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Security firm ZecOps: iOS Mail app's old, unpatched bugs have been exploited against a US Fortune 500 firm, a Japanese telco exec, a journalist in Europe, more (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Security firm ZecOps: iOS Mail app’s old, unpatched bugs have been exploited against a US Fortune 500 firm, a Japanese telco exec, a journalist in Europe, more  —  Hacks that can play out without any user interaction may be more common than we realize, in part because they’re so difficult

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Profile of Ryan Petersen, CEO of freight logistics startup Flexport which raised $1.3B to date and is helping fight COVID-19 by fundraising and delivering PPE (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Profile of Ryan Petersen, CEO of freight logistics startup Flexport which raised $1.3B to date and is helping fight COVID-19 by fundraising and delivering PPE  —  He’s stepped up to lead the war against COVID-19  —  “I didn’t know what the term ‘freight forwarder’ meant until a year into starting the

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Afraid of losing rankings in Amazon search, some suppliers are redirecting a "lion's share" of their products to Amazon, and whatever is left to other retailers (Renee Dudley/ProPublica)

Renee Dudley / ProPublica: Afraid of losing rankings in Amazon search, some suppliers are redirecting a “lion’s share” of their products to Amazon, and whatever is left to other retailers  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Afraid of

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Custom Bluetooth Joystick in a Nunchuk Shell

With the Wii’s unique controller, Nintendo not only provided new gaming experiences to players, but gave hardware hackers a platform for experimentation that’s still going strong. Case in point, this modification of a third party Wii “Nunchuk” by [Giliam de Carpentier] that turns the accessory into a stand-alone wireless controller powered by a ATtiny44A. Milling

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A deep dive into Clubhouse, an invite-only audio-based social network, how it might evolve, and its long-term potential as a business (Nathan Baschez/Divinations)

Nathan Baschez / Divinations: A deep dive into Clubhouse, an invite-only audio-based social network, how it might evolve, and its long-term potential as a business  —  About a month ago I got a DM inviting me to “a community for casual, drop-in audio conversations.”  So I downloaded the app, created a profile, and was greeted

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Germany says it will adopt a decentralized approach to digital contact tracing backed by Apple and Google, abandoning its home-grown alternative (Douglas Busvine/Reuters)

Douglas Busvine / Reuters: Germany says it will adopt a decentralized approach to digital contact tracing backed by Apple and Google, abandoning its home-grown alternative  —  BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany changed course on Sunday over which type of smartphone technology it wanted to use to trace coronavirus infections … Germany says it will adopt a

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