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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 26, 2024?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, K. Benz Patented the Gasoline-Operated Motor Car in 1894, A US Navy Rocket Launch Failed to Orbit in 1958, The First Bar Code Reader in the US Was Introduced in 1974, The First Draft of the Human Genome Was Released in 2000, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Steganography: How to Hide Text in Images Using JavaScript to The Role of Data Destruction in Cybersecurity, let’s dive right in.

The Role of Data Destruction in Cybersecurity

TL;DR What happens to information when its no longer necessary? If youre concerned with cybersecurity, you should destroy it.

By @zacamos [ 5 Min read ]

What happens to information when it’s no longer necessary? When electronics and storage systems reach their end-of-life stage, businesses must get rid of them. While they could simply delete a device’s contents and toss it, that opens them up to cyber threats. Is data destruction more secure?..

Meet Brave: HackerNoon Company of the Week

TL;DR This week, HackerNoon features Brave, a provider of a suite of internet privacy tools.

By @companyoftheweek [ 2 Min read ]

Welcome to another Company of the Week feature! Every week, we feature an awesome tech brand from our tech company database, making their evergreen mark on the internet. This unique HackerNoon database ranks S&P 500 companies and top startups of the year alike.

That's all this week, folks!..

Steganography: How to Hide Text in Images Using JavaScript

TL;DR Steganography is a method of hiding secret messages in another, non-secret file. This article describes how to implement such an encoding engine using JS.

By @andriiromasiun [ 9 Min read ]

Steganography can also be extremely useful in many other cases, for example, it can be a good alternative to watermarking in sensitive documents to protect them against leakage.

Convert "Hello" text to binary.

Apply modified image bytes to the image itself...

How Advertisers Use Placement-Based Targeting on Childrens Videos

TL;DR Discover how advertisers leverage placement-based targeting on YouTubes children-focused videos.

By @webtwo [ 14 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Tinhinane Medjkoune, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG France;

(2) Oana Goga, LIX, CNRS, Inria, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris France;

(3) Juliette Senechal, Université de Lille, CRDP, DReDIS-IRJS France.

Abstract and Introduction

Background

Legislation on Advertising to Children

Limitations..

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