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LookAtThatBacon··on Bay Area engineer poisoned by coworker speaks out after felony expunged
Some key points:

> Yuan decided to install a small camera at her desk.

> The camera captured a co-worker, David Xu, pouring a substance into her water bottle.

> Testing later identified the substance as cadmium, a toxic chemical.

> Xu was charged with premeditated attempted murder in 2019.

> In a plea agreement, he pleaded guilty to poisoning and received two years of probation.

> Almost ten years after, Yuan said she continues to experience health issues after ingesting the chemical for more than a year and is able to work only part time.

> She said she requested $500,000 in restitution, but received $7,000.

LookAtThatBacon··on Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows' New Recall AI
This stood out to me:

"Dubbed TotalRecall—yes, after the 1990 sci-fi film—the tool can pull all the information that Recall saves into its main database on a Windows laptop. “The database is unencrypted. It’s all plain text,” Hagenah says."

LookAtThatBacon··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
They killed Alien Blue to create the objectively worse Reddit app, despite the aforementioned funding and presumably skilled devs working there.
LookAtThatBacon··on Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency
For anyone wondering why 3AC becoming insolvent is such a big deal, this Twitter thread does a fair job of summarizing:

https://twitter.com/hodlKRYPTONITE/status/153690211554074214...

Basically, they're a large crypto fund that has borrowed from almost every major crypto lender, and if they can't cover their margin calls (which is expected if they're insolvent), the risk of the debt is then transferred to the lenders themselves.

LookAtThatBacon··on LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
Reminder to everyone that one of the private equity firms that acquired LogMeIn and took it private, Francesco Partners, holds a majority stake in NSO Group, an Israeli spyware developer.
LookAtThatBacon··on Imgur Acquired by Medialab
According to their public Statement of Information (https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=04...), the CEO of MediaLab.AI Inc is Michael Heyward, the co-founder of Whisper.
LookAtThatBacon··on Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B
In case you haven't already, you should submit a request to delete all your data as a Mailchimp "Contact" (a "Contact" is a person whose contact info was given to Mailchimp by a Mailchimp "Member"):

https://mailchimp.com/privacy-rights/