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Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat

Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life, host Ira Glass digs into how the kids landed there and why. But it mostly boils down to kids […]

Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat

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A security researcher told me to close my OAuth registration endpoint. I said no.

Last week I got an unsolicited security report about my QR code service. It was polite, it was accurate about the facts, and both of its headline recommendations would have broken the product.

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