From the archive

June 2021

31 posts

Instagram Sheds Light on How it Works

Have you ever wondered why you see posts on Instagram in the order that you do? Instagram posted a detailed blog post titled: “Shedding More Light on How Instagram Works”. I found some of the things in their blog post to be interesting. Instagram explained that it doesn’t have one algorithm that oversees what people do and don’t see on

U.S. Department of Justice Seized $2.3M in Bitcoin from Ransomware Hackers

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it seized 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million. According to the Department of Justice, “these funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8, ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide.” This is the group that targeted the Colonial Pipeline, causing it to shutdown. As alleged in the

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Jeff Bezos to be an Astronaut

Jeff Bezos is going to risk life and limb and strap himself into a rocket and go on a joyride to space to earn his Astronaut wings. Stepping down as CEO as of July 5th will allow him the opportunity to travel to space with 5 others including his brother. I would suspect his insurance company will likely not insure

Amazon Prime Day approaches, warm up your wallet

Very few people don’t shop at Amazon at least occasionally. Some perhaps more than they should – or more than the significant other wishes.  Good news, Amazon Pime Day is coming. You have a little time to make up your mind, the announcement just came out but the big moment takes place over two days – June 21-22.  Amazon promises

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Amazon Industrial Athlete

Have you ever heard of an Industrial Athlete? Well, that is what Amazon is referring to its employees in a leaked pamphlet that seriously attempts to make Amazon warehouse workers think they are training for some competition that happens daily. I am not sure what idiot came up with that slogan, obviously, one that does not work on the warehouse

Swatch Launches Space Collection

Swatch has launched a five-watch space collection inspired by NASA and the exploration of space. On sale today in Swatch stores and from 8 June on-line, the watches feature the famous "worm" NASA logo. These are going to be hot. The collection consists of two different model sets. The first set of three watches are Big Bold watches with Bioceramic

OpenSUSE Drops Leap 15.3

OpenSUSE has dropped an update to its Linux distro, Leap 15.3, eleven months after the previous release. This new release includes updates to the desktop environments KDE, Gnome, Xfce and Sway; new packages for education, research and health; artificial intelligence packages; improvements to containers and virtualisation. The team at OpenSUSE has been working hard behind the scenes as well. Leap

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