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Written 4 decades ago and still as relevant as ever.
It's NASA, still doing super cool space stuff.
CVE-2022-2856 is a fix for "insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents," according to Google's advisory. Intents are typically a way to pass data from inside Chrome to another application, such as the share button on Chrome's address bar.
Apple has released a trio of operating system updates to patch security vulnerabilities that it says "may have been actively exploited." The macOS 12.5.1, iOS 15.6.1, and iPadOS 15.6.1 updates are available for download now and should be installed as soon as possible.
The federal government has announced that Anita Neville, longtime Liberal politician but retired for some time, has been appointed. At 80, she is older than the Lt. Governor she is replacing and is the first Jewish woman in Manitoba to hold the position.
A decade after all Zellers locations were shut down, The Hudson’s Bay Co (which owns its rights) will debut a new e-commerce website dedicated to the Zellers brand. They will also a Zellers sectionwithin select Hudson’s Bay department stores across Canada in early 2023.
The Google tag (gtag.js) is a single tag you can add to your website to use a variety of Google products and services. Instead of managing multiple tags for different Google product accounts, you can use the Google tag across your entire website and connect the tag to multiple destinations.
The vulnerability was first discovered by Patrick Wardle, founder of the Objective-See Foundation, a nonprofit Mac OS security group. Wardle detailed in a talk at Def Con last week how Zoom's installer asks for a user password when installing or uninstalling, but its auto-update function, enabled by default, doesn't need one. Wardle found that Zoom's updater is owned by and runs as the root user.
Discordo is a lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client. Heavily work-in-progress, expect breaking changes.
System.css is a CSS library for building interfaces that resemble Apple's System OS which ran from 1984-1991. Design-wise, not much really changed from System 1 to System 6; however this library is based on System 6 as it was the final monochrome version of MacOS.
Scientists in Switzerland have developed a battery made out of paper which will release its charge when splattered with water.
Meta Open Source releases an updated version of their static site generator designed to help build documentation websites via Markdown.
If using a Meta project isn't your thing, Myles Braithwaite provides a great list of other static-site generators for all manner of purposes.
Textbook publisher Pearson suggests blockchain tech could let it take a cut of secondary textbook sales, capturing a section of the book market that’s so far escaped it. As quoted by Bloomberg, Pearson CEO Andy Bird believes non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, could help publishers make money off textbook resales, although he stopped short of describing concrete plans.
Autodidacts has a "sophisticated" workflow for turning project ideas into reality. It’s so arcane it deserved its own branch of historiography, but they settled for an infographic...
EdgeDB, the graph-relational database, is back with the introduction of access policies, the GROUP statement, and a new admin UI.
The macOS Monterey 12.5 update can be downloaded on all eligible Macs using the Software Update section of System Preferences.
On September 1st, monthly Pro subscriptions will increase from $8 to $8.75 per user per month, and annual Pro subscriptions will increase from $6.67 to $7.25 per user per month. Also, free plans will be able to see last 90 days of messages, as opposed to previous 10K limit.
Facebook has started to use a different URL scheme for site links to combat URL stripping technologies that browsers such as Firefox or Brave use to improve privacy and prevent user tracking. Though according to the company, the change has nothing to do with URL stripping and user tracking, but as a countermeasure against scrapers.
The support of old hardware is the big selling point of Chrome OS Flex, as businesses don’t have to ditch existing hardware to get the latest modern operating system. More than 400 devices are certified to work, and installation is as easy as using a USB drive to install Chrome OS Flex.
The telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. These listed targets below represent the first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra the observatory has gathered, and the official beginning of Webb’s general science operations. They were selected by an international committee of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Twitter users who have been @mentioned in a conversation can now go to their Mentions tab and select the "Leave this conversation" option from any conversation they've been mentioned in, or select the three dots in the top corner of any tweet with a mention. Leaving a conversation will untag their username, stop all future mentions, and put a stop to notifications.
