Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong — and 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

Issue #362 — April 04, 2021

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Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong paulosyibelo.com \| points: 911 \| comments: 278

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533M Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online businessinsider.com \| points: 871 \| comments: 328

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Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop cfenollosa.com \| points: 413 \| comments: 736

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Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? dmitryelj.medium.com \| points: 411 \| comments: 480

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Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades economist.com \| points: 355 \| comments: 244

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Securing a Postgres Database goteleport.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 90

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China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019) cbc.ca \| points: 282 \| comments: 85

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ShipMap shipmap.org \| points: 268 \| comments: 67

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My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission kn100.me \| points: 266 \| comments: 181

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GitHub investigating crypto-mining campaign abusing its server infrastructure therecord.media \| points: 221 \| comments: 226

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An insider-trading indictment shows ties to Bloomberg News scoops cjr.org \| points: 196 \| comments: 100

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VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust vpncloud.ddswd.de \| points: 172 \| comments: 68

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The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland nrc.nl \| points: 169 \| comments: 108

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The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018) arxiv.org \| points: 162 \| comments: 38

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Amazon acknowledges issue of drivers urinating in bottles in apology reuters.com \| points: 157 \| comments: 163

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Handles are the better pointers (2018) floooh.github.io \| points: 147 \| comments: 85

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Loot boxes linked to problem gambling in new research bbc.co.uk \| points: 131 \| comments: 95

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Deliveroo April Fools’ joke backfires in France bbc.co.uk \| points: 121 \| comments: 88

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50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power blog.marcocantu.com \| points: 114 \| comments: 108

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Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file lapcatsoftware.com \| points: 109 \| comments: 10

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