NotesOn Friday, Facebook announced that hackers had leveraged three separate bugs to collect 50 million users’ so-called access tokens, which are the equivalent of digital keys to a Facebook account. With those tokens, hackers can take full control of users’ Facebook accounts, but because of Single Sign-On, they can also access any other website that those 50 million users log into with Facebook.FeedUnfurl
NotesiPhone 4 handsets not wake us as promised (on non-recurring alarms), so who knows when Apple will step up to the plate and address the issue. In the meantime, go ahead and set up a recurring alarm while gently crossing your fingers and toes. Or, you know, buy a battery-powered alarm clock off of your grandmother.FeedUnfurl
Notes"Since the thing is a security nightmare, it might as well be a complete and total nightmare, like the ones where you wake up and then find out you haven't actually woken up"Unfurl
Notes"From my previous work experiences in the antivirus industry and following CCP for quite some time now, I have come to appreciate the need for full disclosure when things don't go according to plan."Unfurl
Notes"A typo caused the untimely demise of my latest nethack venture. I ate a cockatrice corpse, instead of wielding it, while on the astral plane, poised to completely decimate the current top score."Unfurl
Notes"We started with Iraq in the 'axis of evil' side, when we thought they did not yet have nuclear weapons, and that sent the signal to others that they better get them quick"Unfurl
NotesD'oht, I've been HAD. False: "Good satire neatly straddles the divide between the believable and the incredible, and the Dateline Hollywood article quoted above achieved that balance so well that many readers mistook it for a straight news article."Unfurl
Notes"In one of the worst messes since banks put their faith in computers, today is the fifth day in which the Royal Bank of Canada cannot tell its 10 million Canadian customers with any certainty how much money is in their accounts."Unfurl
The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure | WIRED
iPhone alarms still not working, worlds crashing left and right