The 2022 Municipal Council and School Boards Election will take place on October 26, 2022. Winnipeggers who are a Canadian citizen, 18 years of age or older on Election Day and an actual resident or property owner in the City of Winnipeg for a period of at least six months will be eligible to vote. To vote for a school trustee, you will need to br an actual resident in the school division ward on Election Day.
TinyWow offers a huge selection of free, easy-to-use tools for PDF files, videos, images, and more. Convert word documents to PDF files, remove the background from an image, convert videos to GIF files, make memes, sharpen images, and so much more.
Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces. By Ahmad Shadeed.
An in-development native macOS application for your Slack experience. If you're not a fan of the official client, here is an option.
The password manager previously started supporting secure password sharing with links last year, and this feature is now being expanded to include documents and files that are stored in 1Password.
"By getting high-resolution scans of woods whenever I had them available, as well as making a clean, easy-to-read user interface with informative links, I sought to take full advantage of the online medium."
In March of this year, Ecma International accepted a proposal led by Mozilla for a new alternative license. On June 22nd, the first requests to adopt this license were granted to TC39 and applied to the following documents: ECMA-262 (ECMAScript, the official name for JavaScript) and ECMA-402 (the Internationalization API for ECMAScript).
An open source, free, cross-platform derivative of Mozilla Firefox, but modified to protect privacy and anonymity for the user.
Like Spotify, but for natural soundscapes.
HarperCollins have announced that a new Tolkien publication, The Fall of Númenor, will be published on 10th November 2022. Edited by well-known Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, the book collects together J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings of the Second Age.
Copilot, GitHub's AI code suggestion tool, is now available for everyone, the company announced on Tuesday. Anyone can use the pair programmer for $10 a month or $100 a year. It will be free for students and organizers of popular open source projects.
One of the most popular Canada Day celebrations in Winnipeg is getting a new name! "A New Day at The Forks" includes a reflective, inclusive and fun day for everyone to come together. There will be 4 pop-up stages with music, hands-on workshops, and lots to see and do.
A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model. Your role is to maximize economic potential by putting the right amount of money in circulation, to increase the GDP of your village: the number of apples it produces. Your only lever changes the central bank interest rate. Good luck!
eBay’s combining online and real-world auction experiences with its newly launched eBay Live platform, where people can chat and react to sellers through Livestream video and buy their products.
Sustainability in Website development: Notes for designers, developers, and clients. This article takes a look at what impact our websites and web applications have on the environment in terms of our carbon footprint. Most of us haven't really thought of this, but bearing energy usage in mind during development should lead to leaner streamlined web designs. Keep it simple if you don't want your web products to have a heavy carbon footprint.
"Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites."
Celsius hasn't provided details on the "extreme market conditions" that led the company to suspend withdrawals. Celsius claims it is working diligently to resume withdrawals, but users have good reason to worry about the company's financial health.
Under a deal with indie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, Funko acquired Mondo, which creates and sells vinyl records and soundtracks, posters, toys, apparel, books, games and other collectibles. About 30 Mondo employees are joining Funko.
The company is now testing the free version in Canada, where users are able to access Photoshop on the web through a free Adobe account. Adobe describes the service as “freemium” and eventually plans to gate off some features that will be exclusive to paying subscribers. Enough tools will be freely available to perform what Adobe considers to be Photoshop’s core functions.
The lawsuit first emerged in 2017 after three women filed a complaint accusing the company of underpaying female workers in violation of California’s Equal Pay Act, citing a wage gap of around $17,000. The complaint also alleges Google locks women into lower career tracks, leading to less pay and lower bonuses when compared to their male counterparts.
At issue is whether Google’s chatbot, LaMDA—a Language Model for Dialogue Applications—can be considered a person.
The data are available for other scientists to use. “It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research,” says Weissman, who is also a member of the Whitehead Institute and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Microsoft has announced the retirement of 27-year-old Internet Explorer as the firm's oldest browser will be completely phased out from June 15.
It’s important we don’t lose sight of the issue it highlighted: that things can easily get convoluted and less efficient if we prioritize one particular device - any device - over others.