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With news that the data breach at web and phone analytics giant Mixpanel includes the viewing habits of Pornhub users, here's my TechCrunch story from early December about why this data breach is a big deal — and what sort of data Mixpanel tracks about millions of ordinary people every day.

I too would avoid publishing evidence of the more heinous murders I directed.

At least chlamydia won't expose teens to white nationalist propaganda?

Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

Fun fact: This is not actually a scoop at all, and was a minor detail in the story we did last week.

Celebrating collaboration and community excellence 🎉 The 2025 LF Decentralized Trust Community Awards recognize contributors building trusted, transparent, and secure decentralized technologies through open collaboration. Read more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #LFDecentralizedTrust #OpenSource

'Tis the season for festive displays, but Hanukkah doesn't always get the same kitschy, fun decor that other holidays do. In this project, you'll build a planetary gear that rotates three dreidels using an STSPIN220 silent stepper motor driver and a KB2040 running CircuitPython

ICE just quietly updated its hunger strike data. From July 1 to Sept 30, 106 people went on hunger strike. Two people in ICE custody were subjected to force-feeding or involuntary medical measures this summer As of Dec 2, ICE reports 14 ongoing hunger strikes www.ice.gov/doclib/deten...

The new head of the Trump administration's cancer panel has speculated that there's a link between Covid vaccines and "turbo cancer" and is, yes, a big ivermectin fan. from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

Shame on Fortinet They tied their engineers bonuses to their sales team, resulting in NO bonuses to their technical workers Then had the NERVE to pour salt in the wound by sending a phishing test email about 2025 holiday bonuses. GROSS.

Surprising moment this morning at McCrary Institute event w/ House Homeland Security Chair Andrew Garbarino, as he broke w/ FCC over elimination of telecom cyber regs. “I'm not sure I would have voted to get rid of some of the rules," Garbarino said in response to @martinmatishak.bsky.social's Q.

NEW: Hacking group Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters says it's trying to extort Pornhub after stealing Premium users's data. The data reportedly includes the registered email addresses and location; activity type, such as which videos and channels they watched, including the video name and web address.

Happy birthday to my short king www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Imagine it’s 2013 and you see this document from the UK sent back from the future. You’ll assume something went very wrong in that timeline.

Every week we'll 3D print designs from the community and showcase slicer settings, use cases and of course, Time-lapses! This week: Tealight Bulb Buddy By Eevul_Machinations makerworld.com/en/models/2084309-tealight-bulb-buddy #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/p-WhDKWAOZo

This isn't just a usability issue, it's a security issue too. Most people don't pay Adobe to do this. They download a slew of sketchy utilities bundled with adware (or worse) trying to get the job done.

My gaming PC has 192gb of RAM, purchased a year ago to get Flight Simulator 2024 working. I'm practically Richard Branson in 2025, touch me.

Somebody launched the "first 100% vibe coded playable game" on Steam last week, it's called Codex Mortis. It has AI generated code, art, sounds, music and "texts", along with an AI generated trailer. The game has 19 players on Steam, per SteamDB.

In my mind the internet isn't real, it's just some pocket universe where nothing matters. But then someone IRL will recognize me from TikTok, usually resulting in me considering fleeing into the jungle and living out the rest of my life pretending to be a lizard

A cool tech/science fact I like is that essentially all the energy consumed by a computer is converted into heat. A 1000 watt computer produces the same amount of heat as a 1000 watt space heater. So you can basically think of all your electronic devices as fancy space heaters that do math.

The same RAM kit I bought for $200 last year 🙃

It's not much yet, but it's home. 🇦🇺#immigrant

idk if we'll figure out fusion reactors any time soon. But the fission reactor on a nuclear submarine generates roughly 10x the power of this solar farm. It's extremely challenging to build reactors any smaller, but if you could, the reactor equivalent of this farm would fit in a trash can.

I found this cute pink pocket knife for $10 online and had to buy it 🥹

in the Before Times, most computers were fast enough for most workloads. so they had to invent a bigger workload. therefore, ML inference is a scam by big computer to sell more computer. in this essay, i will

the biggest challenge of racehorse ownership is deciding whether to call it may of neighs or soy's horse

But what happens if the government becomes tyrannical? Who will arm the neo-nazis so they can rid around in U-Haul trucks and threaten minorities?

Pretty much the actual best thing you can do to "combat the right" is just keep not using Twitter. Reactionary ideology works by playing into people's emotions and biases. They use people's real fears to sell them on solutions which sound rational but don't work. 1/3

Lmao. mastodon.social/@Pepijn@mast...

Made a chart…in case you needed one to show you that the president posts entirely too much. Data scraped from truth social.

I don’t want to download an app to track my order Shopify. I really don’t.

If you believe what Bondi said in her post without even a shred of evidence, I would say I've got a bridge to sell you but you're too inept to understand infrastructure. "I've got a foolproof cryptocurrency investment for you" yeah that's it.

OpenAI is losing its chief comms officer; Hannah Wong had been there since 2021. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social

My co-worker's last name was Null. The HR department had to rename him to "Empty String" just so their monthly report queries would stop breaking 😂

May I just say that the hard line @alaskaairlines.bsky.social takes with enforcing their "You must use headphones or silence your device" policy is GLORIOUS and I wish flight attendants on other carriers showed the same initiative in caring for other passengers by enforcing a similar rule. 🔇

Do I know anyone in Brooklyn who wants to make a fast $100 for some extra Christmas shopping? I have someone in my life near Brower Park who needs to take four large boxes to the Door To Door pharmacy at 259 Troy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213 for UPS drop off today. UPS scheduled pickup flaked.

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