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AltStore is an alternative iOS App Store that works without a jailbreak, using a developer feature for sideloading test apps, and has its own Nintendo emulator (Nick Statt/The Verge)

Nick Statt / The Verge: AltStore is an alternative iOS App Store that works without a jailbreak, using a developer feature for sideloading test apps, and has its own Nintendo emulator  —  And anyone can download it, no jailbreak required  —  Riley Testut, an iOS app developer who has for years worked … AltStore is

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Total digital privacy is impossible, but obfuscation, the intentional shrouding of identity with useless information, can be a compromise (The MIT Press Reader)

The MIT Press Reader: Total digital privacy is impossible, but obfuscation, the intentional shrouding of identity with useless information, can be a compromise  —  Those who know about us have power over us.  Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon.  —  Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person … Total digital

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Total digital privacy is impossible, but obfuscation, the intentional shrouding of identity with useless information, can be a compromise (The MIT Press Reader)

{$inline_image} The MIT Press Reader: Total digital privacy is impossible, but obfuscation, the intentional shrouding of identity with useless information, can be a compromise  —  Those who know about us have power over us.  Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon.  —  Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person … Total

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A Crane Fit For Any Workshop

Sometimes we will encounter items in our workshops that are a little bigger than we bargained for. An engine block, an anvil, or a particularly substantial machine tool. Lifting these things may be possible, but doing so risks injury, perhaps a hernia or worse. For these moments a particularly well-appointed workshop will include a small

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Veeva Systems, a cloud services provider focused on the life sciences industry, acquires Crossix, a patient data and analytics platform, for $430M (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Veeva Systems, a cloud services provider focused on the life sciences industry, acquires Crossix, a patient data and analytics platform, for $430M  —  Crossix makes a patient data and analytics platform used by pharmaceutical marketers.  —  Veeva Systems, a key life sciences industry cloud player … Veeva Systems, a cloud services

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Logitech agrees to acquire Streamlabs, which makes the popular live streaming app Streamlabs OBS, for $89M cash; Streamlabs is used by 15M+ streamers (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Logitech agrees to acquire Streamlabs, which makes the popular live streaming app Streamlabs OBS, for $89M cash; Streamlabs is used by 15M+ streamers  —  The hardware maker gets game live streaming software  —  Logitech has agreed to acquire Streamlabs, which makes the popular live streaming … Logitech agrees to acquire

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Public benefit corporation Summer, a platform to streamline student loan payments and debt forgiveness, raises $10M Series A led by QED Investors (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch)

Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: Public benefit corporation Summer, a platform to streamline student loan payments and debt forgiveness, raises $10M Series A led by QED Investors  —  $1.5 trillion.  That’s the amount of outstanding student loan debt held by American citizens according to the New York Fed. Public benefit corporation Summer, a platform to streamline

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