It’s a disingenuous scare tactic and they should be ashamed of themselves. But they won’t be.

>When Verizon bought AOL in 2015 for $4.4 billion, the company called AOL “a digital trailblazer.” Lowell C. McAdam, Verizon’s chief executive at the time, championed the deal as part of its “strategy to provide a cross-screen connection for consumers, creators and advertisers to deliver that premium experience.” > It was all in the pursuit of almighty “scale,” a business term of art that has almost become a religious mantra in Silicon Valley. The goal was to build a bigger audience to sell more advertising. But the internet’s economics had already shifted years before, and content that users provided free, whether in the form of Facebook posts or YouTube videos, drove much online activity. AOL and Yahoo, despite their big audiences, had become distant also-rans. >Verizon still saw value in Yahoo and AOL. The idea was to give Verizon customers content they couldn’t get elsewhere at a time when all cellphone service offerings were essentially the same. And AOL’s giant ad-tech business could give Verizon a better way to sell advertising on its phones. > Apollo has been on a buying spree in the past few months, announcing deals to acquire Michaels, the chain of crafting stores, and the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. It has also had a shake-up in its senior ranks, with its co-founder Leon Black stepping down as chairman in March after the revelation he had paid more than $150 million to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wat.

I’m curious to hear the proposed explanations for this. > About 3.98 million people signed up for Netflix between January and March, well short of the projected 6 million. >The company said a lack of new shows may have contributed to the shortfall, adding that it expected this to recover as sequels to hit shows are released. > The streaming service added 15.8 million new subscribers last year as Covid-19 forced people around the world to stay home. >Much of that growth came in Asia, where Netflix added 9.3 million new subscribers in 2020, an increase of about 65% over the previous year.

Please tell my company. I hate changing my passwords so often.

What should people who were leaked be doing about it? Aside from getting off Facebook ASAP

> "old" means patched, secure, all vulnerabilities are known Not really. In my experience, it means that the vendor is no longer actively LOOKING for vulnerabilities. It doesn’t mean that they no longer exist. For example, the WannaCry ransomware attacks targeted software that was already end-of-life.

The power industry tends to struggle with updating old devices and operating systems. 1. New software is released far more frequently than most devices can reasonably be replaced or updated. In many cases, big equipment and specialty systems are purchased on 30 year warranties for millions of dollars. Upgrades and replacements almost always require an outage (which may also have to be approved by a regulatory body) as well as updated settings and extensive functional testing. 2. Manufacturer focus is still more on function than security It's gotten better but this is still the norm, especially when the company is based outside the US. There have been cases where a vendor refused to release a security bulletin/vulnerability notification or patch for even serious issues (passwords being sent unencrypted or displaying in plain text for example). When asked about how customers will be notified of patches and any other security issues, one vendor reassured us that "There will be no more vulnerabilities." 3. We use many highly specialized devices that are harder to update without negatively affecting the system. Sometimes the manufacturer decides not to make the device compatible with updated software at all. You end up with some super special gizmo that limits everything else because it can only be supported with software for Windows XP. This is even worse if you have to hire a 3rd party to integrate/manage the system. Sure, they will upgrade you. But it will be another 20 million dollars on top of a 30 million dollar contract. In many cases, this is prohibitively expensive and cannot simply be repeated each time a new operating system is released. 4. Patching compliance rules inadvertently make firmware-based devices (which have far fewer patches and updates than operating-system based devices) and devices from vendors who aren't looking for vulnerabilities more appealing. The patching compliance requirements are probably the most expensive part of the CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection) requirements. Sometimes utilities are pushed to make a choice between choosing a product from a responsible vendor that makes regular updates (which increase the chances of incurring a potential violation by not meeting all the requirements for each update/patch released) or one from a vendor that rarely releases updates. Although the responsible vendor is the better choice for security, the risk of incurring huge fines (up to $1,000,000 per day, per violation) is huge. I think this is part of the reason that you can find even highly complex things like static VAR compensator systems purchased for millions of dollars but running MS DOS.

Yep. I think that was the source I was looking at. Many of those ideas still seem pretty cool and I didn’t even know they existed. What a waste :/

Google abandons everything it seems. Even google developed stuff and often out of the blue. iGoogle. Picasa. Google+. Google Play Music. It’s like a finicky child that quickly gets bored with new toys

Oh, Americans have this fear as well, believe me. It’s scary

Maybe I just haven’t figured out a good workaround yet but Reddit practically forces users to use the app when trying to browse on mobile.

Ah. That’s a good point. I hadn’t thought of that. It’s certainly a useful feature for me though. I can’t figure out why the Reddit app would need clipboard contents

I have mixed feelings about this. It would be convenient but it would make the phone that much more appealing to steal. At least when my stuff is separate, I don’t lose it all at one time. That would be a nightmare

Omg. This is insane. I never thought I would agree with Zuck but people are losing their freaking minds over this. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts” That’s it. Seriously? People are being ridiculous about this whole thing