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Valle Orco, nuova via d’arrampicata alla Parete dei Falchi

Click:release the button In Valle dell’Orco Massimiliano Celano e Tiziano Marchetti nel mese di marzo 2019 hanno aperto Easy rider, una nuova via di 160 metri poco prima del Caporal alla Parete dei Falchi. L’idea con TizianoMarchetti è nata dal voler fare un’opera di restauro alla Parete dei Falchi, un bel posto poco frequentato dove esistono […]

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The Fight Over Section 230—and the Internet as We Know It

Few weeks have better encapsulated the whiplash-inducing discussions playing out around free speech online than the previous one. Last Monday the country was already knee-deep in questions about the internet’s role in spreading hate speech—and whether platforms were doing enough to combat it—after the web forum 8chan played host once again to a hateful manifesto […]

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Apple's Battery 'Service' Alerts Are a Blow Against Right to Repair

Last week, YouTuber Justin Ashford swapped the original battery in an iPhone XR with one he bought from an electronics market in Shenzhen. Ashford runs a channel called TheArtofRepair, which features videos about repairing electronics. This latest repair video wasn’t just an ordinary battery swap. It was a pointed message to Apple. The external battery […]

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DejaBlue: New BlueKeep-Style Bugs Renew the Risk of a Windows Worm

For months, systems administrators have been racing to patch their Windows systems against BlueKeep, a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol that could enable a global, internet-chewing worm if not fixed across hundreds of thousands of vulnerable computers. That worm has yet to arrive. But now, Microsoft has reset the clock in that race, […]

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Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech

On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring out of the company’s offices in Mountain View, California. They packed themselves into a cheerful courtyard outside the main campus café, a parklike area dotted with picnic tables and a shade structure […]

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People Are Tweeting About Videogames Now More Than Ever

Greetings, and welcome to this Monday's edition of The Monitor, WIRED's culture news roundup. What's happening? Glad you asked. First up, videogames are huge on Twitter. Second, Universal has canceled the release of one of its upcoming films. And finally, folks can finally get a glimpse of the new Apple TV+ show from Jennifer Aniston […]

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Security News This Week: Election Systems Are Way More Vulnerable Than We Thought

Hacker summer camp is here again! You know what that means: WIRED is back in Las Vegas for the annual Black Hat and Defcon security conferences, where we’re digging into the latest and greatest hacks on display. First, let’s talk about iPhones. A researcher found it’s possible to break into one just by sending a […]

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To Help Migrants at the Border, Aid Groups Deploy Tech

Last month, a young transgender woman from Central America applied for asylum in the US. Unlike thousands of others requesting asylum at the US-Mexico border, this person was especially fortunate. She had her birth certificate as well as a lawyer to represent her. She presented herself to Customs and Border Protection officers in San Ysidro, […]

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How Apple Pay Buttons Can Make Websites Less Safe

Apple Pay has a slew of protective features that make it a secure method of online credit card transactions. And since 2016, third-party merchants and services have been able to embed Apple Pay into their websites and offer it as a payment option. But at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, […]

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Soccer Is Getting Slower and More Fair—and That's a Problem

When Liverpool and Norwich face off today in the season-opening match of the Premier League, fans in England may see a bit of tradition slip away. No longer will the referees act as the all-seeing, all-knowing gods of the pitch. They’ll have a team of second-guessers watching from above—the video assistant referee, or VAR. Despite […]

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