Oops: All your Twitch belongs to us
An anonymous hacker claims to have leaked the entirety of Twitch, including its source code and user payout information. The user posted a 125GB torrent link to 4chan on Wednesday,…
Long lasting fire retardant approved for use against wildfires
Neat! The U.S. Forest Service approved Perimeter Solutions’ fire retardant that’s intended to be used as a preventative measure and can last for months. Source: Fire retardant could be ‘game-changer’…
Another “superspreader” forecast falls flat
Re-opening of public schools was going to cause a mass increase in “positive cases”. Like nearly all super spreader predictions, this one failed too. In many countries, children have been…
Feds order Google to turn over contact info of anyone who uses certain search terms
The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows. There are fears such “keyword warrants” threaten…
HR resume robot scanners may be eliminating 27 million potential workers, says Harvard study
This may explain part of the “worker shortage” – much of it may be a self inflicted shortage created by automated hiring practices: Automated-hiring technology known as Applicant Tracking Systems…