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NASA's Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid Is Ready to Launch. Is the asteroid Psyche really a hunk of mostly metal? Is the object, which is nearly as wide as Massachusetts, the core of a baby planet whose rocky outer layers were knocked off during a cataclysmic collision in the early days of the solar system? Right now, all that astronomers can say is maybe, maybe not. By Kenneth Chang via The New York Times
NASA’s Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid Is Ready to Launch - Joey Confrey (@RealJoeyConfrey)
Meta says it's prioritizing livestreaming checks during Israel-Hamas war. Following a content moderation warning from European Union regulators earlier this week, Meta has published an overview of how its responding to risks on its social media platforms stemming from the Israel-Hamas war. Its blog post covers what it frames as “ongoing efforts”, with some existing policies and tools for users rehashed. But the company confirms it’s made some changes in light of fast moving events in Israel and Gaza. By Natasha Lomas via TechCrunch
Meta says it’s prioritizing livestreaming checks during Israel-Hamas war - Infosec Alevski (@Alevskey)
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A New Protocol Vulnerability Will Haunt the Web for Years. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Cloudflare revealed this week that they battled massive, record-setting distributed denial of service attacks against their cloud infrastructure in August and September. DDoS attacks, in which attackers attempt to overwhelm a service with junk traffic to bring it down, are a classic internet menace, and hackers are always developing new strategies to make them bigger or more effective. By Lily Hay Newman via WIRED
A New Protocol Vulnerability Will Haunt the Web for Years - Admire Nabanza. (@AdmireNabanza)
Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition, Call of Duty now part of Xbox. Microsoft has finalized its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The Verge exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was planning to close today, and now it's official. By Tom Warren via The Verge
Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition, Call of Duty is now part of Xbox. After 20 months of regulatory battles, Microsoft's giant $68.7 billion gaming deal is complete. - Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
How Ads on Your Phone Can Aid Government Surveillance. Technology embedded in our phones and computers to serve up ads can also end up serving government surveillance. Information from mobile-phone apps and advertising networks paints a richly detailed portrait of the online activities of billions of devices. By Byron Tau via Wall Street Journal
How ads on your phone are part of the government surveillance complex - Patience (@patiencehaggin)
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