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Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury by thunderbong

On December 30th, while most of us were preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration, the US Treasury was prepping a notice to lawmakers to notify them that their systems, which (obviously) contain highly sensitive, confidential data, had been compromised. (Honestly, I’m not sure how I missed this news. Usually I’m pretty plugged in, especially

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Apple uses hidden watermarks on iPhone 15 boxes to verify authenticity by thunderbong

iPhone 15 Pro Extra precautions have been taken for iPhone 15 boxes that give retail employees and buyers a new way to verify the device is real — but you’ll need a UV light. Scammers attempt to sell fake iPhones by using convincing replicated device packaging. Apple has added a new invisible watermarking system in

ByHackTechSeptember 22, 20230Comments

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A Hidden Reason Cities Fall Apart by eatonphil

Guest EssayDowntown St. Louis in 1903.Credit…George Stark/Library of Congress, via Getty ImagesBy Thomas B. EdsallMr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.Once-vibrant cities like St. Louis, Baltimore and Cleveland have suffered from poverty, crime, depopulation, social dysfunction and homelessness for decades — setbacks compounded by the decline of manufacturing

ByHackTechSeptember 18, 20230Comments

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Is a hidden account in macOS considered a feature? by snakeroot

In July 2020, a co-worker and I discovered that hidden accounts could be created in MacOS in a very low-tech manner. In such a manner that they do not appear in the GUI and neither appear to the command-line `dscl . -list /Users` command. Though I haven't tried this on the latest MacOS iteration, I

ByHackTechJune 4, 20230Comments

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The Hidden Dangers of the Decentralized Web by marban

When Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, many users migrated to the free and open-source platform Mastodon. Mastodon, like other decentralized social media, isn’t owned by one of the major players in tech and doesn’t rely on one company’s centralized system. Instead, it operates on independently run servers. Other decentralized social media platforms, like

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Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight by lawrenceyan

Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Santa Fe Institute Across the DecadesDavid C. Krakauer1984–1999: MAVERICKS1. Complex Adaptive Systems: A Primer, John H. Holland 2. Bounded Rationality and Other Departures, Kenneth Arrow and George Cowan 3. Can Physics Contribute to Economics? Richard Palmer 4. Nature Conformable to Herself, Murray Gell-Mann 5. The Simply Complex: Trendy Buzzword or Emerging New Science? John Casti 6. Learning How to Control Complex

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