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| Cat Ferguson / MIT Technology Review: |
VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems — The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout. Instead, it has been plagued by problems and abandoned by most states.
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US have now partnered with Amazon's Ring, with 1,189 new departments added over the past year — Controversial surveillance network has doubled in size in the country in the past year — More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US …
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How one disgruntled person destroyed the online reputations of 145+ people, aided by “complaint sites” in the US and platforms like Google that rarely intervene — Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock's online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A now-fixed 10-year-old bug in Sudo used in several versions of Linux allowed any local user to gain root access — A now-fixed Sudo vulnerability allowed any local user to gain root privileges on Unix-like operating systems without requiring authentication.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
League of Legends teams in the US recruited 40+ superstar players from Asia since 2016, with an average salary of $460K for a player in a team's starting five — League of Legends teams in the U.S. lag behind their competitors in Asia, so they recruit the world's best players by offering huge salaries.| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Google has reinstated federated chat app Element on the Play Store after briefly pulling it over abusive content, which is now removed, on Element's servers — Element is a popular client for the federated chat protocol Matrix, and we highlighted it in our roundup of the best open-source alternatives …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Canalys: a record 11.2M Chromebooks were shipped in Q4 2020, up 287% YoY, with Lenovo Chromebooks up 1,766%; in 2020, 30.7M Chromebooks were shipped, up 109% — COVID-19 has had a lot of negative effects on the market, but it's been great for the PC market as millions of people transitioned to working and learning from home.
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Engadget, Pocketnow, The Verge, Thurrott, Canalys.com, Android Authority, Huawei Central, Canalys.com, and TechRadar. Tweets: @chr1sa
| Silicon Canals: |
Riverlane, which spun out of Cambridge University, raises $20M Series A led by Draper Esprit to build Deltaflow, its operating system for quantum computers — According to IBM, “Quantum computers can boost the development of new breakthroughs in science, medications to save lives …
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Verdict, The Irish Times, and UKTN
| Evelyn Douek / Lawfare: |
Analysis of the first Oversight Board rulings, which in the long term may influence Facebook moderation rules more than the upcoming decision on Trump ban — After seemingly endless announcements heralding the arrival of the Facebook Oversight Board (FOB) over the past 18 months, the board has …
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Lawfare, OneZero , The Guardian, and Slate
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| Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
A look at the criticism in DC directed at CSET, a State Dept. bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies formed in the last days of Trump's admin — A newly established State Department bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies could give the Biden administration … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SetSail raises $26M Series A for its service that recommends when to pay salespeople, by monitoring the progress of sales across CRM, email, and other systems — SetSail wants to upend the way sales people get compensated by paying them throughout the sales cycle, rather than a single commission after the sale closes.| Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: |
The pandemic has increased the adoption of AR in automotive and other industries, where it is being used to provide remote assistance for employees in real time — Whether to fix cars or apply makeup, companies hamstrung by the pandemic found immediate uses for the distanced expertise AR technology can provide
Tweets: @paulmiller, @william18601495, and @vuzix
| Under the Hood: |
Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the past week, says its clearinghouse-mandated deposit for equities increased tenfold — With the extraordinary market activity this week, and the temporary restrictions we put in place on certain securities …
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
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