Beeper, a YCombinator-backed startup, initially came up with an expensive and inherently insecure method to make a beta version of its app work. This method sent every message through a relay server before arriving at the recipient’s messaging client. Then, late this summer, the company landed on a breakthrough technique, originally drafted as a proof … Read more
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Meta is challenging the European Commission’s decision to regulate two of its services, Messenger and Marketplace, as gatekeepers under the bloc’s tough new restrictions on tech platforms. The company filed an appeal over the two services today arguing that neither should qualify, Meta spokesperson Chris Sgro told The Verge. Reuters reported earlier Meta will not … Read more
Bill Maher was on a tear Friday night, acknowledging a deep state but not the one people talk about. The ‘Real Time’ host got real … it’s become impossible in the United States to build anything — houses, windmills, toilets, you name it — without jumping through endless hoops of overregulation by legislators and bureaucrats. … Read more