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Experts Uncover Several C&C Servers Linked to WellMess Malware https://thehackernews.com/2021/07/experts-uncover-several-c-servers.html

NSO Group has ‘temporarily blocked’ several government clients from using its technology: Report https://www.medianama.com/2021/07/223-nso-group-blocked-clients-pegasus/

Pegasus reports identify 18 business executives including top officials from Reliance, Jet Airways, and LIC https://www.medianama.com/2021/07/223-business-executives-pegasus-reports-reliance/

Australian Court Rules That Yes, AI Can Be an Inventor https://gizmodo.com/australian-court-rules-that-yes-ai-can-be-an-inventor-1847394182

I Accidentally Recorded At Least 682 Gigabytes of Video of Myself Without My Knowledge https://gizmodo.com/i-accidentally-recorded-at-least-682-gigabytes-of-video-1847396873

Activism Against the Olympics https://thesocietypages.org/specials/activism-against-the-olympics/

Update Your iPhone, iPad, and Mac Right Now https://gizmodo.com/update-your-iphone-ipad-and-mac-right-now-1847366169

US consultants lined up to run fund that owns Israeli spyware company NSO https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/31/nso-group-israeli-spyware-company-berkeley-research-group

The name of the thing
In a world saturated with euphemisms, we invite three writers and a poet to share their particular crumpled metaphor https://lab.cccb.org/en/the-name-of-the-thing/

Policy explainer brief: the Pegasus Project revelations in India https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/2021/07/India_Parliament_Brief_Explainer_Pegasus_Project.pdf

German Facebook ruling boosts EU push for stricter content moderation https://www.politico.eu/article/german-court-tells-facebook-to-reinstate-removed-posts/

The Ethics of Using Legally-Obtained Personal Data in Reporting https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/ethics-using-legally-obtained-personal-data-reporting-on-the-media?tab=summary

The technological arms race that will shape our future - Chips with everything by @evgenymorozov@twitter.com https://mondediplo.com/2021/08/03morozov

US Western Wildfires Are Sending Carbon Offsets Up in Smoke https://gizmodo.com/western-wildfires-are-sending-carbon-offsets-up-in-smok-1847370861

Announcing Rhizome Almanac
A new resource for the care and handling of digital art, for artists and institutions. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/jul/27/the-old-preservationists-almanac/

The Surprising Innovations of Pandemic-Era Sex https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/the-pandemic-might-have-changed-sex-for-the-better/619553/

Vigilante app Citizen is paying people to livestream crime scenes and emergencies https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22595648/citizen-app-crime-scene-paid-live-streamer-nyc-la-emergencies

Belabored: Why “Corporate Social Responsibility” Fails Workers https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-why-corporate-social-responsibility-fails-workers

‘Everyone was a white man’: what it was like being a woman of colour in the 2000s indie scene https://gal-dem.com/indie-scene-2000s-women-of-colour-go-team-new-young-pony-club-lcd-soundsystem/

How Watermelon Became a Symbol of Palestinian Resistance https://hyperallergic.com/666111/how-watermelon-became-a-symbol-of-palestinian-resistance/