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Say hello to Astro, Alexa on wheels. In the fall of 1962, TV-watching audiences were invited to meet the Jetsons, a space-dwelling, flying-car-driving family from the future and their dog, Astro. Today, Amazon wants you to meet a different Astro, one that’s not quite as fantastical or futuristic as the Jetsons, but actually available in our present. (Dan Seifert via The Verge)
CNN restricts access to Facebook pages in Australia. CNN said it has restricted access to its Facebook pages in Australia following a ruling from that country's high court that makes news organizations legally liable for comments on their Facebook posts. (Benjamin Mullin via Wall Street Journal)
'Most Americans today believe the stock market is rigged, and they're right'. New research shows insider trading is everywhere. So far, no one seems to care. Jimmy Filler made his considerable wealth buying and selling scrap metal in Birmingham, Ala. (Liam Vaughan via Bloomberg)
New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix. Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone's username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no visibility into the attacker's actions, let alone the possibility of blocking them. (Ax Sharma via Ars Technica)
Ozy says it's great at discovering big names before the mainstream media. But is it?. I want to thank The New York Times’ Ben Smith for writing a story I’ve been hoping someone would tackle (and/or been meaning to write myself) for the better part of a decade. (Joshua Benton via Nieman Lab)
Humans Can't Be the Sole Keepers of Scientific Knowledge. There's an old joke that physicists like to tell: Everything has already been discovered and reported in a Russian journal in the 1960s, we just don't know about it. Though hyperbolic, the joke accurately captures the current state of affairs. (Iulia Georgescu via WIRED)
Mark Cuban and Coinbase back Eternal, an NFT marketplace for trading Twitch streamer clips. The NFT world collectively seems to be trying to turn internet memories into one big game — with a lot of cash involved, of course. The original “Doge” image sold for $4 million back in June, the original “Pepe” comic image sold for $1 million in April; in short, people are becoming meme millionaires. (Lucas Matney via TechCrunch)
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