Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review: Anti-abortion activists are using license plate tracking and body cameras to collect data on people arriving at clinics for prosecutions post-Roe v. Wade — Body cams and license plates are already being used to track people arriving at abortion clinics. — The Supreme Court […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
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Kate Brumback / Associated Press: CISA says Dominion’s voting machines used in at least 16 states have nine vulnerabilities that have not been exploited, and suggests mitigation measures — ATLANTA (AP) — Electronic voting machines from a leading vendor used in at least 16 states have software vulnerabilities that leave […]
Bloomberg: Filings and holdings data at the end of April show Fidelity Investments cut the valuation of Instacart by 50%, Reddit by 33%, ByteDance by 13% and Stripe by 13% — Fidelity Investments cut valuations for several closely held technology companies, including social media platform Reddit and payment software provider […]
David Pierce / The Verge: Hands-on with Murena One, a privacy-focused $369 Android smartphone, which dumps all Google apps and services with its own custom apps — /e/OS does a lot, but it can’t fix the ecosystem — An Android phone without Google. No Google apps, no Google Play Services, […]
Ariel Shapiro / The Verge: Podcasts hosted on Spotify-owned Megaphone were unavailable for over eight hours on Monday night and early Tuesday morning due to an expired SSL certificate — Podcasts hosted on Megaphone were unavailable on Spotify and other apps for eight hours — Podcast listeners could not access […]
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Meta says it will change its stock ticker symbol to “META” prior to the market open on June 9 — – Meta announced Tuesday that it will change its stock ticker symbol to “META” prior to market open on June 9. — Facebook rebranded to Meta […]
Atlas VPN: Safari now has an estimated 1B+ users, making it the second browser to pass the milestone, behind Chrome’s 3.37B+, but ahead of Edge’s 212M+ and Firefox’s 179M+ — Browsers can connect you to any place on the internet. It retrieves and renders data to show it nicely on […]
Enlarge / A negative stain electron micrograph of a monkeypox virus virion in human vesicular fluid. (credit: Getty | BSIP) The multinational monkeypox outbreak continues to pose a low risk to the general public, and, for now, it seems unlikely that cases will mushroom into a global pandemic, according to […]
Enlarge / US and Texas flags flying outside the Texas State Capitol building in Austin. (credit: Getty Images | PA Thompson) The US Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the Texas law that prohibits social media companies from moderating content based on a user’s “viewpoint.” Today’s Supreme Court order came about […]
Enlarge / A sign in front of a Broadcom office on June 03, 2021, in San Jose, California. (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan ) Broadcom announced last week that it was seeking to drop $61 billion in cash and stock to acquire VMware. We still don’t know exactly what […]