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A former pro is helping figure skating look more authentic than ever

The Verge

But far more exciting and intimate ways to shoot ice skating have been emerging on social media, and one person in particular has made a name synonymous with turning the sport into something spectacular to watch: Jordan Cowan, under the name On Ice Perspectives. It can be dull to watch. This conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.

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Twitter verifies fake Cormac McCarthy account (again)

The Verge

The @CormacMcCrthy account has been tweeting infrequently since 2018 but was verified after a pair of its tweets went viral, racking up tens of thousands of likes and retweets. Many Twitter users were instantly skeptical about the authenticity of the account. “We But still, they really should have noticed that something was up here.

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How Blacks in Technology Foundation is ‘stomping the divide’

CIO Business Intelligence

Whether it’s workplace issues, social justice issues, or talking about engineering, and help each other along with our careers,” says Greenlee. By 2018, the foundation started hosting its own conference, BITCON, with corporate sponsors such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

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Why this Oracle exec turned to academia to help climb the cloud career ladder

GeekWire

In January 2018, Alfred became senior director of compute operations at Oracle in Bellevue, Wash., where he oversees a team of more than 250 engineers and program managers in 13 countries in the Global Business Units division. Your preferred social network? I believe and have been trained that effective leaders are authentic.

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

The Wall Street Journal reported in November that a 2018 internal Facebook analysis found 40 percent of its pages traffic went to pages that stole or recycled most of their content. They thought they were buying the authentic Alternate Histories calendars, rather than the knockoffs. And that’s just Facebook.

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Top 10 Data Breaches of All Time

SecureWorld News

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. Oh, how times have changed. and Vietnam.

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Top 10 Data Breaches of All Time

SecureWorld News

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. How times have changed. Who attacked: no attacker.

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