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A Palestinian man hacked into Zuckerberg’s Facebook page to demonstrate how much its security sucks. This happened after his efforts to communicate the access hole were snubbed by the company’s security team on numerous occasions. The result of the hacking was innocuous, but a lot of people are going to get chastised at Facebook’s headquarters…
Khalil, a Palestinian white hat hacker, submitted bug reports to Facebook about a vulnerability that allowed him to post on anyone’s wall. But Facebook’s security team didn’t do anything. So Khalil wrote on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall about it and was generally a badass. Khalil explains on his blog that he submitted a full description of…
We’ve all heard that we’re made of the same stuff as stars so it probably doesn’t seem as mind blowing as it used to. But it really is amazing. Science! This infographic from Visually shades the periodic table to show which elements are presents in the ocean, a person, the atmosphere and more. It also…
When I joined Gmail in 2007 the concept of eliminating deleter’s regret changed how I managed all of my data. I went from keeping important things and purging everything else to implementing archive mentality in my whole life. Now I only think twice about keeping huge photo dumps or files larger than about 500MB. Other…
Master Lego builder James Pegrum chronicled over 4,000 years of British history, beginning with the building of Stonehenge to Maggie Thatcher’s first day at 10 Downing Street, all with Lego. From Boudicca to Guy Fawkes, these are iconic moments in the history of Britain as only Lego could show them. Each segment in the still-running…
It already feels like time for I Love The 10s. There’s plenty of throwback material. Example: Inception. Alternate example: Gangnam Style. And Taio Cruz would definitely make the cut for Break Your Heart and Dynamite. But he also apparently exists in the here and now. And he made a social network called KeWe (pronounced kiwi).…
Online instructional courses or web training can be boring. So that’s where any distraction ever comes in. Learning! But the online training company Mindflash is offering a new feature for their iPad services that ensures actual focus and participation. No reading Gizmodo allowed. FocusAssist uses the iPad’s camera to track user eye movements. If users…
Watercolors are a compelling medium because their aesthetic is the product of multiple variables. The pigment, the surface and, of course, water play into every unique stroke. But design engineer Kenichi Yoneda is using openFrameworks to create digital watercolors. And they look organically beautiful. Kenichi has replicated the aesthetic of other media, like pencil drawing,…
There are always those greedy people who would wish for more wishes from a genie. They’re what’s wrong with this whole internet fairy tale. And now they’re using malware developed for pilfering credit card numbers to give out likes and followers on Instagram. For a price, of course. According to RSA, the security division of…
Kinja user Kseth works at the Target store in Fargo, North Dakota. A few weeks ago he witnessed an absurd event starring an anti-gay Christian customer and a fellow employee regarding Target’s gay marriage cards. Pathetic. Sad. Dumb—all those adjectives apply. Have a good story for Kinja’s front page? Submit your Kinja post here. https://criticalhitrecords.kinja.com/woman-protests-target-selling-gay-marriage-greeting-car-1156124792
A few weeks ago, I asked you all what the best song to type to was. And you, dear Gizmodo readers, churned out an awesome list. Between the folks who jumped in on Spotify and the ones who jumped in the discussion, we got a pretty good collection, and here it is in one big…
Deep below the Pacific Ocean, dozens of WWII pilots are lying in watery graves, still inside the aircraft took them across the sky decades ago. It’s far too late for a rescue, but as Popular Science explains, the people behind the BentProp Project—and their undersea drones—are surfacing these soldiers’ incredible history. From Popular Science: Last…
This strangely beautifully and claustrophobic island city is Male, the capital of the Maldives. Like the rest of the archipelago and other cities around the world, it may disappear soon thanks to climate change. Photo by Shutterstock https://architizer.kinja.com/cities-threatened-by-climate-change-1126510670
There are tens of thousands of tricks to make your life better and easier at Lifehacker, but you only need these ten simple graphical cheat sheets to remember the most essential ones. https://lifehacker.com/top-10-infographics-and-cheat-sheets-that-make-life-eas-1154316001
Wikileaks has stirred up its share of trouble in its day, but it might be up to something more. The site’s been posting links to a trio of encrypted files pretty insistently on Facebook, and one of them is a whopping 349GB. What’s in there? It’s not uncommon for Wikileaks to post an encrypted “insurance”…
By the time you’re ready for a new phone, it can feel like the whole world has changed. But still, there’s bound to be just one feature you lust for, one beautiful glowing feature that’s just out of reach on your current hunk of junk. The one that will inevitably decide your next phone. What…
If you like guns, not being shot, and sitting, there’s a new product on the market that is right up your extremely narrow alley. Meet Couchbunker: the ~$7,000 bulletproof sofa that’s also a toy box for your guns. From the makers of Bedbunker, Couchbunker is just begging to be your 40-rifle, living room gun safe…
Step 1: Sit down at your table in this fake boat restaurant. Step 2: Catch your favorite living fish from the water stream surrounding your table. Step 3: Feel it palpitate down your throat as you’re eating it. If you don’t like your sushi that fresh, here are nine more weird Tokyo restaurants picked by…
It’s easy to forget that owning something digitally is way different from owning it for real. And if you do forget, it can bite you in the ass. That’s what happened to Jim O’Donnell when he traveled into Singapore and found that Google Play Books app on his iPad had up and deleted all his…
Hyperloop week! And as if that wasn’t exciting enough, plenty of other things went out of their ways to happen to. Area 51 is declassified! Google’s DNS server had a freakout! We found out about carrots and Nazis and lying! Woz saw Jobs! Check it out! Right now! Ahhhh! I Quit Cable 2.5 Years Ago.…
