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  Jorin Cowley

  

  2 days ago

  GAMA Has Questions for the FAA About eVTOL Certification

  FLYING Magazine - Flying Magazine

  Now that the FAA is changing the path for electric air taxi certification, manufacturers, industry veterans, and a former FAA official weigh in.

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  Jorin Cowley

  

  Jun 17

  Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China

  buzzfeednews.com - Emily Baker-White

  “I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close …

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  Jorin Cowley

  

  Microsoft Defender launches on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android

  The Verge - Tom Warren

  Microsoft is launching a new Defender cybersecurity app across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android today. While the software giant has used the Defender moniker for its antivirus protection for years, this new cross-platform Microsoft Defender app is designed for individuals as more of a simplified …

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  Jorin Cowley

  

  Musk tells Twitter staff that “exceptional” employees can work remotely

  Ars Technica - Jon Brodkin

  Musk: "It wouldn't make sense to fire" great employees who work from home. Although Elon Musk recently banned remote work at both Tesla and SpaceX, he …

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  Jorin Cowley

  

  The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses

  Quanta Magazine - Allison Whitten

  Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details. When our …

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  Jorin Cowley

  

  How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data

  eff.org - Bennett Cyphers

  Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have formed a vast, secretive partnership to …