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2 weeks agoCurrent Event j0rg
FBI: Pranksters are hijacking smart devices to live-stream swatting incidents
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says pranksters are hijacking weakly-secured smart devices in order to live-stream swatting incidents. "Recently, offenders have been using victims' smart devices, including video and audio capable home surveillance devices, to carry out swatting attacks," the FBI said in a public service announcement published today.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event j0rg
Reddit clone Voat, home to hate speech and QAnon, has shut down
The platform was a haven for communities deemed too racist or hateful for Reddit.
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1 month agoCurrent Event j0rg
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces activation in brain regions related to self-blame in patients in remission from depression
New research suggests mindfulness-based cognitive therapy protects remitted depressed patients from relapse by reducing tendencies toward self-blame. The findings were published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
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1 month agoReview j0rg
HBO’s “How To with John Wilson” Captures the Weird, Wondrous New York City That’s Never on TV
As a documentarian, Wilson has a receptive spirit and a fascination with arcane institutions and subcultures.
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1 month agoHow-to j0rg
How to turn your Xbox Series X/S into an emulation powerhouse
Console “Developer Mode” offers a way in for RetroArch’s dozens of emulation cores.
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1 month agoCurrent Event j0rg
‘A pivotal moment’: Democracies urged to band together to resist China
Top national security, foreign policy officials and activists this weekend issued a call for democratic nations to revitalize international institutions and pursue new, more flexible ways for governments to band together to confront China’s economic and technological warfare and aggressive military buildup.
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2 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
Plate tectonics may have begun a billion years earlier than thought
Plate tectonics may have begun 4 billion years ago, almost a billion years earlier than we thought, according to a new analysis of ancient rocks. The claim has earned a mixed response from geologists. Many argue that Earth was too hot at the time for plate tectonics in its modern form.
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2 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
Great Fox-Spider Assumed Extinct in UK Found at British Army Training Area After 27 Years
One of Britain's largest spiders, the Great Fox Spider, once thought to have gone extinct, has been spotted for the first time after 27 years at a Ministry of Defence training ground in Surrey. After being untraceable for more than a quarter of a century in the UK, finally this year the conservationists report the sighting of 22 Great Fox Spiders, including mature males and one mature female.
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2 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
Exxon denies Trump called CEO for money. But Big Oil is donating way more to Trump than Biden
President Donald Trump is a fierce backer of the fossil fuels industry. And that support is paying off big time in the money race. Trump is crushing Joe Biden in campaign donations from the embattled oil-and-gas industry. The president and outside groups aligned with him have raised nearly $13 million from individuals at oil-and-gas companies, according to OpenSecrets, a research group that tracks money in politics. That easily dwarfs the $976,000 the industry has sent to Biden.
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4 months agoLevel Up j0rg
Level 17
j0rg is now level 17 with 282,145 XP.
View Unlocks- Following The maximum amount of users you can follow has been raised by 20 to a total of 260.
- Image Submission The maximum amount of images you can submit to a unique social gallery has been raised by 1 to a total of 8.
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4 months agoAchievement j0rg
Red Eye Jedi
Viewed 1500/1500 snaps! Congratulations j0rg on this achievement!
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4 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
Bloomberg: two Apple Watches, new iPad Air coming in a month
Apple has asked its suppliers to manufacture at least 75 million 5G-enabled iPhones as it anticipates 80 million shipments of its next-gen iPhones this year, reports Bloomberg citing people familiar with the situation. The Cupertino-based tech giant plans to launch four new iPhone models later this year - two regular and two Pro premium offerings. These will support 5G networks, come with OLED panels, and come in three sizes - 5.4", 6.1", and 6.7".
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4 months agoCurrent Event j0rg
86% of US states increased internet speeds during COVID-19 lockdown
Logic may have you believe that with the dramatic increase of use and reliance on the internet during the coronavirus crisis that internet speeds slowed. However, the average internet speed in the US increased from 84.9Mbps to 94.6Mbps. This may surprise some, given the surge in bandwidth demand from Zoom-use, streaming, gaming and more reliance on the internet speed.
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4 months agoAchievement j0rg
Trend Setter
Have 2/2 snaps reach the maximum grid size on the front page grid view! Congratulations j0rg on this achievement!
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4 months agoRelated Link j0rg
WordPress developer said Apple wouldn't allow updates to the free app until it added in-app purchases — letting Apple collect a 30% cut
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