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Pfizer just announced that its Lyme disease vaccine reduced the number of tick-borne infections by over 70% in a phase 3 trial.

Warning: GSK pulled a Lyme vaccine in 2002 despite studies showing it posed no serious safety risks.

Any new Lyme vaccine is going to be a huge target for antivaxxers.

Apple is to start introducing ads to its Maps app, according to @Engadget, based on reporting from Bloomberg. "This potential ad revenue could seriously bolster Apple's services business, which currently generates $100 billion a year for the company."

https://flip.it/Yn5atT

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Your regular reminder:

It’s not vaccines vs masks

It’s vaccines AND masks AND clean air AND tests AND more

Asahi on how she had to find new ways to approach audio development for Mario Kart World, 2025.

Source: Ask the Developer

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https://www.hyruleinterviews.com/20b41fe961fd80e1bedfef95e832975e

The extent to which core linux projects are laying the groundwork for age verification is very concerning.

I understand why some believe they are compelled to do so, and why others feel that it may be better to implement the most minimal conforming implementation in the hopes of fending off something worse.

But the line must be drawn such that no threat can obligate an OS to collect/store personal information - without that freedom, we face an uphill fight to protect general purpose computing.

Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next
https://www.theverge.com/column/898122/online-age-verification-vpns?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Verge @the-verge-theverge

On my flight back to the U.S. this week, I wrote some words about why age verification laws threaten the security and privacy of everyone on the internet. By requiring people to upload their IDs, governments are sleepwalking the world into an inevitable data disaster.

For my newsletter and blog ~ this week in security ~

Read online: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/papers-please-age-verification-laws-threaten-everyones-online-security-and-privacy/

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