. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Google and Adobe Contribute Open Source Rasterizer to FreeType