The water was cold but it soon warms up when the boys are made of sunshine.
They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.
lways trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.
he thing we know is that humanity has a hundred per cent mortality rate. We all die. But the facts don’t matter – we can’t bear to lose the people we love, and it doesn’t quite register about the billions who die, or even about our own coming deaths. We don’t experience our own death the way we experience the deaths of those we love.
But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could see she felt enlarged by drama and trouble, by the electric pulse of things going wrong, and her vision of the easy life remained in most ways a recurring dream.
A scathing portrait of London, a society steeped in corruption
A scathing portrait of London, a society steeped in corruption By James Ley April 26, 2024
FICTION Caledonian Road Andrew O’Hagan Faber & Faber, $34.99
A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account
404 Media: “A cybersecurity researcher was able to figure out the phone number linked to any Google account, information that is usually not public and is often sensitive, according to the researcher, Google, and 404 Media’s own tests.
The issue has since been fixed but at the time presented a privacy issue in which even hackers with relatively few resources could have brute forced their way to peoples’ personal information.
“I think this exploit is pretty bad since it’s basically a gold mine for SIM swappers,” the independent security researcher who found the issue, who goes by the handle brutecat, wrote in an email. SIM swappers are hackers who take over a target’s phone number in order to receive their calls and texts, which in turn can let them break into all manner of accounts…”
Note via TechCrunch – Google fixes bug that could reveal users’ private phone numbers
The Shocking Amount of Info Google Knows About You
Make Use Of – (and How to Get Rid of It): “If you’ve ever wondered how Google seems to read your mind, the answer lies in its massive and incredibly detailed data collection. You can actually take a look at what Google knows about you—and delete it if you want to clean the slate.
It’s hard to overstate how deeply Google is woven into our lives—and how much it collects along the way. If you use services like Search, YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, or Android (which, let’s face it, covers most people), you’re sharing pieces of your digital life every day. Google knows what you search for, the videos you watch, the places you go, the websites you visit, the apps you use, and even how long you use them.
It records voice commands you give to Google Assistant (if voice activity is enabled), tracks your purchases through email receipts, and builds an advertising profile based on your behavior. Your interests, routines, and even major life events are all stored and analyzed.
Google isn’t necessarily doing anything sinister with this data. But it is collecting far more than most people realize—and doing so constantly. This information isn’t just sitting there. It’s analyzed, categorized, and used to personalize your experience and deliver highly targeted ads…”
