Dominique Luchart's Blog, page 545
November 14, 2021
How Togo, a country where few possess a driver’s license or national ID card, built a digital platform to rapidly disburse relief payments to millions of people (Ted Alcorn/Bloomberg)
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Taproot, the first major upgrade to Bitcoin’s code since the introduction of Segregated Witness in 2017, has been activated (Wolfie Zhao/The Block)
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November 13, 2021
Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have done little to rein in COVID-19 misinformation, escaping the scrutiny social media giants face (New York Times)
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AMD reveals 50 security flaws affecting EPYC processors and its graphics driver for Windows 10; Intel discloses 25 security flaws in its products including CPUs (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
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US states led by Texas file an amended Google lawsuit, providing more details about “Project Bernanke”, which allegedly gave Google’s own ad-buying an advantage (Chris Prentice/Reuters)
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The person claiming responsibility for the FBI email server hack says they were able to send spam messages by abusing insecure code in the FBI’s LEEP portal (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
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WSO2, which offers low-code tools to help businesses, hospitals, schools, and public sector organizations build apps, raises $90M from Goldman Sachs (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)
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Apple agrees to pay its CA store workers $29.9M, settling a 2013 lawsuit for time spent in required security bag checks; Apple dropped the policy in 2015 (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
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Mercury Research: ARM’s market share in PC chips was about 8% in Q3 2021, up from 2% in Q3 2020 when Apple’s ARM-based M1 Macs weren’t on sale (Agam Shah/The Register)
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