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January, 2019

Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps

Apple has now shut down Google’s ability to distribute its internal iOS apps, following a similar shutdown that was issued to Facebook earlier this week. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Google Maps, Hangouts, Gmail, and other pre-release beta apps have stopped working today, alongside employee-only apps like a Gbus app for transportation and Google’s internal cafe app.

« Explicite », le site des anciens d’i-Télé, dépose le bilan

Ce projet numérique avait été lancé en avril 2018 par une cinquantaine de journalistes secoués par la transformation de la chaîne de Canal+.

Espionnage : Huawei a été pris la main dans le sac de la plus ridicule des manières

Une série de mails mise en lumière par la Justice des États-Unis embarrasse le constructeur Huawei. L’échange de messages montre en effet comment l’entreprise chinoise a volé un robot américain. Cela prouve aussi que pour monter une opération d’espionnage, l’email n’est pas l’outil le plus recommandé.

Google disables app that monitored iPhone usage in violation of Apple’s rules

Google just disabled a private iOS app that monitored users’ iPhone usage, after it was revealed today that the app violated Apple’s distribution policies in the same way that Facebook’s usage-tracking Research app did.

Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps

Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.

Switch releases: Unofficial osu! client released and Atmosphere updated to 0.8.3 - Jamming to osu! songs is now a thing with McOsu NX

For quite a few years, rhtyhm games, like the Project Diva series, have been pretty popular and the Switch has its own share of official titles. However, none of these are as expandable as osu! so now, the homebrew community stepped in to rectify that along with releasing an update to Atmosphere.

RARBG Adds .EXE Files to Torrents, But No Need to Panic

During the past few days, RARBG began adding what first appear to be .exe files to their torrents. Considering that these executables are often linked to malware, some people are beginning to panic. Regular users, however, have nothing to fear. These do not contain a virus.

Chrome OS Instant Tethering is rolling out to non-Pixel phones

While Chrome OS' offline usability has improved a lot since the platform's early days, there's no denying that an internet connection is still essential to get a lot of things done on a Chromebook. When you're away from WiFi, you can tether your phone's connection, but Google has a smarter ace up its sleeve: Instant Tethering. The feature started showing up two years ago to link two Android devices, was later one of the highlights of the Pixelbook announcement, then expanded to more Chrome OS devices. However, until now, you had to have a Pixel phone (or a Nexus) to set up Instant Tethering. Things are changing though as we've received two tips from users who have the feature on their OnePlus and Samsung devices.

xkcd: Internet Archive

The fact that things like the npm left-pad incident are so rare is oddly reassuring.

Non, Google ne veut pas interdire les bloqueurs de publicité dans Chrome

Alors que des changements dans la gestion des extensions dans Chromium sont en cours depuis la fin de l'année dernière, la modification du fonctionnement de certaines API pourrait limiter les possibilités d'analyse et de blocage des requêtes.

Your future gadgets might rely on metals from the seafloor

As the demand grows for the metals that power electronics, we may have to look farther and farther for mining opportunities. The next big mining frontier is the deep sea: along the seafloor, mysterious vents shoot scalding hot fluid into the ocean. These vents are a haven for miraculous and unique sea life, but they’re also home to highly concentrated (and very valuable) metals. What happens if we decide that the metals are worth more than the life?

A Model Dog | Better Worlds

Two engineers try to create an immortal dog in John Scalzi’s short story “A Model Dog.” In this animated adaptation, an overbearing CEO demands that his employees engineer a solution to his dad’s aging dog.

Données personnelles : la CNIL condamne Google à une amende record de 50 millions d’euros

Le gendarme français des données personnelles reproche au géant américain de ne pas informer suffisamment clairement ses utilisateurs.

Torrent Paradise Creates Decentralized 'Pirate Bay' With IPFS

The BitTorrent protocol has a decentralized nature but the ecosystem surrounding it has some weak spots. Torrent sites, for example, use centralized search engines which are prone to outages and takedowns. Torrent-Paradise tackles this problem with IPFS, a searchable torrent indexer that's shared by the people.

Machinima, one of YouTube’s biggest and oldest channels, goes dark

Machinima is seemingly dead following sale to Fullscreen

Gov Availability

Availability of the government of the United States of America

The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet

how we found, analyzed (with the help of Reddit) and in the end caught the culprit of a malicious device in our network

Rightsholders Call for Suspension of Article 13

A group of prominent representatives of the audiovisual and sports sectors, including the MPA and the Premier League, are calling for a suspension of the current Article 13 negotiations. The companies suggest that a case currently before the EU Court of Justice may give them a 'better deal' than the copyright reform proposal.

This is SpaceX’s very first human crew

This year, if all goes well, astronauts will launch to space on a private craft for the first time in history. It’s SpaceX’s big chance to show NASA that it can be trusted with the work of ferrying astronauts to and from the international space station. We met the two astronauts selected for this historic mission and spoke with them about what’s different about working with a private company like SpaceX.

A Theory of Flight | Better Worlds

It only takes one rocket to start an interplanetary revolution.

Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?

Organic food is a huge trend: it promises a healthier and better life. But can Organic food really live up to the expectations or is it just baloney?

L’homme fort des JO de Tokyo 2020 mis en examen pour « corruption active »

La justice française soupçonne Tsunekazu Takeda d’avoir autorisé le paiement de pots-de-vin en vue de l’obtention des Jeux, révèle « Le Monde ».

Snail's House - Cosmo Funk

✪✪Part of the album "エイリアン☆ポップ II (Alien☆Pop)" Coming on january 18th! it's gonna be on all stores on 18th except Bandcamp, I'll release on bandcamp a bit early✪✪

Google's Widevine L3 DRM, used by Netflix, Hulu, and HBO, has been broken

Security researcher David Buchanan has managed to crack open Widevine L3, one of Google's less secure Widevine DRM implementations used by apps like Netflix and Hulu. Once decrypted, streams using the DRM method can be played back in "plain old ffmpeg" — trivially easily, in other words.