A security researcher said she was able to access several internal FIFA platforms due to a simple security flaw, which allowed her to watch and have full control of the TV stream of every World Cup game. The researcher, who goes by BobDaHacker, said she simply registered as a player agent on FIFA's official agent registration platform. Then, thanks to having that account and a flaw in FIFA's back-end API, which didn't check if a user actually had the proper authorization, she was able to access several internal FIFA platforms. This included the system that allows broadcasters to control what gets displayed on people's TVs across the world, and what gets displayed on commentators' screens as they narrate the match, per the researcher. Get an inside look at what it takes to scale and succeed from leaders at Mach Industries, Founders Fund, and Shinkei Systems. Through candid fireside chats and high-impact networking, you'll walk away with valuable insights and new connections....
Thousands of human and animal subjects are being assessed in large replication studies. Getty/From L'R: top: Alastair Pollock; Volanthevist; Retales Botijero; Beata Whitehead. Middle: Anita Kot; Laura Mckenzie Waters; Sritanan; Jamie Grill. Bottom: Allen Chen; Henrik Sorensen; Emilija Manevska; StockImages_AT. Baby Zoe sits on her mother's lap and watches a puppet show featuring three shapes with googly eyes. A red circle struggles to climb a steep hill until a blue square helps it with a push. A yellow triangle blocks the way and shoves the red circle down the hill. When the show is over, Zoe is offered a choice of puppets. She doesn't hesitate: she ignores the unkind yellow triangle and makes a grab for the helpful blue square. The scene, from a Netflix documentary series released in 2020, recreates a highly cited 2007 study1, which found that babies as young as six months old overwhelmingly prefer characters who help, rather than hinder, others. On the basis of these findings, developmental psychologist Kiley Hamlin, now at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, concluded that the ability to evaluate others' behaviour develops before speech, and could be a biological adaptation....
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Welcome back to The Daily's Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what's keeping them entertained. Today's special guest is Michael Scherer, a staff writer who has covered how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the most powerful man in science and the challenge that rising political violence poses to journalists; he has also done a sit-down interview with Donald Trump about his political comeback. Michael's recommendations include reading any piece of writing from George Will, whom he considers to be the preeminent political columnist; listening to electronic-music sets on SoundCloud; and watching the late climber Dean Potter's miraculous ascents in The Dark Wizard. Something delightful introduced to me by a kid in my life: I thought my generation had played out the self-referential wink-wink with shows such as Scrubs and Arrested Development. Then a representative of Gen Z showed me the Netflix live-action show One Piece, a rollicking pirate tale that is pulled from manga, and that is also a '90s teen sitcom, a high-school theater production, and a fantasy-canon blender. The sets make Disneyland look real, and the acting is the opposite of method. The kids fire muskets and swing katanas in printed T-shirts and plastic jewelry. None of it made sense, until I realized that playing with the expectations of genre remains a great way to celebrate the timelessness of youth. (For a counterpoint, the self-appointed theologian Peter Thiel has other thoughts on One Piece's insights on the Antichrist.)...
