This is true and also victim blaming. People are allowed to be idiots with their data, and still companies who prey on those people and their data are not allowed to build faulty systems that enable attackers to steal the data.

The 6.9M user number appears to be a function of internal data sharing within the 23andme product. So 14k users had bad passwords, and that allowed attackers to access data of a much larger population of users. Think of it like accessing 14k Facebook accounts and moving laterally to download photos of all the photos…

Yeah but if you combine this digital output from a turntable with gold plated, nitrogen infused speaker cables, it’ll be sound even better!

Google does not say it is way, way better. They are saying it’s slightly better across many categories. And they are saying that the version that is better is not available to the public and may not be until sometime next year. So grain of salt required, given Google’s past, overblown claims on the performance of the…

This is good for bitcoin.

They weren’t a bank - it’s the wrong analogy. They were a brokerage house (an exchange), and the rules are very different. Banks are required to hold minimum capital levels, their investments are subject to regulatory oversight, and the rules for disclosure are higher. If FTX wanted to be a bank, their behavior would…

Gravity doesn’t diminish significantly even much higher away from Earth. If the ISS were floating above the earth, instead of orbiting, it would experience plenty of gravity for a toilet to function (approx 85-90% of gravity at the surface). The only reason ISS astronauts seem to experience “zero gravity” is due to…

This sounds like a balloon trip, so there will be no “hyperbolic flight trajectory” so no zero-g during the flight. That would mean this toilet can rely on gravity to function..

Stoke is more than a little credible, with their recent demos and their founders’ experience/resumes.

I’d love to know if basic word processing and web email is viable on the e-ink display. I’d imagine it’s fine - similar to the refresh on a kindle, but with a physical keyboard. I’d guess it’s when you have to use a mouse, that the refresh becomes a pain. But for long plane flights or other situations where you don’t…

“very little else will change” — how many entrepreneurs have said this after selling their companies and becoming millionaires. For one thing, you just became a millionaire, so that’s a pretty big change right there.

Can I just get the half sized phone with the exterior screen?

I hold the phone in my right hand and I am left handed. This is a terrible design decision!

That is good advice: it’s easy to point all fans in or out and either is a mistake. Also being thoughtful about the pathway of airflow through the case is helpful: ejecting air through the bottom of the case can seem counter-intuitive (hot air rises) but it can reduce how much dust enters the case.. Having air enter…

Southwest is fairly reasonable about flying with pets. Not as good as United, but definitely not a “3/10.” They allow pets, but you have to call a rep to buy a pet ticket (you can’t buy it online, like you can on United). Otherwise, they are the same.

Your article, in the first para, says “Democrats...say they will look to scientists, not President Donald Trump, to ensure that if one becomes available it is both safe and effective.”

Probably easier to break a side window. But if the baby is in the back seat, maybe they were trying to break the window furthest from the baby? That said, why hand the baby out the window than simply unlock the car and exit through a door? Some mysterious stuff here - but probably mostly panic and related poor…

Most of Paramount+ content is “normative tv” at its worst. Star Trek is the primary value proposition for anyone who reads io9. Even worse, the Paramount+ UX/UI is terrible, at least on Fire sticks. It’s astonishing how bad the UX has been for this long since launch. They keep introducing new defects, which are design…

“The study showed that patients who hadn’t responded to other treatments experienced noticeably [fewer] days without migraine while on atogepant than those given a placebo.”

I’ve been thinking that GPT4 is going to be able to solve many captchas, given the capabilities demo’ed yesterday. And that may be a better test for capabilities of an ai engine than the Turing test.. And also super scary, as we’ve been living in a relatively calm period where online we can pretty reliably tell a…