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Apple’s inside guy with the leakers is a must-read.

TOKYO, JAPAN - 2021/06/06: In this photo illustration, Apples iPhone 12 seen placed on a MacBook Pro. (Photo Illustration by Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Motherboard Andrei Shumeyko, also known as YRH04E and JVHResearch in the leak and jailbreak community, spent years trading secrets online as YRH04E and JVHResearch.
He was also telling Apple about what he discovered.
According to Motherboard, Shumeyko was gathering “personal information of persons who sold stolen iPhone prototypes from China, Apple workers who leaked information online, journalists who had links with leakers and vendors, and anything else he believed the firm would find interesting and worth investigating.”
Polygon EA has finally revamped Madden NFL’s Franchise mode for this year’s release, which is a good thing.
Let some time for the updates to take effect, even if they aren’t immediately noticeable.
According to Polygon, a feature like Gameday Momentum “doesn’t seem like much until it seems like a lot.”

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Cole Beasley isn’t anti-vax or pro-vax when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination and NFL protocols.

Cole Beasley Says Players Need ‘Proper Knowledge’ on Vaccines: ‘I’m Neither Anti or Pro Vax’ In a statement released Wednesday, Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley attempted to explain why he hasn’t taken the COVID-19 vaccine, saying that he believes NFL players don’t have all of the pertinent information.
He also expressed dissatisfaction with the league’s modified COVID-19 protocols, which handle vaccinated and unvaccinated players differently.
“I’m neither anti-vax nor pro-vax.”
“I’m a pro-choice person,” Beasley stated in a statement released on Wednesday.
“The problem here is that information is being kept from players in order for them to be persuaded in a direction with which they may not be comfortable.”
“There should be complete transparency regarding information when dealing with a player’s health and safety.
We need to know that we are fully informed and that people who are in a position to assist us will always do so based on our unique circumstances.” Here’s the rest of the statement: “Without all of the necessary information, a player can feel confused and unsure of a very personal decision,” Beasley wrote about immunizations.
“That makes a player feel unprotected, and it raises questions about future themes surrounding health and our capacity to make smart judgments,” Beasley noted in June.
“If you’re afraid of me, stay away.”
“Period,” Beasley said in a Twitter statement [sic].
“I might die of covid, but I’d rather die genuinely living,” Beasley said, adding that with NFL training camps started, he wanted to be a voice for players who are afraid or unwilling to get vaccinated.
“Some people say I’m being selfish by making this a’me’ thing,” Beasley stated in a statement released on Wednesday.
“It’s all about the young players who don’t have a voice and who are reaching out to me every day because they’re being told they’ll be cut if they don’t get vaxxed.”
“So, once unvaccinated players are cut, they’re losing a dream they’ve worked their whole lives for over a vaccine that has been shown to not save people from developing COVID,” Beasley continued.
Others, including players and coaches, have been hesitant to be vaccinated.
In a since-deleted tweet, Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins stated the NFL’s new COVID-19 outbreak and vaccine regulations are making him “worry” about his future in the league.
“I never imagined I’d say this, but being forced to injure my team because I don’t want to take the vaccine is making me doubt my NFL future,” Hopkins tweeted.
The NFL’s revised rules allow immunized athletes to return to near-normalcy, according to Ryan Tannehill.
Unvaccinated players, on the other hand, are subject to a slew of restrictions.
The league will pay unvaccinated players $14,650 if they breach COVID-19 regulations this season, according to ESPN’s Jenna Laine.
As players arrived at training camps on Tuesday, the NFL sent teams updated COVID-19 camp and preseason protocols.
According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, another charge outlined in the document was a $50,000 fine for failing to submit a necessary COVID-19 test.
Beasley said the major goal now that the league’s protocols are in place is to keep him and other players safe.
“Safety isn’t just about avoiding the COVID virus,” Beasley explained.
“Our health is now and in the years ahead, which we are attempting to protect with our personal decision by doing everything we did in our protocols throughout the extremely successful 2020 NFL season.”

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Cole Beasley, a wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills, believes the NFL’s vaccine grievance stems from uneven standards, and he wants players to get ‘correct knowledge.’

