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Americans are one step closer to a national contact tracing app for Covid-19

Vox

Apple and Google worked together to make the tool interoperable with iOS and Android operating systems, and iOS 14 has the exposure notification tool baked into the system itself and notifies users about the feature, creating a relatively seamless process to enable it. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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ABC Interview: Google as an advertising aggregator

Trends in the Living Networks

I have said for many years that the best way to understand Google is as an advertising aggregator (I would argue that even with its diversification over the last few years). It has for some years also sold advertising for delivery on radio, television, and newspapers. at the time. What's it all about?

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Operating Systems/Applications. And it’s publicly available on GitHub , although not licensed with a typical open source license.

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Apple and Google want to turn your phone into a Covid-tracking machine

Vox

An important thing to understand about this system is that Apple and Google aren’t doing this by themselves. The two companies are building a set of tools, known as an application programming interface (API), that lets iOS and Android apps communicate with each other. The whole system is opt-in. Apple and Google.

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Apple’s Fortnite ban, explained

Vox

And now Apple is threatening to cut off Epic’s access to its developer tools program, which could affect any apps that use the company’s Unreal Engine — and therefore, any consumers who use those apps. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. And the customer always pays for that, one way or another.

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Technology Short Take #31

Scott Lowe

I’ve tested it and it works as advertised. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others).

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. And it's a doozy program.