XXongo writes: The Guardian tells the story of the Satoshi, the converted cruise ship that was supposed to be the libertarian paradise, homesteading the high seas off the coast of Panama, free from rules and regulations and (most of all) taxes, with an…
McDonald’s Leaks Password For Monopoly VIP Database To Winners
A bug in the McDonald’s Monopoly VIP game in the United Kingdom caused the login names and passwords for the game’s database to be sent to all winners. BleepingComputer reports: After skipping a year due to COVID-19, McDonald’s UK launched their popula…
WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages
Gizmodo highlights the findings of a new ProPublic report on WhatsApp’s content moderation system. What they found was that there are at least 1,000 WhatsApp content moderators employed by Facebook’s moderator contract firm Accenture to review user-rep…
Unity Patents ‘Methods and Apparatuses To Improve the Performance of a Video Game Engine Using An Entity Component System’
slack_justyb writes: Unity has filed a patent with the USPTO for “Methods and apparatuses to improve the performance of a video game engine using an Entity Component System (ECS).”
ECS methods are something that some other open source game engines alr…
Jagex Nixes Community-Built RuneScape HD Client, Massive Backlash Follows
New submitter Sauce Tin writes: In a blog post, Jagex announced the shutdown of a community-driven RuneScape HD graphics client. The announcement came at an inopportune time — the community client was prepped for release this week and had been announc…
Ford Hires Away Executive Leading Apple’s Car Project
Ford is hiring the head of Apple’s car project away from the iPhone maker, a stunning development that brings the 118-year-old automaker an executive with Silicon Valley chops. Bloomberg reports: Doug Field is coming aboard as chief advanced technology…
Salvador Street Protest Breaks Out Against Bitcoin Adoption
More than 1,000 people marched in El Salvador’s capital on Tuesday to protest the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, amid a bumpy initial rollout of systems to support the digital currency. Reuters reports: The protesters burned a tire and set off fi…
Howard University Announces Ransomware Attack, Shuts Down Classes On Tuesday
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Howard University announced on Monday that it has been hit with a ransomware attack, forcing the school to shut down classes on Tuesday, according to a statement from the prominent HBCU. The school said t…
City of Beijing Said To Seek Taking Didi Under State Control
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Beijing’s municipal government has proposed an investment in Didi Global Inc. that would give state-run firms control of the world’s largest ride-hailing company, according to people familiar with the…
If You Can’t Stand People Fidgeting, You May Have Misokinesia
Misophonia is the “hatred of sound,” or “sound rage,” a condition in which people have intense emotional and physical reactions to trigger noises, often chewing or lip smacking. Misokinesia, on the other hand, is the “hatred of movement.” Last week, To…