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Netflix DIY smart socks can stop your binge-watching when you fall asleep

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What do you get if you combine an Arduino, knitting, a fair amount of DIY chutzpah, and a genetic and/or epigenetic predisposition towards falling asleep while watching TV? Netflix socks, of course.

A few months ago, some enterprising types at Netflix created The Switch—essentially a single button to dim the lights, silence your mobile phone, order takeaway, and start streaming your favourite show or film. Netflix shared the schematics and parts list for The Switch so that you could make your own.

Now they’ve done it again with a pair of socks that automatically pauses your stream if you fall asleep.

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Mac bug makes rootkit injection as easy as falling asleep

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Respected Apple hacker Pedro Vilaça has uncovered a low-level zero day vulnerability in Mac computers that allows privileged users to more easily install EFI rootkits. Vilaça says the attack, first thought to be an extension of previous research rather …
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Android’s Bouncer malware protection is asleep at the job, researchers say – VentureBeat

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Android's Bouncer malware protection is asleep at the job, researchers say
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We've been in touch with the Android security team and will be working with them to address some of the problems we've discovered.” Hacks like these are to be expected, especially for new security mechanisms, so we're fortunate that Oberheide and …

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