Sunday, February 13, 2022

Newly unsealed court documents show IBM executives disparaged older employees as "dinobabies" and discussed phasing them out to make room for millennials (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Newly unsealed court documents show IBM executives disparaged older employees as “dinobabies” and discussed phasing them out to make room for millennials  —  Documents released in an age-discrimination case appear to show high-level discussion about paring the ranks of older employees.



Optimism fixes a critical bug that would have allowed creation of unlimited ETH tokens in the Ethereum layer-2 scaling project's accounts, awards a $2M bounty (Tom Mitchelhill/Cointelegraph)

Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph:
Optimism fixes a critical bug that would have allowed creation of unlimited ETH tokens in the Ethereum layer-2 scaling project's accounts, awards a $2M bounty  —  Ethereum scaling startup Optimism disclosed a “critical bug” fix in the project's Geth fork that would have allowed malicious hackers to create infinite ETH



European Commission says it is planning to propose a bill for a digital euro in early 2023; the ECB expects to start working on a prototype at the end of 2023 (Bjarke Smith-Meyer/Politico)

Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico:
European Commission says it is planning to propose a bill for a digital euro in early 2023; the ECB expects to start working on a prototype at the end of 2023  —  The European Commission announced Wednesday it's planning to propose a bill for a digital euro early next year.



Research: ModifiedElephant APT has targeted activists, journalists, lawyers, and others in India to spy on or plant digital evidence since at least 2012 (Tom Hegel/SentinelOne)

Tom Hegel / SentinelOne:
Research: ModifiedElephant APT has targeted activists, journalists, lawyers, and others in India to spy on or plant digital evidence since at least 2012  —  Executive Summary  — Our research attributes a decade of activity to a threat actor we call ModifiedElephant.



Saturday, February 12, 2022

Bored Ape Yacht Club members, who have full IP rights for the ape character they own, are pursuing licensing deals to put ape characters on cannabis packaging (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Bored Ape Yacht Club members, who have full IP rights for the ape character they own, are pursuing licensing deals to put ape characters on cannabis packaging  —  When Richard Lee first brought his business proposal to Backpack Boyz, he could sense skepticism from the California-based cannabis company.



Marketplace suspends most NFT sales, citing 'rampant' fakes and plagiarism

Sales of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, soared to around $25 billion in 2021, leaving many baffled as to why so much money is being spent on items that do not physically exist and which anyone can view online for free. https://ift.tt/IDMzv5S

Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...