Monday, August 12, 2024

TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users, including a weeks-old disaster warning; TikTok removed some of the notifications (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users, including a weeks-old disaster warning; TikTok removed some of the notifications  —  False claims about Taylor Swift among outdated and misleading information in news-style notifications from video-sharing app



A researcher finds 15K+ hardcoded secrets and 66K vulnerable websites, including details on accessing Stanford's Slack, by searching overlooked data sources (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Matt Burgess / Wired:
A researcher finds 15K+ hardcoded secrets and 66K vulnerable websites, including details on accessing Stanford's Slack, by searching overlooked data sources  —  Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.



Google Pixel Fold one year later: far from the perfect gadget but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold may solve its issues (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google Pixel Fold one year later: far from the perfect gadget but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold may solve its issues  —  Using the Fold can feel special, but Google needs to make some obvious upgrades for the follow-up.



Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...