🏃‍♀️ It's Time to Bring Back the AIM Away Message

Plus: Elon Musk's Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out, Anti-abortion activists are collecting the data they'll need for prosecutions post-Roe, and more…

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It's Time to Bring Back the AIM Away Message. In the beginning, there was AOL Instant Messenger. That wasn't actually the beginning. Talkomatic, Compuserve's CB Simulator, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) all preceded it. But AIM was the beginning of something, a gateway to real-time… (Lauren Goode / WIRED)

Chaotic Goode @LaurenGoode

"Asynchronous" messaging is no longer; we are all walking live chats. And we are messaging maniacs. I see only one solution to this problem

wired.comIt’s Time to Bring Back the AIM Away MessageThe live chats of the past are now in our pockets and inescapable. We need better boundaries.

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Elon Musk's Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out. The world's richest man appears to have had it with this whole working-from-home business. Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., weighed in on the return-to-office debate Wednesday on Twitter by elaborating on an email he apparently… (Katrina Nicholas / Bloomberg)

Katrina Nicholas @katrinanicholas

The world’s richest man appears to have had it with this whole WFH business bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @business

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Anti-abortion activists are collecting the data they'll need for prosecutions post-Roe. Heather Mobley, a board member of Charlotte for Choice, volunteers as a clinic defender there. Clinic defenders put themselves in between people attending the clinics and protesters, verbally engaging with protesters as needed. They also surveil… (Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review)

Abby Ohlheiser @abbyohlheiser

I was curious about how the daily monitoring that happens outside abortion clinics -- protesters tracking license plates of patients arriving, wearing body cams, etc. - might become tools for prosecutors post-Roe. technologyreview.com/2022/05/31/105…

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Affirm teams up with Stripe as the BNPL wars intensify. Two fintech giants are partnering up. Affirm is making its buy now, pay later technology available to businesses who use Stripe's payments tech. This means that a whole slew of companies that were not… (Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo @bayareawriter

.@Affirm is making its buy now, pay later technology available to businesses that use @stripe’s payments tech. This means that a whole slew of companies that were not previously able to offer their customers the option to pay in installments, now can.

techcrunch.comAffirm teams with Stripe as BNPL wars intensify – TechCrunchAffirm is making its buy now, pay later technology available to businesses that use Stripe’s payments tech.

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Code execution 0-day in Windows has been under active exploit for 7 weeks. A critical code execution zero-day in all supported versions of Windows has been under active exploit for seven weeks, giving attackers a reliable means for installing malware without triggering Windows Defender and a roster of other endpoint… (Dan Goodin / Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin @dangoodin001

This is every bit as bad as it sounds, only worse. -- 0 click -- 0 day -- in a core windows application -- hard to detect The requirements are fairly specific, but they occur often enough to make CVE-2022-30190 the ideal means to detonate payloads on Windows machines.

Techmeme @Techmeme

Researchers told Microsoft on April 12 of an RCE Windows exploit being used in the wild; Microsoft now calls it a critical flaw, but it's still unpatched (@dangoodin001 / Ars Technica) https://t.co/k9jIMnv4bE https://t.co/p52PR3u1Y6

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