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Attackers Dupe GoDaddy Staff Into Helping Them Take Down Cryptocurrency Services
Attackers Dupe GoDaddy Staff Into Helping Them Take Down Cryptocurrency Services
Roughly one year after a data breach at GoDaddy compromised 28,000 customer accounts, the world’s largest internet domain registrar is once again at the center of a security scandal. Hackers brought down several cryptocurrency services using GoDaddy domains in recent weeks, and apparently the company’s own staff…Read more...
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California Says Tesla Workers Are Now ‘Essential,’ and Can Ignore Stay-at-Home Order
California Says Tesla Workers Are Now ‘Essential,’ and Can Ignore Stay-at-Home Order
Workers that make Teslas during the coronavirus pandemic are now apparently considered “essential” in the state of California, which has reported an average of 10,981 new covid-19 infections per day in the last week. This means that Tesla’s workers will not be affected by the state’s new limited stay-at-home order,…Read more...
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It Doesn’t Matter If Trump Never Concedes, Twitter Is Giving @POTUS to Biden
It Doesn’t Matter If Trump Never Concedes, Twitter Is Giving @POTUS to Biden
Outgoing President Donald Trump is set to receive a rude awakening on Jan. 20, 2021 on his favorite social media platform: Twitter. That day, Trump will no longer see a picture of himself on the popular @POTUS account—the official presidential Twitter account, although Trump prefers to use his own personal, …Read more...
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More States Are Offering Contact-Tracing Apps—Now if Only They Could Get People to Use Them
More States Are Offering Contact-Tracing Apps—Now if Only They Could Get People to Use Them
Google and Apple rolled out their covid-19 contact-tracing APIs months ago for state officials to use in developing their own covid-19-tracking apps, but adoption has proceeded at a snail’s pace. Just 15 states and Washington, D.C. are currently employing the tech giants’ “exposure notification” tech while a handful…Read more...
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This Video Takes a Tour of the Hidden Tunnels Underneath the Original Disney Animation Buildings
This Video Takes a Tour of the Hidden Tunnels Underneath the Original Disney Animation Buildings
What do Paris, Disney, and sprawling nuclear fallout shelters have in common? Catacombs!Read more...
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We Need to Talk About Franklin
We Need to Talk About Franklin
Way back at the very beginning of Marvel’s Dawn of X, the Fantastic Four and members of the newly founded mutant nation of Krakoa crossed paths in a fateful, chance encounter that underlined just what it is about this new mutant age that scares the rest of the world so much. That subsequent tension between the…Read more...
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Saturday’s Best Deals: TCL 50″ 4K Smart TV, BarkBox Monthly Subscription Box, Succulents & Plants, SodaStream Kit, Fenty Poutsicle Lipsticks, and Dyson V10 Absolute
Saturday's Best Deals: TCL 50" 4K Smart TV, BarkBox Monthly Subscription Box, Succulents & Plants, SodaStream Kit, Fenty Poutsicle Lipsticks, and Dyson V10 Absolute
A 50-inch TCL 4K smart LED tv and a SodaStream sparkling water making kit lead Saturday’s best deals.Read more...
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Amazon’s Channels Platform Will Drop HBO Next Year as Part of HBO Max Deal
Amazon's Channels Platform Will Drop HBO Next Year as Part of HBO Max Deal
Starting next year, you won’t find HBO among Amazon’s Prime Video Channels selection anymore, CNBC reports. That was apparently one of WarnerMedia’s conditions in the months-long negotiations to bring its subscription streaming service, HBO Max, to Amazon Fire TV devices.Read more...
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The Coronavirus Has Once Again Contracted Trump
The Coronavirus Has Once Again Contracted Trump
The eldest Trump spawn, Donald Trump Jr., has reportedly contracted the coronavirus. Honestly, given the rate at which the virus has spread among the president’s staff and associates in recent weeks, is anyone really surprised? Read more...
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Save Big on Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us Part II, More in Sony’s Black Friday PlayStation Deals
Save Big on Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us Part II, More in Sony's Black Friday PlayStation Deals
Featured Deal: The Last of Us Part II | $30 | AmazonRead more...
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The Trump Admin Is Refusing to Give Full Cybersecurity Support to Biden’s Transition Team
The Trump Admin Is Refusing to Give Full Cybersecurity Support to Biden's Transition Team
President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is using a “standard, paid Google workspace network” with only limited support from the federal government thanks to Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 elections and efforts to hobble the inbound Democratic administration, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Read more...
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The 10 Best Deals of November 20, 2020
The 10 Best Deals of November 20, 2020
Friday’s Best Deals | Kinja DealsRead more...
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That Time Donald Trump Tried to Be Captain Planet, as Told by Barack Obama
That Time Donald Trump Tried to Be Captain Planet, as Told by Barack Obama
It’s Barack Obama book week. The former president’s new book, The Promised Land, dropped on Tuesday, and there’s a lot to pour over.Read more...
