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From France24:

Saudi authorities said Monday only people immunised against Covid-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round umrah pilgrimage from the start of Ramadan, the holy fasting month for Muslims.

The hajj and umrah ministry said in a statement that three categories of people would be considered "immunised" -- those who have received two doses of the vaccine, those administered a single dose at least 14 days prior, and people who have recovered from the infection.

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Supreme Court has released its opinion on GOOGLE LLC v. ORACLE AMERICA, INC. Read it for yourself here.

There are a couple of good threads about it. Here is the more technical one:

GOOD morning, everyone -

Google v Oracle is out. I'm going to walk through the decision for you now. This is a quick first read, without even a skim.

In other words, I will almost certainly miss stuff, some important, in this thread.https://t.co/9p1zEbmqkG

— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 5, 2021

Here is a more chatty explainer:

OK, re #GoogleVsOracle perhaps worth a quick thread about what APIs actually are and why it matters so much for interoperability in tech that Google won on this

— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) April 5, 2021