• A billion medical scans are exposed online.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not Elasticsearch for once, but hundreds of individual hospitals and medical practices failing to secure a standard piece of software for sharing diagnostic images.
  
  
  
• Cheaper Ryzen 3000 motherboards are on the way - eventually - unless they aren't.  (WCCFTech)
  
  The B550 and A520 chipsets are in production and expected to show up this quarter.  These are PCIe 3.0 chips, so only the graphics card and first M.2 slot on these motherboard - which will be directly connected to the CPU - will support PCIe 4.0.
  
  
  
• How to write Roguelike games in Rust.  (Bracket Productions)
  
  This is a little more in-depth than the typical article on this sort of topic.
  
  This is a little more in-depth than the typical book on this sort of topic.  66 chapters packed full of details on Rust and Roguelikes.
  
  
  
• How to use attribute tags to get your users' phones to autocomplete 2FA codes sent over SMS.  (Twilio)
  
  
  
• Don't send 2FA codes over SMS.  (Is SMS 2FA Secure?)
  
  
  
• Privacy International tells Google to stop allowing partners to add ununinstallable crap to Android.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  It's bad enough with Google alone.  I have two still-functional Nexus 7 tablets from 2017.  I have to keep removing apps from them (well, to be honest, games) because Google keeps adding new stuff that I can't remove.
  
  
  
• NASA has discovered the first known - uh, that is, second-known - Class M planet.
  
  
  
  
  
• Time to switch (back) to Firefox.  (Digital Trends)
  
  Or possibly one of the three hundred and seventeen other browsers that seem to have suddenly sprung up.
  
  
  
• A Facebook bug exposed who is actually running Facebook pages.  (Wired)
  
  The bug exposed the edit history of posts on pages, which is normally only visible to the page maintainers.
  
  This is something I've worried about with the new system.  Mistakes will happen, so I've designed it so as to make it hard to make mistakes that could leak private data - and also kept the amount of private data to an absolute minimum.  If I don't have your real name or phone number in the first place, I can't leak them no matter what mistakes I make.
  
  

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Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 13 2020 03:21 AM (Iwkd4)

Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 13 2020 03:26 AM (Iwkd4)

3 I guess they expect enough volume on the B550 to make it worthwhile.  It sounds like it's an update to the X470, so not a whole new design.  The X570 is a repurposed Ryzen 3000 I/O chiplet, so it's relatively large and expensive to manufacture.


I've considered flashing some of my older Android devices, but they keep on working, except for the one that doesn't, and that one won't charge so flashing the ROM won't help much. 

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, January 13 2020 10:06 AM (PiXy!)

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