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• Supreme Court justices parse US antiterrorism law in Twitter case

  23-02-2023 23:46
  
  The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday from Twitter, the US government and the family of a Jordanian citizen killed in a 2017 terrorist attack, in a case that will decide whether the social media platform can be held liable for the actions of those who use its services.Much of the hearing was devoted to a careful parsing of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), the law under which the Tammneh family brought their lawsuit. Their argument, essentially, is that Twi
  
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• 5 reasons videoconferencing is on the decline (again)

  23-02-2023 22:06
  
  Videoconferencing and collaboration vendors like Zoom have been reporting a sharp decline in business this year. It’s been a recurring in the industry for decades, a boom followed by a bust. The first spike happened in the 1990s, when Intel CEO Andy Grove invested heavily in the technology then indicated that was one of his biggest mistakes. A second spike took place a decade later when HP rolled out Halo rooms, followed again, by a decline.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Urban Alliance welcomes Bautista as it's next executive director - WKZO

  23-02-2023 20:23
  
  Urban Alliance welcomes Bautista as it's next executive director  WKZO
  
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• Hard-to-spot Mac crypto-mining threat, XMRig, hits Pirate Bay

  23-02-2023 15:11
  
  A new family of Mac malware that spreads through pirated versions of Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and other key creative apps has been identified by the Threat Labs team at Jamf.The new XMRig threat is a subtle cryptocurrency mining attack that has evaded detection for months.Piracy is bad karma, but good crypto
  XMRig proliferates by attaching itself to pirated copies of creative applications, including versions of Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro X, and Adobe Photoshop. That’s the kind of "knock-of
  
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• As Microsoft embraces AI, it says sayonara to the metaverse

  23-02-2023 12:00
  Remember the metaverse?Before the recent explosion of hype around artificial intelligence (AI), the metaverse was anointed the Next Big Thing, ready to transform the world, technology, and work in ways never before imagined. Soon we would all live and work together in a virtual world far more interesting, vital, and productive than the drab reality in which we’re stuck.It wasn’t just Mark Zuckerberg who led the metaverse charge by changing Facebook’s name to Meta. Microsoft hy
  
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