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#AxisOfEasy 141: Here Comes Dark_Nexus: Possibly The Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever

April 13, 2020

Hacked video conference logins being sold on the Dark Web
Apple and Google teaming up for Coronavirus contact tracing
Eurozone Coronavirus surveillance efforts use mobile apps to track spread

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There’s No Going Back, We Can Only Go Forward

April 12, 2020

What I see is a global collapse of intangible capital that is invisible to most people.It’s only natural that the conventional expectation is a return to the pre-pandemic world is just a matter of time. Whether it’s three months or six months or 1…

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AirBnB Pivots to “Virtual Experiences”, Lands $1 Billion  Down Round

AirBnB Pivots to “Virtual Experiences”, Lands $1 Billion Down Round

April 12, 2020

AirBnB, the tech unicorn that monetizes your spare room has been hit hard by the Coronavirus academic. As the company and the phenomenon grew, more and more “investors” levered up to buy more properties to rent out short term. Some becoming so-called “super-hosts”, running dozens or even hundreds of rental units. There even emerged a phenomenon, of “STR arbitrage“, which is Short Term Rental Arbitrage: taking out long term leases on properties you don’t own,…

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Tesla to lay off up to half of sales and delivery staff

April 10, 2020

CNBC reported Friday that Tesla will be laying off up to half of it’s sales and delivery staff, this comes on the heels of other layoffs reported earlier in the week. Salaried employees are looking at pay cuts of 10% to 30%. In other news, Elon’s brother Kimball appears to have pulled a switcheroo on his employees “emergency fund” for his Nextdoor Restaurant chain, pulling the plug on the fund right before he laid off…

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Buy The Tumor, Sell the News

April 10, 2020

The fictitious valuation of the stock market will eventually re-connect with reality in a violent decline.No, buy the tumor, sell the news ™ is not a typo: the stock market is a lethal tumor in our economy and society. Buy the rumor, …

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The World Has Changed More Than We Know

April 8, 2020

Put another way: eras end.While the mainstream media understandably focuses on the here and now of the pandemic, some commentators are looking at the long-term consequences. Here is a small sampling:Coronavirus, synchronous failure and the gl…

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Contributors

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Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture. 

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Jesse Hirsh

Futurist, researcher and public speaker, Jesse Hirsh has been active in technology and commenting on it across the media for 25 years. His premium newsletter service operates from Metaviews.ca.

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Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.