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    • Internet Society-supported initiative MANRS has launched Observatory, a web tool for providing insight into how well ISPs comply with routing security standards (Sean Gallagher/Ars Technica)

    Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: Internet Society-supported initiative MANRS has launched Observatory, a web tool for providing insight into how well ISPs comply with routing security standards  —  MANRS Observatory gives a peek inside security issues of Internet routing.  —  When my kids were younger … Internet Society-supported initiative MANRS has launched Observatory, a web

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    • Orthodox Jews from a community in Brooklyn, many of whom lack formal degrees, are making millions from selling on Amazon, balancing traditions and modernity (Leticia Miranda/BuzzFeed News)

    Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed News: Orthodox Jews from a community in Brooklyn, many of whom lack formal degrees, are making millions from selling on Amazon, balancing traditions and modernity  —  A community of Orthodox Jews prospers by selling products on Amazon — and keeping one foot in modernity and one foot out. Orthodox Jews from

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    Portable PS2 With A Side Of Pi

    Home games consoles have occupied a special space in the marketplace over the last 3 decades. The crowning jewels of their respective companies, they inspired legions of diehard fans and bitter enmities against followers of alternative hardware. For some, a mere handheld is a watered down experience that simply won’t do. Nay, the console itself

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    • Leaked documents show MIT Media Lab hid the extent of Jeffrey Epstein's fundraising role, which also involved helping raise $7.5M through donors like Bill Gates (Ronan Farrow/New Yorker)

    Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: Leaked documents show MIT Media Lab hid the extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s fundraising role, which also involved helping raise $7.5M through donors like Bill Gates  —  New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions …

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    • Twitter says the average user with the algorithmic timeline follows 10%-15% more accounts than those who have reverted to the old reverse-chronological timeline (Will Oremus/OneZero)

    Will Oremus / OneZero: Twitter says the average user with the algorithmic timeline follows 10%-15% more accounts than those who have reverted to the old reverse-chronological timeline  —  The algorithm hasn’t fixed harassment, but it did remedy something else  —  t’s hard to remember now, but there was a time … Twitter says the average

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    • Fyllo raises $16M seed round, launches its marketing and analytics platform for the cannabis industry (Sean Czarnecki/PRWeek)

    Sean Czarnecki / PRWeek: Fyllo raises $16M seed round, launches its marketing and analytics platform for the cannabis industry  —  The platform is rolling out with $16 million in seed funding.  —  CHICAGO: When it comes to cannabis regulations, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds.  Enter Fyllo, a marketing technology platform for the

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    • Amazon has done little to improve Goodreads, which has basically remained a list-making app with design flaws and features that don't help avid readers (Angela Lashbrook/OneZero)

    Angela Lashbrook / OneZero: Amazon has done little to improve Goodreads, which has basically remained a list-making app with design flaws and features that don’t help avid readers  —  Despite Amazon’s innovation elsewhere, Goodreads has stagnated for 12 years, and its problems are endless Amazon has done little to improve Goodreads, which has basically remained

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