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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading! Read more about it in this post.

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Fed Tech Roundup October 14

CTOvision

Federal jury finds Apple infringed on University of Wisconsin technology patent - Daily Journal. Can Campus Networks Ever Be Secure? Federal Jury Rules Apple Infringed on University of Wisconsin Patent - Wall Street Journal. Local company wins $50M federal technology deal - Dayton Business Journal.

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California App Maker Turns Overseas Gig Workers Into Intelligence-Gathering Military Assets

Gizmodo

military has turned an army of overseas cellphone users into a sweeping open-source intelligence network, gleaning data from cell towers and wifi hotspots in countries long engulfed by armed conflict with American forces and allies. A San Francisco tech company paid millions by the U.S. Read more.

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Amazon forms ‘Counterfeit Crimes Unit,’ under pressure to escalate fight against fake products

GeekWire

A Wall Street Journal investigation in August , for example, found more than 4,100 products on Amazon.com that federal agencies had declared unsafe. But lawmakers have been calling on Amazon to go further to reduce the prevalence of counterfeit products on its site after numerous reports and studies have spotlighted the problem.

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Why Attorney General Bill Barr is mad at Apple

Vox

Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists. Support Vox’s explanatory journalism. The boy who cried wolf has nothing on the agency that cried encryption.”.

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

Vox

They’re using the national server, and the four apps are all very similar, from their name (“COVID Alert [state]”) to their source code: The apps were built using an open source codebase called COVID Green, which was initially developed for Ireland’s app. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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How to make sure Google automatically deletes your data on a regular basis

Vox

Open Sourced is made possible by the Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists. Support Vox’s explanatory journalism. But it does show that the company is trying to improve it — or at least make us think it is.

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