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Nike sues over Lil Nas X’s ‘unauthorized Satan Shoes’

The Verge

Nike has sued internet collective MSCHF for selling “unauthorized Satan Shoes” in collaboration with rapper Lil Nas X. It can also claim the shoes are protected as a parody or argue that buyers are unlikely to confuse these modified Satan Shoes with off-the-shelf Nikes, random internet commenters notwithstanding.

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The rise of the TikTok scold

Vox

According to the scolds of TikTok — whose shouty expertise ranges far beyond diet to include fashion, beauty, parenting, and more — you might just be a garbage human, too. It’s in the “Fashion Mistakes that make you look completely STUPID” (wearing black shoes with a black shirt, apparently). Such content can also sow self-doubt.

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Nike is testing NFT trademark law by suing a sneaker reseller

The Verge

Unlike some marketplaces, it’s also an intermediary that takes in items and verifies their authenticity. In its lawsuit , which was filed February 3rd and previously covered by The Fashion Law , Nike notes that StockX has launched nine limited-edition Vault NFT series, and eight are linked with Nike shoes.

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How Ukrainians are fundraising in cryptocurrency

The Verge

Donations like these are ordinarily made the old-fashioned way: through banks. Among the DAO’s goals: creating peer-to-peer mesh networks to preserve internet connectivity, even if centralized internet service providers go down. Ukraine) February 26, 2022. My Ukrainian credit cards don't work anymore.

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DARPA offers $42 million for ‘revolutionary’ research on social media analysis

Trends in the Living Networks

automated operator support tools and techniques for the systematic and methodical use of social media at data scale and in a timely fashion to accomplish four specific program goals: 1. In particular, SMISC will develop automated and semi?]automated

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

By targeting specific files, the attackers get to choose what is sensitive and what to exfiltrate in a much more tactical fashion when compared to a 'spray-and-pray' ransomware.

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Twitter is dying. Policing women’s bodies is keeping it alive.

Vox

Recently, there have been three instances throwing the internet into a tizzy. First, on July 3, Tracee Ellis Ross attended the Schiaparelli fashion show in Paris, but what grabbed attention wasn’t what she wore to the runway, but what she didn’t have on beforehand. Did we see this sort of thing before the internet?

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