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Re:Bay Area engineer poisoned by coworker speaks out after felony expu...
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:27PM (#50079045)
Some key points:
> Yuan decided to install a small camera at her desk.
> The camera captured a co-worker, David Xu, pouring a substance into her water bottle.
> Testing later identified the substance as cadmium, a toxic chemical.
> Xu was charged with premeditated attempted murder in 2019.
> In a plea agreement, he pleaded guilty to poisoning and received two years of probation.
> Almost ten years after, Yuan said she continues to experience health issues after ingesting the chemical for more than a year and is able to work only part time.
> She said she requested $500,000 in restitution, but received $7,000.
Re:Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself...
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:15PM (#48914645)
Pretty cool feature
Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
Cat Hair Mustache Puzzle
Artemis II astronaut reports that two Outlooks are running and neither works
Unity is threatening to revoke licenses of developers with flawed data
Google, Apple, and Snap aren't happy about Meta's poorly-redacted slides
4chan hacked. Hacker reopens /QA/ and leaks all admins emails
Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons
Re:Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows' New Recall AI
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @08:17PM (#40580229)
This stood out to me:
"Dubbed TotalRecall—yes, after the 1990 sci-fi film—the tool can pull all the information that Recall saves into its main database on a Windows laptop. “The database is unencrypted. It’s all plain text,” Hagenah says."
Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows' New Recall AI
Ask HN: Could Reddit become profitable if it used Craigslist's business model?
- Charging for certain types of posts, such as job/gig postings, apartment listings, car listings, etc while allowing every other type of post for free- Keeping employee headcount low (Craiglist reportedly only has 50 employees, but I'm unsure how up to date that stat is)- Avoiding significant development/infrastructure cost by keeping the UI/UX essentially unchangedOn top of this, I assume...
Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th
on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:40PM (#36248628)
They killed Alien Blue to create the objectively worse Reddit app, despite the aforementioned funding and presumably skilled devs working there.
Thunder Bay police set up 911 email as Canada-wide cellular outage continues
Re:Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency
on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:02PM (#31784978)
For anyone wondering why 3AC becoming insolvent is such a big deal, this Twitter thread does a fair job of summarizing:
https://twitter.com/hodlKRYPTONITE/status/153690211554074214...
Basically, they're a large crypto fund that has borrowed from almost every major crypto lender, and if they can't cover their margin calls (which is expected if they're insolvent), the risk of the debt is then transferred to the lenders themselves.
Re:LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @04:37PM (#29718564)
Reminder to everyone that one of the private equity firms that acquired LogMeIn and took it private, Francesco Partners, holds a majority stake in NSO Group, an Israeli spyware developer.
Re:Imgur Acquired by Medialab
on Monday September 27, 2021 @06:58PM (#28677164)
According to their public Statement of Information (https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=04...), the CEO of MediaLab.AI Inc is Michael Heyward, the co-founder of Whisper.
Re:Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B
on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:53PM (#28516735)
In case you haven't already, you should submit a request to delete all your data as a Mailchimp "Contact" (a "Contact" is a person whose contact info was given to Mailchimp by a Mailchimp "Member"):