You’ve had a long day at work and couldn’t be bothered to stop by the grocery store. Your belly is making all sorts of sounds and it’s time you made dinner. The kitchen cabinets only contains three things: onion, tuna and tomatoes. Now you could either ring your mum and ask for cooking suggestions or spend 20mins on Google looking for a recipe. Both options don’t seem that appealing, there must be a better way, and there is with Spanish food brandGaliina Blanca....

Researchers from Germany’s University of Ulmhave identifiedprocesses which could potentially allow attackers to hijack tokens used to access calendars, contacts and a number of other services available within Google’s Android operating system, affecting as many as 99% of mobile phones running the software. Access to these services revolves around a weakness in how Google’s ClientLogin authentication protocol is implemented, sending authentication tokens in cleartext once a user enters a valid username and password to access a particular service....

Have you ever checked your Twitter timeline and wondered what on Earth everyone was talking about? You step away for a few hours and suddenly your timeline is filled with people swapping memes about an event you’ve completely missed. Westudied these “memetic moments”to understand how memes emerge quickly and spontaneously in response to key social events. We found they move even faster than we had thought, sometimes emerging, spreading wildly, and beginning to dissolve in less than a day....

Did you know Neural istaking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! An NYU researcher who was shut out of Facebook has taken her fight for transparency to the US Congress. During Congressional testimony on Tuesday, Laura Edelson, who investigates online ads and misinformation, called for new data requirements and legal protections for researchers....

Please see update at the bottom of the post. Just weeks after Microsoft announced it hadacquired Skype for $8.5 billion, a Russian researcher has announced that he has successfully been able to reverse engineer the official Skype desktop implementation in an attempt to make the service open source. Efim Bushmanov, the man behind the project, set up aBlogspot blogto post his findings and to share the binaries that he had extracted, calling for other developers to join the project and help him completely reverse engineer the software....