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NY State launches first US “vaccine passport” app, Excelsior Pass, built on IBM's blockchain-based health pass platform, to be used initially at large venues — Starting Friday, New Yorkers will be able to pull up a code on their cell phone or a printout to prove they've …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Inside BitClout, the controversial service that tokenizes Twitter personalities, mostly without permission, and has $170M worth of BTC raised from a16z, others — Diamondhands greets me on the encrypted messaging app Signal. He can see me over video, but his own video is turned off …
Tweets: @martinsfp, @readdanwrite, @twittner, @jeffjohnroberts, @arrington, and @_prestwich
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 14.4.2 and iOS 12.5.2 to fix a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability in WebKit that “may have been actively exploited” — Apple today released iOS 14.4.2 for iPhone and iPad, and watchOS 7.3.3 for Apple Watch. The updates includes an important security fix for WebKit …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon is pursuing an increasingly aggressive PR strategy, picking fights with Democratic politicians such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Twitter — Who is Amazon trying to convince? — Amazon is intensifying its bizarre online public relations strategy of picking increasingly petty …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
A look at Google's two-decade quest to compete with Amazon, as it now tries to present itself as a cheaper and less restrictive option for independent sellers — Google presents itself to independent sellers as cheaper and less restrictive. But it is not clear whether it can change people's habits of going straight to Amazon.
Tweets: @bgurley, @hakana, @glenngabe, and @halsinger
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
As Moore's Law slows down, a look at 2D materials like graphene, which is already being used to create flexible electronics and could replace silicon in chips — After more than a half-century of making microchips in more or less the same way, profound changes are coming — Silicon is pretty great.
Tweets: @sandtcasb, @pauldaugh, @deep29jariwala, @vijay_r_kumar, @mims, @mims, and @mims
| Wall Street Journal: |
Interviews and documents reveal that in the year before his death, Tony Hsieh was surrounded by people who lived off his fortune and enabled his risky lifestyle — The group that surrounded the late Zappos boss helped sustain his drug habit, protected him from outsiders and lived off his largess
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with NYT's Kevin Roose on his new book Futureproof, how robotic process automation might replace some white-collar jobs, Microsoft Excel TikTok, and more — As the editor-in-chief of The Verge, I can theoretically assign whatever I want. However, there is one topic I have failed …
Tweets: @kevinroose, @mzagaja, @reckless, @themaholupper, and @trentlmoore
| Reggie Ugwu / New York Times: |
A look at Google's hands-off content moderation approach for Google Podcasts, where hate speech from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups is easy to find — The platform's tolerance of white supremacist, pro-Nazi and conspiracy theory content pushes the boundaries of the medium.| Lisa Ward / Wall Street Journal: |
Amid a shortage of therapists, experts discuss how AI can make mental health treatment cheaper and accessible, its privacy concerns, product efficacy, and more — Three experts discuss the promise—and problems—of relying on algorithms for our mental health — Could artificial intelligence reduce the need for human therapists?
Tweets: @kfury, @evasmartai, and @wsj
| Aaron Sankin / The Markup: |
How Digital Advertising Alliance's AdChoices tool, which launched in 2010 to let users opt out of personalized ads, is undermined by its cookie-based approach — Let's just say it leaves a lot to be desired — Last year, while reporting a story about how the digital advertising industry burrowed …
Tweets: @themarkup, @paulnemitz, @juliaangwin, @justinbrookman, and @snowjake
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says 92% of vulnerable Exchange servers have been patched/mitigated, and reiterates that patches do not necessarily remove the access of the attacker — If you're cleaning up a infected Exchange server, you need to look for traces of multiple threats, warns Microsoft.
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