June 1, 20220CommentsA group of 26 leading computer experts urge US lawmakers to resist crypto lobbying efforts, calling crypto financial instruments “risky, flawed, and unproven” (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times)
June 1, 20220CommentsCISA says Dominion’s voting machines used in at least 16 states have nine vulnerabilities that have not been exploited, and suggests mitigation measures (Kate Brumback/Associated Press)
June 1, 20220CommentsAnti-abortion activists are using license plate tracking and body cameras to collect data on people arriving at clinics for prosecutions post-Roe v. Wade (Abby Ohlheiser/MIT Technology Review)
June 1, 20220CommentsHands-on with Murena One, a privacy-focused $369 Android smartphone, which replaces all Google apps and services with its own custom ones (David Pierce/The Verge)
June 1, 20220CommentsFilings and holdings data at the end of April show Fidelity Investments cut the valuation of Instacart by 50%, Reddit by 33%, ByteDance by 13% and Stripe by 13% (Bloomberg)
June 1, 20220CommentsPodcasts hosted on Spotify-owned Megaphone were unavailable for over eight hours on Monday night and early Tuesday morning due to an expired SSL certificate (Ariel Shapiro/The Verge)
June 1, 20220CommentsMeta says it will change its stock ticker symbol to “META” prior to the market open on June 9 (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)
June 1, 20220CommentsSafari now has an estimated 1B+ users, making it the second browser to pass the milestone, behind Chrome’s 3.37B+, but ahead of Edge’s 212M+ and Firefox’s 179M+ (Atlas VPN)
June 1, 20221CommentThe Supreme Court shuts down Texas’s attempt to seize control of social media — for now