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— Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley, who has been vocal in his opposition to the NFL’s COVID-19 vaccination policy, attempted to clarify his position on Wednesday, claiming his issue with the league is the disparity in standards between vaccinated and unvaccinated players.
“I’m neither anti-vax or for-vax — I’m pro choice,” Beasley said after the Bills’ first practice of training camp, reading from a prepared statement.
“With that said, the issue at hand is withholding information from players in order to sway a player in a route he may not be comfortable with.”
“When it comes to a player’s health and safety, information that is critical in the decision-making process should be completely transparent.”
A player may feel misled and unsure about a particularly personal decision if they do not have all of the necessary facts.
The NFL’s policy, which severely restricted unvaccinated athletes while allowing vaccinated players to return to near-normalcy, drew criticism from Beasley last month, when he tweeted that he was not vaccinated and would “live my one life what I wa.”
Nevertheless, it was the frequency of testing that Beasley was most critical of; under the regulation controlling preseason and training camp, unvaccinated players will be needed to be tested daily, while vaccinated players will only be obliged to test every two weeks.
“It’s obvious reasoning that if a vaxed or unvaxed player is tested less frequently, the chances of being removed for COVID reduce drastically,” he explained.
“In terms of player safety, I’ll just say that we all want to be safe.”
“For a lot of NFL players, safety doesn’t only mean avoiding the COVID virus.”
“Our health is now and in the future, which we are trying to safeguard with our personal choice while doing everything we did in our protocol during a very successful 2020 NFL season,” said Bills general manager Brandon Beane on Wednesday.
Beane also stated that he does not feel that Beasley’s or any other player’s social media comments about the vaccine will detract from the team’s overall focus now that training camp has started.
“Sometimes things goes out in social media,” Beane added, “and you don’t know how to interpret it.”
“You know, I’ve had quite a few discussions with a few of the men.”
It’s a challenge.
Men are attempting to educate themselves and consider all perspectives.
Yet, we have professionals on staff, and we allow them to share their opinions.
“As long as it’s not going to be a distraction, and Sean (McDermott) and I have both made that point.”
We don’t think anything is wrong.
I believe you’ll be able to tell where our boys are focused once we’re out on the turf playing football.
Last season, Beasley set a career high with 967 receiving yards on 82 catches in his second season with the Bills.

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Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys provokes Twitter jokes by responding to a vaccine question with “That’s HIPAA.”

Dak Prescott, the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, dodged a question about whether he had taken the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday.
As a result of his remark, he received a slew of amusing Twitter replies.
Prescott told reporters that it wasn’t “exactly essential” whether he was on the field or not.
When asked if he is vaccinated, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott answered, “I don’t necessarily think that’s exactly relevant.”
HIPAA, I believe.” pic.twitter.com/EKYI1t4A5S — Michael Gehlken (@GehlkenNFL) July 23, 2021
Patients are protected against health care practitioners releasing personal information without their knowledge or agreement under the statute.
From the United States
What information is protected, according to the Department of Health and Human Services? Information that your doctors, nurses, and other health care providers enter into your medical record Discussions your doctor has with nurses and others about your care or treatment Information about you in your health insurer’s computer system Billing information about you at your clinic The majority of other health information about you
MORE: New restrictions will have a huge impact on teams with the lowest and highest immunization rates His response didn’t save him from the ensuing Twitter jokes: “My wife just asked me if I played well on the golf course today,” he said.
I informed her that her query was in violation of my HIPAA rights.
— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) July 24, 2021 For the record, asking me to choose all squares with traffic lights is a HIPAA violation — Pablo S.
Torre (@PabloTorre) July 23, 2021 Adding a splash of HIPAA to the conversation like parsley on an excellent chef’s plate https://t.co/vPypd0NHeM — Desus Nice (@desusnice) July 23, 2021 It’s a HIPAA violation to ask me how much hot tub water I’ve unintentionally drank — Julius Caesar (@Jiddy7) July 24, 2021 Asking me whether Pep
Prescott’s refusal to reveal personal information was likewise well-received.
On the eve of training camps, vaccinations are a hot topic in the NFL.
The league informed clubs on Thursday that if a game is postponed due to a COVID-19 epidemic among unvaccinated players and the game cannot be rescheduled, the team with the outbreak would forfeit the game and neither team will be compensated.
DeAndre Hopkins, a wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals, later stated on social media that he did not want the vaccine and that he had “maybe 9 more years in me,” referring to his football career.