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Big Win for Clojure Co
Cognitect, the company behind the popular programming language Clojure, has been purchased by the largest fintech company in Latin America, Nubank. This is a big win that will mean more releases, resources, and conferences around Clojure in the years to come. COGNITECT
Travel Company is FBI Spy
The publicly traded, Texas-based travel company Sabre “store[s] the vast majority of the world’s travel information.” And the FBI has been using this data trove for years to track fugitives and provide real-time data for suspects. FORBES
DNA Databases Hacked
American genealogy site GEDmatch was hacked, allowing police to access records they should not have had access to. Two days later, Israel based genealogy company MyHeritage was hacked via a phishing attack, made possible by targeting email addresses obtained in the first attack on GEDmatch, just two days before. BUZZFEED
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