« While the researchers can't conclusively identify the source, they were able to determine that it was produced by interactions between two individual devices. In other words, the signal is likely to just be a technological accident, and in this case, at least one of the components happened to be switched on and off in a way that lined up with when the telescope was pointed at Proxima Centauri »
« This is funny, unfortunate, and also, an example of a much larger problem: The internet is a collective hallucination that is fading away thanks to link rot »
« a Syniverse server failed on February 14, 2019, causing messages that were in the queue to go undelivered. For some reason, the server was reactivated 9 months later, causing those 168,149 months-old messages to be sent »
"My left shoe won't even reboot." writes another. One user offers a possible solution, saying, "You need to do a manual reset of both shoes per the instructions."
« Over the course of Miller's tenure, Time Warner took back control of the merged entity as AOL's revenue dwindled. The company's board didn't want to redouble its efforts to buy internet companies after AOL had distracted Time Warner from its core competencies […] »
« Now, the user can restrict the sending of the lat/long so as not to give away their position. BUT, that data is only filtered in the mobile app itself, not on the server. It’s just hidden in the mobile app interface if the privacy flag is set »
Facebook: "wooops, We stored millions of passwords in plain text"
IT: 🤦
People: 🤨
Google: "Hold my beer"
« Google said it discovered in April that the way it implemented password setting and recovery for its enterprise offering in 2005 was faulty and improperly stored a copy of the password in plaintext »
« The researcher "immediately notified Indian CERT team on the incident, however, database remained open and searchable until today, May 8th, when it got dropped by hackers known as ‘Unistellar’ group." »