Escobar Brother Barred by EU Court From Trademarking Family Name
Pablo Escobar, the name of the late Colombian drug kingpin, canât be registered as a trademark in the European Union after judges said that approving his brotherâs bid would go against âprinciples of morality.â From a report: The public âassociate that name with drug trafficking and narco-terrorism and with the crimes and suffering resulting there ⌠â Read more
Amazon Cloud Unit Kills Snowmobile Data Transfer Truck Service
At Amazonâs annual cloud conference in 2016, the company captured the crowdâs attention by driving an 18-wheeler onstage. Andy Jassy, now Amazonâs CEO, called it the Snowmobile, and said the company would be using the truck to help customers speedily transfer data to Amazon Web Services facilities. Less than eight years later, the semi is out of commissio ⌠â Read more
A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Usersâ Messages
404 Media: An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking usersâ messages and activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data for as little as $5. Called Spy Pet, the serviceâs creator says it scrapes more than ten thousand Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone ⌠â Read more
Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat
Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram messaging app, has accused tech giants Google and Apple of threatening to censor content on smartphones [YouTube link]. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Durov claimed that these companies told Telegram to comply with their guidelines or face removal from their app stores.
âThose two platforms, they could bas ⌠â Read more