Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-01

Turkish coffee and a flight to Aswan where we meet the Sun Boat IV. Sarkozy and Blair are in town, snarling the traffic. #
Happy 2008 to my friends in the US. It’s been a great year so far here in GMT +2! #

An Ohio University senior who worked a part-time job at a local Sherwin-Williams store was fired after the company discovered his popular paint-mixing TikTok channel @tonesterpaints, which currently has over 1.2 million followers. Tony Piloseno said that for months he'd been pointing to his viral account as an example of what Sherwin-Williams could do on […]

Walmart-exclusive router and others sold on Amazon & eBay contain hidden backdoors to control devices | CyberNews 23 November 2020

In a collaboration between CyberNews Sr. Information Security Researcher Mantas Sasnauskas and researchers James Clee and Roni Carta, suspicious backdoors have been discovered in a Chinese-made Jetstream router, sold exclusively at Walmart as their new line of “affordable” wifi routers. This backdoor would allow an attacker the ability to remotely control not only the routers, […]

Undersheriff, Apple security chief, businessman indicted in bribery schemes | News | Palo Alto Online | 23 November 2020

A grand jury issued two indictments on Thursday, Nov. 19, against Undersheriff Rick Sung, 48, and Capt. James Jensen, 43, who are accused of requesting bribes for concealed firearms licenses, also known as CCW licenses. Insurance broker Harpreet Chadha, 49, and Apple's Chief Security Officer Thomas Moyer, 50, are accused of offering bribes to receive […]

Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators | TechCrunch 23 November 2020

To encourage users to publish to Spotlight, the company will distribute more than US$1 million every day to Snapchat users (16 and up) who create the top Snaps on Spotlight. This will continue through the end of 2020. The earnings will be determined by Snapchat’s proprietary algorithm that rewards users based on the total number […]

Booting from a vinyl record – BOGIN, JR. 22 November 2020

So this nutty little experiment connects a PC, or an IBM PC to be exact, directly onto a record player through an amplifier. There is a small ROM boot loader that operates the built-in “cassette interface” of the PC (that was hardly ever used), invoked by the BIOS if all the other boot options fail, […]

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