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Parler says it is now accessible for existing users and will accept new signups from next week, announces Tea Party activist Mark Meckler as interim CEO (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Parler says it is now accessible for existing users and will accept new signups from next week, announces Tea Party activist Mark Meckler as interim CEO  —  An Amazon suspension shut it down in January  —  The alternative social network Parler has reopened after a month offline. Parler says it

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Clubhouse, which centralizes creation and consumption into a feedback loop, will do for audio what Twitter, Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Clubhouse, which centralizes creation and consumption into a feedback loop, will do for audio what Twitter, Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video  —  Manage your Stratechery subscription.  —  To what extent are new companies, particularly those in new spaces, pushed versus pulled into existence? Clubhouse, which centralizes creation

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Scientists use AI to identify existing drugs to fight COVID-19

Scientists have used machine learning to find drugs already on the market that could also fight COVID-19 in elderly patients. “Making new drugs takes forever,” said study co-author Caroline Uhler, a computational biologist at MIT. “Really, the only expedient option is to repurpose existing drugs.” The study team searched for potential treatments by analyzing changes to

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[Thread] A breakdown of significant issues with Bloomberg's recent Supermicro story, which may have relied on misunderstandings of an FBI briefing by a source (@pwnallthethings)

@pwnallthethings: [Thread] A breakdown of significant issues with Bloomberg’s recent Supermicro story, which may have relied on misunderstandings of an FBI briefing by a source  —  tl;dr is a source misunderstood an FBI defensive briefing on China’s supply chain activities, leaked it to the press, and bloomberg has *again* failed to do the work necessary

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Early 0-day exploit brokers, some active in the late 90s, share stories about a nascent industry that became key to espionage, organized crime, and war planning (Nicole Perlroth/Wired)

Nicole Perlroth / Wired: Early 0-day exploit brokers, some active in the late 90s, share stories about a nascent industry that became key to espionage, organized crime, and war planning  —  The lucrative business of dealing in code vulnerabilities is central to espionage and war planning, which is why brokers never spoke about it—until now.

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