Leo’s Twitter Updates For The Week Of 2011-09-18

.@scobleizer +5 bitz for not showing up at TWiT today. http://twit.tv #
Looking for a nice hotel on the beach in San Diego. Got any reccomendations? #
Let's Just Be Friends – yeah I've heard that before.
: http://t.co/N9Dav4iE #
TWiT.tv got hacked this morning. We believe we've fixed the problem…
Here's the latest from our sysadmin:

"+Colin Weir notified … #
As promised: "Sarah with the elven ears" http://t.co/lo7zf0lb #ipadtodayfree #

PSA: Google Nest Cam outage takes down live video, history - 9to5Google 26 February 2020

Google Nest is facing an outage this afternoon that sees “camera connectivity impacted.” At the moment, “Nest Cam Live Video” and “Video History” are down, though all other smart home services are operational. Nest Cams went down around 12 p.m. PT with feeds continuously loading on the web and mobile apps. This affects the Nest […]

Google patches Chrome zero-day under active attacks | ZDNet 26 February 2020

Google has released today a Chrome update to address three security bugs, including a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild.

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Toy Industry Looks to YouTube Talent for Next Generation of Merchandise - WSJ 26 February 2020

Jazwares LLC, which makes toys and other consumer products based on licensed properties such as “Fortnite” and “Peppa Pig,” will release merchandise based on three YouTube properties in 2020: Blippi, a preschool education-and-entertainment character with more than 21 million subscribers on the video platform; toy-unboxing and reviews channel CKN Toys, which has 14.7 million subscribers; […]

Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain - VICE 26 February 2020

To determine the finite nature of melodies, Riehl and Rubin developed an algorithm that recorded every possible 8-note, 12-beat melody combo. This used the same basic tactic some hackers use to guess passwords: Churning through every possible combination of notes until none remained. Riehl says this algorithm works at a rate of 300,000 melodies per […]

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