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A prototype computer vision system to allow motorcyclists to take bends more safely is developed by Swiss researchers at ETH Zurich
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-55831454

Instagram is taking aggressive action against members of the so-called OGUsers community, which hack, extort, and scam their way to controlling high profile, and high value, usernames across a spectrum of apps and social media networks. Instagram told Motherboard it had unmasked the real identities of multiple people involved in the trade of these usernames, disabling a number of accounts the scammers had stolen, and sent cease and desist letters to identified.
http://wwwizzards.com/3pYmQc3

A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its hosts and two former lawyers for former President Donald Trump — Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell — for $2.7 billion, charging that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped “steal” the U.S. presidential election.
http://wwwizzards.com/2O9TRnD

Three Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill that would limit Section 230, a law that shields online companies from liability over content posted by users, and make the companies more accountable when posts result in harm.
http://wwwizzards.com/3cOMZ9q

Falisified COVID-19 test certificates can be bought for as little as $10 (€8.20), roughly $50 less than an actual COVID test, in Harare, said Mchechesi, a doctor and co-founder of Vaxiglobal, a health-tech start-up focused on immunization verification in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is one of a number of countries working on digital solutions to verify who has been vaccinated.
http://wwwizzards.com/3oXKbJy