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AWS re:Invent Hot Takes
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AWS re:Invent Hot Takes

AWS launches a mountain of new features leading up to and during AWS re:Invent. Here's the list of announcements for 2020 and my perspective on a lot of them that I think will help you build better.

Is Apple Tracking The Apps You Use?
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Is Apple Tracking The Apps You Use?

Apple recently launched macOS Big Sur and a security researcher's post vent viral highlighting a steady stream of communications that "phone home" detailing what apps you're using on your system. What's going on here?

How AI Could Help Ease Your Zoom Fatigue
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How AI Could Help Ease Your Zoom Fatigue

Is your day chalk full of video calls? Wondering why you're exhausted at the end of the day? The two might be related 😉. In this column, Robyn and I discuss some of the reasons for 'zoom fatigue' and what technology might help address it.

Advertising to & Tracking iOS 14 Users
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Advertising to & Tracking iOS 14 Users

Ad-tech, digital marketing, and the surveillance economy are worth billions and billions of dollars. It all hinges on the ability to target ads and you can't target ads without tracking users and their devices.

Do App Stores Help Your Privacy & Security?
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Do App Stores Help Your Privacy & Security?

Epic Games is current waging war on Apple and Google over the right to distribute apps to mobile users. There's been a ton of excellent coverage of the issues, but it's usually missing one key perspective; what do we as users get from the App Stores?

Legacy Authentication Risks
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Legacy Authentication Risks

The Canada Revenue Agency suffered a large breach exposing over 5,000 citizens to COVID-19 benefit fraud. This issue exposes some of the challenges of providing authentication services to millions of citizens. Why did this happen? And what can we do to protect ourselves?

One Month After the Twitter Hack
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One Month After the Twitter Hack

On July 15th, 2020, Twitter was hit with the most visible hack of a social network of all time. 130 of the top accounts tweeted out a bitcoin scam. A month after, have we learned anything? What's the impact of continuing to use Twitter?

The Help Desk Is a Key to Incident Response
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The Help Desk Is a Key to Incident Response

Outages are hard to handle. There's pressure to get things back up and running, to avoid damage to your reputation, and to avoid getting yelled at by the boss. The Help Desk is often the best positioned team to help...and the most overlooked.

Is TikTok a Threat?
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Is TikTok a Threat?

The President has promised to ban TikTok in the United States for national security reasons. Is that the case? Are there real security & privacy concerns or is this purely a political move?