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    • Twice this week, traffic to 200+ of the world's largest CDNs and cloud hosts was redirected through Russia's telco Rostelecom in likely BGP hijacking attacks (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Twice this week, traffic to 200+ of the world’s largest CDNs and cloud hosts was redirected through Russia’s telco Rostelecom in likely BGP hijacking attacks  —  Rostelecom involved in BGP hijacking incident this week impacting more than 200 CDNs and cloud providers. Twice this week, traffic to 200+ of the world's

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    • Skype no longer requires video call participants to have an account or to download software, letting users join a call via a link, similar to Zoom (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)

    Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: Skype no longer requires video call participants to have an account or to download software, letting users join a call via a link, similar to Zoom  —  Microsoft has made some nice improvements to its Skype video call service.  Starting today, users don’t need to sign up for an account …

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    Hackaday Links: April 5, 2020

    Git is powerful, but with great power comes the ability to really bork things up. When you find yourself looking at an inscrutable error message after an ill-advised late-night commit, it can be a maximum pucker-factor moment, and keeping a clear enough head to fix the problem can be challenging. A little proactive social engineering

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    • Tim Cook says Apple has now sourced 20M+ masks for healthcare workers from its supply chain, has designed and is shipping face shields at a rate of 1M per week (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

    Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Tim Cook says Apple has now sourced 20M+ masks for healthcare workers from its supply chain, has designed and is shipping face shields at a rate of 1M per week  —  Tim Cook is back with another update on Apple’s ongoing efforts to help healthcare professionals amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Tim

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    • Report: the live streaming e-commerce market in China saw more than $61B in transactions in 2019 and is expected to double this year due to the pandemic (Xinmei Shen/Abacus)

    Xinmei Shen / Abacus: Report: the live streaming e-commerce market in China saw more than $61B in transactions in 2019 and is expected to double this year due to the pandemic  —  Buyers like the experience of seeing the products in live-streamed video, but they also worry about false marketing and scams Report: the live

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    DIY Closed-Cell Silicone Foam

    {$inline_image} Most of us have a junk drawer, full of spare parts yanked from various places, but also likely stocked with materials we bought for a project but didn’t use completely. Half a gallon of wood glue, a pile of random, scattered resistors, or in [Ken]’s case, closed-cell silicone foam. Wanting to avoid this situation

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    • In internal email lists Amazon corporate employees express dismay over the firing of Christian Smalls and a report that management discussed a plan to smear him (Vox)

    Vox: In internal email lists Amazon corporate employees express dismay over the firing of Christian Smalls and a report that management discussed a plan to smear him  —  Leaked internal emails show employee dismay over how their company is handling escalating labor disputes during the coronavirus pandemic. In internal email lists Amazon corporate employees express

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