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Airbnb had more US bookings from May 17 to June 3 than during the same period in 2019, as vacation-rental sites see domestic reservations increase globally — - Weekend getaways are turning into work-from-home respites — Airbnb hasn't ruled out an IPO this year, CEO Chesky says
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Brave browser is caught revising typed-in domains to companies like Binance with URLs including affiliate referral codes; Brave says it will stop the practice — Brave, the crypto-friendly, privacy-first browser has been earning affiliate commissions by redirecting certain search queries to crypto companies via affiliate links.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Study of kids, aged 4 to 15 in the US, UK, and Spain, finds they spent an average of 85 min/day on YouTube and 80 min/day on TikTok from Feb. 2019-April 2020 — A new study on kids' app usage and habits indicates a major threat to YouTube's dominance, as kids now split their time between … | Rana Foroohar / Financial Times: |
To remain this big and unregulated, Facebook aligns itself with powers that be, as its actions in Myanmar and now in the US show — To stay this big and unregulated, the social media platform can't afford to upset rulers — Oligarchs are immoral business leaders who …
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
The struggle between real information and fake information is not too different from the fight against spam email, which took a long time but was worth fighting — To put it mildly, the last ten days have been tough to watch. Following the news triggers anger, and it makes me feel ashamed.| Stephanie Wykstra / Undark Magazine: |
After rolling out a flawed automated system in 2014, Michigan falsely charged thousands with unemployment fraud and collected millions in fines — REPUBLISH … I N 2014, Carmelita Colvin was living just north of Detroit and taking classes at a local college, when she received a letter …
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Overall, remote learning this spring didn't work: schools disagree on fair student assessment, students lack equal access to technology, teaching got harder — The pandemic forced schools into a crash course in online education. Problems piled up quickly. ‘I find it hectic and stressful’| Chen Du / PingWest: |
Sources: ByteDance has recently implemented a restriction on employees in China from accessing code bases for overseas products like TikTok — ByteDance has been erecting technical firewalls between its China and global operations for more than a year, PingWest has learned …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Israeli court sentences the co-owners of vDOS, a now defunct DDoS-for-hire service, to six months of community service — The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) …
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| Sai Krishna Kothapalli / InfoSec Write-ups: |
Researcher describes how hundreds of medical imaging servers in India were left unsecured months ago and are still leaving 1M+ medical records exposed — The story behind how I was able to view, edit & delete classified personal information of lakhs of patients all over India
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| Fahmida Y Rashid / IEEE Spectrum: |
Q&A: web cryptography pioneers Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk on recent advances in authentication tech, and what the future could look like — Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk were instrumental in shaping how the Internet works. Now they're looking at what's next for web security.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Three Amazon workers file lawsuit alleging that Amazon has failed to adequately protect workers from COVID-19 by not following CDC's contact tracing guidelines — - A lawsuit filed by three Amazon workers calls into question the company's contact tracing efforts.
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| Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review: |
Google Docs is a key tool for organizing protests, as activists anonymously edit public lists of funds, charities, books on racism, and letter-writing templates — Facebook and Twitter might have the bells and whistles, but the word processing doc's simplicity and accessibility have made it a winning tool.
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