#39 Daily Tech: Hacker claims they stole police data on a billion Chinese citizens
Hacker claims they stole police data on a billion Chinese citizens
A hacker (or group of hackers) claims to have stolen data on a billion Chinese citizens from a Shanghai police database. According to Bloomberg, the hacker is attempting to sell 23 terabytes of data for 10 bitcoin, which is worth just over $198,000 at the time of writing.
Mark Zuckerberg warns staff Facebook will be ‘turning up the heat’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to employees that the social media giant would be scaling back hiring and turning up the heat on its employees.
Manufacturers struggle to keep pace with vinyl record demand
The arrival of the compact disc nearly killed off record albums, with vinyl pressing machines sold, scrapped and dismantled by major record labels. Four decades later, with resuscitated record album sales producing double-digit annual growth, manufacturers are rapidly rebuilding an industry to keep pace with sales that reached $1 billion last year.
Is your smartphone ruining your memory?
‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint these days. But is it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do the endless alerts and distractions stop us forming new memories?
Nvidia and AMD graphics cards are again within reach, as prices of new and used GPUs like the RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti, and Radeon RX 6800 cards are at, approaching, or even under MSRP.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the meetings I cannot avoid, the courage to decline the ones I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. The previous sentence was one of my most liked Tweets of 2021.
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