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Taliban-related content banned on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook said it considers the Taliban to be a terrorist organization. The social media firm said it has a team of content moderators that is monitoring and removing posts, images, videos and other content related to the Taliban. (Sam Shead via CNBC)
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin sues NASA, escalating its fight for a Moon lander contract. Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin brought its fight against NASA’s Moon program to federal court, doubling down on accusations that the agency wrongly evaluated its lunar lander proposal.  (Joey Roulette via The Verge)
The Taliban's return is catastrophic for women. One morning in the summer of 1999, Shukriya Barakzai woke up feeling dizzy and feverish. According to the Taliban's rules, she needed a Maharram, a male guardian, in order to leave home to visit the doctor. (Lynsey Addario via The Atlantic)
The T-Mobile Data Breach Is One You Can't Ignore. Not all data breaches are created equal. None of them are good, but they do come in varying degrees of bad. And given how regularly they happen, it's understandable that you may have become inured to the news. (Brian Barrett via WIRED)
How Coinbase Ventures Became One Of Crypto's Busiest VCs-Without Any Full-Time Staff. Look at the busiest U.S. investors in cryptocurrency startups this year, and in between investment firms like Digital Currency Group, Pantera Capital, Blockchain Capital and Andreessen Horowitz you'll find Coinbase Ventures. (Alex Konrad via Forbes)
Delayed Wuhan Report Adds Crucial Detail to Covid Origin Puzzle. The origin story of Covid-19 remains a mystery mired in contentious geopolitical debate. But a research paper that languished in publishing limbo for a year and a half contains meticulously collected data and photographic evidence supporting… (Jason Gale via Bloomberg)
Bitcoin Fans Are Suddenly a Political Force. A clash over tax rules for digital currencies like bitcoin turned into a political coming-of-age moment for the cryptocurrency industry, galvanizing a usually fractious coalition of investors, exchanges, financiers and social-media influencers. (Peter Rudegeair via Wall Street Journal)
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