As seen with the rise of automatic litter boxes and pet tracking, technology has made it so we can closely monitor our pets without having to do a lot of manual labor. Automatic dry-food dispensers were invented nearly a century ago and now come in every type, using gravity or stoppers to regulate food. Most… Continue reading These 5 Automatic Cat Feeders Were the Best We Tested
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Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years
Other discussions include: Reddit, Stack Overflow (Spanish), forobeta (Spanish), brainycp (Russian), natnetwork (Indonesian), Proxmox (Deutsch), Camel2243 (Chinese), svrforum (Korean), exabytes, virtualmin, serverfault and many others. After exploiting a vulnerability or misconfiguration, the exploit code downloads the main payload from a server, which, in most cases, has been hacked by the attacker and converted into a… Continue reading Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for Years
I Own a Chevy Bolt, and Superchargers Are a Total Game Changer
It should not be so exciting to eat a breakfast quesadilla in your car. But this quesadilla was from Wawa, this Wawa hosted a Tesla Supercharger, and this car was the 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, hooked up to that Supercharger through an NACS/CCS adapter. More than a year after GM’s switch to NACS was announced,… Continue reading I Own a Chevy Bolt, and Superchargers Are a Total Game Changer
Waymo’s New Agreement With Hyundai Raises Questions About China
Soon you could see Waymo self-driving tech in Hyundai cars. The autonomous driving tech developer Waymo said this week that it would partner with the Korean automaker Hyundai to equip a fleet of its electric vehicles with self-driving technology. The vehicles, modified Ioniq 5s, will hit the road as part of Waymo’s self-driving ride-hail service… Continue reading Waymo’s New Agreement With Hyundai Raises Questions About China
She Asked TikTok If Her House Was Haunted. Then the Cops Came
This all started like four or five days ago. How many followers have you gathered in that amount of time? I went from, let’s see, I haven’t honestly been on TikTok in hours. I went from 6,000 to 576,000, so I’ve gained 570,000 followers. [Editor’s note: As of this writing, she now has 1.6 million… Continue reading She Asked TikTok If Her House Was Haunted. Then the Cops Came
Meta Can’t Use Sexual Orientation to Target Ads in the EU, Court Rules
Europe’s most famous privacy activist, Max Schrems, landed another blow against Meta today after the EU’s top court ruled the tech giant cannot exploit users’ public statements about their sexual orientation for online advertising. Since 2014, Schrems has complained of seeing advertising on Meta platforms targeting his sexual orientation. Schrems claims, based on data he… Continue reading Meta Can’t Use Sexual Orientation to Target Ads in the EU, Court Rules
The Black List Upended the Film Industry. The Book World Is Next
Fifty-four Academy Awards and 267 nominations. That’s the sort of concrete impact the Black List has had since launching in 2005 as Hollywood insiders’ go-to index of emerging screenwriters. The Social Network, Edge of Tomorrow, Selma, Don’t Worry Darling—each one started as a submission on the Black List. “I knew there were great writers and… Continue reading The Black List Upended the Film Industry. The Book World Is Next
Inside the Anti-Vax Facebook Group Pushing a Bogus Cure for Autism
Czelazewicz is just one of many affiliates who sell Pure Body Extra online, including Larry Cook, one of the best known US anti-vax influencers. Cook and his Stop Mandatory Vaccination group was kicked off Facebook in 2020, but only after it had amassed a following of around 200,000. Today, Cook sells Pure Body Extra as… Continue reading Inside the Anti-Vax Facebook Group Pushing a Bogus Cure for Autism
Trump Supporters Are Pushing a Clip of a Voting Machine Being Hacked. It’s Not What It Seems
Behizy’s post caught the attention of some big names in the world of voting machine conspiracies. Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who was named in a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting on account of lies he spread about their machines following the 2020 election, amplified Behizy’s post. Trump’s former national security adviser and election conspiracist Michael… Continue reading Trump Supporters Are Pushing a Clip of a Voting Machine Being Hacked. It’s Not What It Seems
VP Debate Night: Vance Sanitized Trumpism, Walz Called Himself a Knucklehead
Leah Feiger: I think it adds to it. It’s this, it’s stolen valor. Even when you’re actually parsing through the specifics of it, is it that terrible? Tim Marchman: I don’t think he came off great. I don’t think it’s … Leah Feiger: Yeah, he came off not well in the fact that he called… Continue reading VP Debate Night: Vance Sanitized Trumpism, Walz Called Himself a Knucklehead