av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 21, 2018 | Ted

It may seem that we’re living in a borderless world where ideas, goods and people flow freely from nation to nation. We’re not even close, says Pankaj Ghemawat. With great data (and an eye-opening survey), he argues that there’s a delta between perception and reality in a world that’s maybe not so hyperconnected after all.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 20, 2018 | Ted

Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world’s psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I’ll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.)
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 19, 2018 | Ted

John La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The invention, Safeplug, promises to prevent deadly accidents like house fires — and to conserve energy.
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 18, 2018 | Ted

Popular iOS Twitter client, Leaf, has announced today that the app will no longer be getting updates. With the announcement, the developer iPlop, and app designer Surenix have shed some light on what they’ve been working on, but will ultimately never see the light of day.
The duo shared that Leaf’s long-awaited update will never come to fruition due to the recent Twitter API changes. Their official account tweeted:
Due to recent Twitter API changes, we’re sad to announce the end of Leaf. This means some new features will never see the light of day. Although we’ve never got a chance to launch these features, we’d still like to show you what they looked like in development.
Källa: iOS Twitter client Leaf joins others as it announces end of life due to Twitter API changes
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 17, 2018 | Ted
Mozilla removed today 23 Firefox add-ons that snooped on users and sent data to remote servers, a Mozilla engineer has told Bleeping Computer today.
The list of blocked add-ons includes ”Web Security,” a security-centric Firefox add-on with over 220,000 users, whoch was at the center of a controversy this week after it was caught sending users’ browsing histories to a server located in Germany.
Källa: Mozilla Removes 23 Firefox Add-Ons That Snooped on Users
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 17, 2018 | Ted

BY MISCONFIGURING PAGES on Trello, a popular project management website, the governments of the United Kingdom and Canada exposed to the entire internet details of software bugs and security plans, as well as passwords for servers, official internet domains, conference calls, and an event-planning system.
The U.K. government also exposed a small quantity of code for running a government website, as well as a limited number of emails. All told, between the two governments, a total of 50 Trello pages, known on the site as “boards,” were published on the open web and indexed by Google.
Källa: British and Canadian Governments Accidentally Exposed Passwords and Security Plans to the Entire Internet