misc/DTNS2022-05-30

See Talk:misc/DTNS2022-05-30 for the tech news stories that have been read and analyzed.

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1. Android[1] Police reports that Twitter[2] Circle[3] began rolling out to more users,
2. after Twitter launched a test of the feature earlier this month.
3. Twitter Circle lets you share tweets viewable by designated accounts.

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1. Tether is most famous as operating the stablecoin USDT, which is pegged to the US dollar. But it also has EURT pegged to the Euro and CNHT, pegged to the Chinese Yuan. And now it has a fourth as it launches MXNT, pegged to the peso. Tether backs its coins with a mix of actual cash and easily-liquidated securities, however it has been criticized for not being as transparent with those holdings, as other stablecoins have been.

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1. Netflix announced a new password sharing policy in Peru, Chile, and Costa Rica back in March, requiring users to pay extra for sharing passwords outside their home, but about one-third the price of migrating to a new account. Rest of World reports users experiecing a lack of clarity of what constitutes a household, with some user simply ignoring Netflix warning messages with no consequence.

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1. Peru’s consumer rights agency said differing charges could be considered arbitrary user discrimination, but did not say if it had launched an investigation. The UK Cinema Association partnered with the digital ID firm Yoti to now accept digital IDs to enter age restricted movies. The Yoti ID app lets users add in passport details and a current photo, showing an age-verified image that can be verified by movie theater staff.

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1. The Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennesse became the first exascale supercomputer with a sustained Linpack run of 1.102 ExaFlops a second. It overtook Japan's Fugaku supercomputer as the world's fastest, and faster other top seven supercomputers combined. Frontier users 602,112 AMD "Trento" CPU cores and 4.6 petabytes of DDR4 memory.

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1. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied Apple's motion to dismiss the antitrust lawsuit brought by the makers of the competing app store Cydia. Apple argued that the case fell outside of the four year window to file antitrust suits, but Judge Rogers ruled that "to the extent plaintiff's claims rely on Apple's technological updates to exclude Cydia from being able to operate altogether, those claims are timely."

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