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Shop Early Black Friday Deals on Apple, LEGO, and PS4 Games in Amazon’s Holiday Dash Sale
Shop Early Black Friday Deals on Apple, LEGO, and PS4 Games in Amazon’s Holiday Dash Sale
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Deadpool 3 Finally Has Some Life
Deadpool 3 Finally Has Some Life
The Merc with the Mouth may finally be making his way to Disney’s Marvel Studios.Read more...
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Arecibo Observatory’s Greatest Triumphs
Arecibo Observatory's Greatest Triumphs
Yesterday brought the tragic news that the famous 1,000-foot radio dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will have to be demolished after the failure of two support cables. It’s the end of an era, but a good excuse to revisit some of the most important scientific contributions made possible by the famous…Read more...
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1,971 Americans Die of Covid-19 on Thursday as U.S. Sets Record For Daily Cases
1,971 Americans Die of Covid-19 on Thursday as U.S. Sets Record For Daily Cases
The U.S. reported 1,971 deaths from covid-19 on Thursday, the highest death toll since May, according to the Covid Tracking Project. The country also recorded over 182,000 new cases and more than 80,000 Americans are currently hospitalized, both grim new records for the U.S. during the pandemic. Public health experts…Read more...
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This Robot Can Make You Boba Tea Because Of Course That’s a Thing
This Robot Can Make You Boba Tea Because Of Course That's a Thing
I’ll admit that I wasn’t the biggest fan of boba tea even before the pandemic brought my social life to a grinding halt. Tapioca pearls just taste gross to me, as does bacon, avocado, and a slew of other oft-hyped food that the internet goes crazy over, so I realize I’m very much in the minority here. Though if it…Read more...
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Facebook Sues Operator Who Reportedly Scraped 100,000 Instagram Accounts for Clone Sites
Facebook Sues Operator Who Reportedly Scraped 100,000 Instagram Accounts for Clone Sites
Facebook filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a website owner who allegedly operated a network of Instagram clone sites using information from more than 100,000 public profiles. This complaint marks the social media giant’s latest crackdown on organizations both large and small for violating its terms of service. Read more...
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Great, We’re at the ‘8kun’s Admin Is an Election Security Expert’ Stage of This Bullshit
Great, We're at the '8kun's Admin Is an Election Security Expert' Stage of This Bullshit
Since his loss in the Nov. 3 elections, Donald Trump has largely dipped out of public view and occupied his time in some gold-plated panic room, issuing a ridiculous series of tweets claiming victory in various states and ordering his cartoon parody of a campaign legal team to sally forth and step on rakes while…Read more...
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iOS 14 Update to Fix iPhone 12 Bugs Affecting Texts and Lock Screen
iOS 14 Update to Fix iPhone 12 Bugs Affecting Texts and Lock Screen
A fix for a number of reported iPhone 12 troubles has arrived—at least for some of them, that is.Read more...
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OozeTube
OozeTube
Rudy Giuliani on Thursday took one of the last, desperate laps of the fifth-or-so act of a storied career. Read more...
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Here Are the Gaming Deals To Look Out for on Black Friday
Here Are the Gaming Deals To Look Out for on Black Friday
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Star Wars Legend Alan Dean Foster Says Disney Is Withholding Book Royalties
Star Wars Legend Alan Dean Foster Says Disney Is Withholding Book Royalties
The man who helped start Star Wars’ literary universe as we know it is now saying Disney is failing to pay up. Read more...
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CDC Tells Americans to Not Travel for Thanksgiving as Trump’s Festering Paw Loosens Its Grip
CDC Tells Americans to Not Travel for Thanksgiving as Trump's Festering Paw Loosens Its Grip
In what seems to be the latest sign of government officials acting independently of the Trump administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offered a simple message in its first media briefing since October: Stay home this Thanksgiving.Read more...
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Star Trek: Discovery Is Smashing Michael Between the Future She Wants and the Past She Let Go
Star Trek: Discovery Is Smashing Michael Between the Future She Wants and the Past She Let Go
Poor Michael Burnham has been through a lot. In Discovery’s first season, she found herself thrust into a war of her own making, as Starfleet began to grasp with the disparate sides of its militaristic and scientific selves. In season two, her personal traumas as a child became fundamental to saving the universe. Now,…Read more...
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Give Your Computer Some Breathing Room With $10 off Samsung’s 1TB Portable SSD
Give Your Computer Some Breathing Room With $10 off Samsung's 1TB Portable SSD
Samsung T5 1TB Portable SSD | $130 | NeweggRead more...
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It’s Time to Embrace Cloud Gaming, Especially GeForce Now
It's Time to Embrace Cloud Gaming, Especially GeForce Now
GeForce Now is on iOS. Luna is on iOS. Stadia and xCloud are coming to iOS in the not too distant future. Ideally, this would have been through a stand-alone app and not the Safari browser, but hey, when Apple says you have to submit every individual game on your cloud gaming platform for review to get it on the App…Read more...
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