We’ve seen Rick and Morty in Claymation form before, but never in a standalone Claymation short—until now. That’s all thanks to Lee Hardcastle, the animator who created a string of sci-fi parodies for the smash-hit series before Adult Swim tapped him to create this year’s Halloween special.
A team of researchers has detected a trio of near-Earth asteroids in the inner solar system, one of which is the largest found since 2014 that poses a potential risk to the planet. The asteroids remained undetected until now because they occupy a region of the sky hidden by the Sun’s glare.
You may trust Chegg with your textbooks or tutoring, but regulators aren’t quite so confident. The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint accusing education tech provider Chegg of “careless” security practices that compromised personal data since 2017. Among the violations, the company reportedly exposed sensitive info for roughly 40 million customers in 2018 after a former contractor used their login to access a third-party database. The content included names, email addresses, passwords and even content like religion, sexual orientation and parents’ income ranges. The info eventually turned up for sale through the online black market.
Some of the stolen info belonged to employees. Chegg exposed Social Security numbers, medical data and other worker details.
The FTC further alleges Chegg failed to use “commercially reasonable” safeguards. It reportedly let employees and contractors use a single sign-in, didn’t require multi-factor authentication and didn’t scan for threats. The firm stored personal data in plain text and relied on “outdated and weak” encryption for passwords, the Commission adds. Officials also say Chegg didn’t even have a written security policy until January 2021, and didn’t provide sufficient security training despite three phishing attacks.
Chegg has agreed to honor a proposed order to make amends, the FTC says. The company will have to both define the information it collects and limit the scope of that collection. It will institute multi-factor authentication and a “comprehensive” security program that includes encryption and security training. Customers will have access to their data, and will be allowed to ask Chegg to delete that data.
We’ve asked Chegg for comment. However, it’s not alone in facing government crackdowns over security problems. Uber settled with the Justice Department in July for failing to notify customers of a major 2016 data breach, while the FTC recently penalized Drizly and its CEO for alleged lapses that led to a 2020 incident. The government is clearly eager to prevent data breaches and make an example of companies with sub-par security measures.
In his new book, the former vice president recalled the day Trump put Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell in charge of his legal strategy.
Actor/PC gamer Henry Cavill said that he’ll be rebuilding his gaming rig with a new PSU, motherboard, and GPU. Here’s why he may or may not choose the RTX 4090.
Jobs can get monotonous real quick, depending on what you’re doing. One of the best remedies is music, and a good Bluetooth jobsite radio can help with that.
Twitter has been under Elon Musk’s leadership for only a weekend, but already another internet juggernaut is talking about making an alternative of his own.
Google implemented Incognito mode on Chrome for whenever the need arises to do some “private” browsing, and it’s pretty easy to get started on Android.
Eiichiro Oda’s pirate manga One Piece has been around for a long time—longer than a good amount of its fanbase has been alive, even—but it feels like it’s only recently become a mainstream anime juggernaut. It has broken the Guinness world record for being the best-selling manga of all time, and its anime adaptation…
Slowly but surely, the way we view labor is changing across the world. From the world’s largest four-day work week experiment to the growing number of unionization attempts occurring at major corporations, our world’s workforce is demanding to be seen and heard. On November 1, a new law will finally go into effect in…
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