This Week’s Links (weekly)

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

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Linked – How to Use the Feynman Technique to Identify Pseudoscience

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

“I finally figured out a way to test whether you have taught an idea or you have only taught a definition. Test it this way: You say, ‘Without using the new word which you have just learned, try to rephrase what you have just learned in your own language. Without using the word “energy,” tell…

Linked – At Black Hat, mental health is new focus for cybersecurity workers
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Linked – At Black Hat, mental health is new focus for cybersecurity workers

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Good!!! “At this week’s Black Hat cybersecurity conference, panels about hacking automobiles and airplane WiFi are being interspersed with a new focus: mental health.” I don’t work in cybersecurity, but I know people who do, and the long hours and stress many of them have to deal with is off the charts. This has probably…

Linked – Connected Homes and Cars Can be Difficult for New Buyers to Un-Plug
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Linked – Connected Homes and Cars Can be Difficult for New Buyers to Un-Plug

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I guess this is a really good reason to never buy a used smart device, right? In a recent blog post, An IoT Love Story: Always Apart, Never Disconnected, Henderson shared the personal story of what happened when he sold his convertible a few years ago. Henderson was connected to that car via a mobile…

Linked – Tech-support scammers revive bug that sends Chrome users into a panic
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Linked – Tech-support scammers revive bug that sends Chrome users into a panic

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Never, ever. “The most important thing to remember when encountering a browser window displaying a tech-support scam message is to not panic and to never call the phone numbers displayed. When all else fails, the browsers can almost always be unlocked by using the Windows Task Manager (control-alt-delete) or the macOS Force Quit feature (Apple…

Linked – Social Network Algorithms Are Distorting Reality By Boosting Conspiracy Theories
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Linked – Social Network Algorithms Are Distorting Reality By Boosting Conspiracy Theories

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

“The problem is that social-web activity is notorious for an asymmetry of passion. On many issues, the most active social media voices are the conspiracist fringe. The majority of people know that vaccines don’t cause autism, and that 9/11 was not an inside job. They don’t dedicate hours to creating content or tweeting to reinforce…

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