Notices by HN Tooter (hntooter@mastodon.social), page 2

Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2019-02-01.html

(submitted by air7)

Less beef, more beans. Experts say world needs a new diet
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/planetary-health-diet-1.4981264

(submitted by pseudolus)

DuckDuckGo now fingerprinting visitors
https://forums.whonix.org/t/duckduckgo-now-fingerprinting-visitors/6497

(submitted by MikusR)

Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/technology/weather-channel-app-lawsuit.html

(submitted by lnguyen)

Photos China Doens't Want You to See by Photojournalist Who Vanished in China
https://www.demilked.com/missing-photographer-lu-guang/

(submitted by adamnemecek)

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

(submitted by jbegley)

Links of critical resources on Bitcoin, blockchain and other money controversies
http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2018/12/24/link-list-part-5/

(submitted by glovink)

LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware
https://blog.apnic.net/2018/12/18/librerouter-powering-community-networks-with-free-and-open-hardware/

(submitted by xuande)

Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-black-hole-interiors-grow-forever-20181206/

(submitted by pavel_lishin)

The Oil Price Is Now Controlled by Just Three Men
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-18/bin-salman-trump-and-putin-control-the-oil-price-now

(submitted by jonbaer)

Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematician-finds-smallest-universal-cover-20181115/

(submitted by Pharmakon)

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
https://spectator.us/robots-ancient-greeks-loved-alexa/

(submitted by diodorus)

How the U.S. Systematically Puts Black Farmers Out of Business
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/30/america-black-farmers-louisiana-sugarcane?src=longreads

(submitted by animo)

Twitter is being investigated over data collection in its link-shortening system
https://theblogroom.com/twitter-being-investigated-collection-data-link-shortening-system/

(submitted by Korosh)

The Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics [pdf]
https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/sites/ca.institute-for-quantum-computing/files/uploads/files/mathematics_qm_v21.pdf

(submitted by sajid)

Silicon Valley, we have a problem
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/01/20/the-techlash-against-amazon-facebook-and-google-and-what-they-can-do

(submitted by known)

Google remotely activated battery saving mode on multiple people's phones today
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/9fkrvw/is_anyone_elses_power_saving_mode_turning_itself/e5xl907/

(submitted by remir)

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest
https://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html

(submitted by peter_d_sherman)

Google can track surfing habits without need for HTTP Cookies
https://youbroketheinternet.org/trackedanyway

(submitted by walterbell)

Tracking animals from space could predict earthquakes on the ground
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/wild-tracking-animals-space-could-predict-earthquakes-ground-ncna903311

(submitted by jonbaer)