Security researchers have found a new class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips which, if exploited, can be used to steal sensitive information directly from the processor., The bugs are reminiscent of Meltdown and Spectre , which exploited a weakness in speculative execution, an important part of how modern processors work. So, their “old” processors get slower and slower due to patches for massive security bugs? Why would you buy an Intel processor again? ...

Wine for 68k Mac binaries :) Unlike DOS, early versions of Windows, and most *nixes, the classic Mac operating system is weird. Contained in the ROM are subroutines to draw windows, pop up dialog boxes, and other various tasks purely related to the UI. On other systems, this would be separate from the BIOS, but in your Mac from the 80s, everything is baked into the ROM and hidden deep in the operating system. ...

“Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages. … But the documents, as well as interviews with about 50 former employees of Facebook and its corporate partners, reveal that Facebook allowed certain companies access to data despite those protections…In all, the deals described in the documents benefited more than 150 companies — most of them tech businesses…The deals, the oldest of which date to 2010, were all active in 2017. Some were still in effect this year.” www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html

Strain: “Cancer’s nightmare” ~4 weeks after starting 12/12 light.

BAKERSFIELD, CA—In the hours following a violent rampage in California in which a lone attacker killed six individuals, including himself, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Thursday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place.… Read more… Source: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

Oliver later testified that he fired at the car because he saw it creeping toward his partner, Officer Tyler Gross, and he believed Gross’s life was in danger. Gross, however, testified that he didn’t fear for his life. And body cam footage contradicted Oliver’s account. When he opened fire, the vehicle was driving away from him. news.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5p9g/former-texas-cop-who-shot-and-killed-a-black-teen-leaving-a-party-found-guilty-of-murder

At that point, the hacker said, they requested the user credentials by sending the ID to the company servers with a web request that returned usernames and passwords in plaintext. With a script to automate that process, L.M. said he harvested all the customers’ credentials. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4y5x/thetruthspy-spyware-domestic-abusers-hacked-data-breach

Intelligence officials are growing concerned that Mr. Trump cherry-picks their findings to reinforce decisions he has already made, several administration officials said in interviews. NO WAI

It’s beautiful!!! \https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miqN2gR1Zns&w=854&h=480\ via Techmoan - Techmoan - Cronixie - The eye-catching edge-lit clock kit

As a U.S. manufacturing manager pointed out, “U.S. managers analyze, rationalize, and agonize until their office walls are covered with paper before committing to a piece of equipment requiring an investment of $500,000—and therefore an annual depreciation charge of $50,000. Yet the process of evaluating and making recommendations regarding the training, compensation, and career path of a $50,000 a year (including benefits) engineer typically requires one-half of a piece of paper, reluctantly prepared in one-half hour once a year!” This difference in priorities is puzzling, particularly when one recognizes that a machine is simply the embodiment of an engineer’s skill. ...