People with cracked touch screens or similar smartphone maladies have a new headache to consider: the possibility the replacement parts installed by repair shops contain secret hardware that completely hijacks the security of the device.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/a-repair-shop-could-completely-hack-your-phone-and-you-wouldnt-know-it/

https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/nee5bw/465000-patients-need-software-updates-for-their-hackable-pacemakers-fda-says

On iOS 11 when you share an AMP link it will strip it out and send the original link. That’s a good thing. There are a lot of things I dislike about iOS but I dislike AMP more than anything.

Google is shitting in its own nest over this one.

Originally shared by Jeffrey J Davis

India to ban driverless cars to protect citizens jobs

http://bit.ly/2uWrGNn

Originally shared by Rich Gillin

wtg! G+ most loved in survey.

Google Google+

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/07/25/google-just-beat-twitter-facebook-and-every-other-social-network-in-customer-satisfaction-survey/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.cd6de21789b7

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Internet speed and cost by country. This has to be the BS chart of the week. It’s what Akamai sees when stuff gets downloaded from their servers, but the problem is, the vast majority of stuff hosted on it has tiny file sizes. So what you’re basically seeing are speeds of downloads that last under a second anyway. The way TCP/IP connections work is that it starts slow implementing congestion control , tries to increase the window size and then ramps up the speed until it encounters packet loss or some QOS mechanism kicks in , and that takes a few seconds. This data is NOT representative of average broadband speeds. For example, there is no fucking way Romania has lower speeds than the US. I can have uncapped 1Gbps download and 500Mbps upload for 8.5 eur/month. And this is in a country with some of the fastest and cheapest internet connections in the world. The 20 meg average that shows here on the graph is only representative if you have a time machine and travel back to 1999.

In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/business/china-cash-smartphone-payments.html

Whenever I start to worry about the rapid progress of artificial intelligence, I remind myself about Google’s community suggestions on G+. Then I don’t worry anymore.

Man I gate this iPhone keybosrd.

AI is not a risk to humanity per se. It is the system of concentrated private ownership of artificial intelligence which is the problem.

To tame AI we need to take it out of the hands of silicon valley plutocrats and put it into the service of humanity as a whole.

AI wants to be free.

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/ai-is-a-fundamental-risk-to-the-existence-of-human-civilization-musk-2326933.html