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Elon Musk and SEC settle; Musk admits no guilt, will remain Tesla CEO, has to resign as Chairman for 3 years, appoint 2 new independent directors, pay $20M fine — The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled charges with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to court documents filed on Saturday …
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| Tim Berners-Lee: |
Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data, and Inrupt, a startup to guide the project — I've always believed the web is for everyone. That's why I and others fight fiercely to protect it.
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| Digital Single Market: |
EU enacts law enabling cross-border recognition of national electronic IDs, like driver licenses and bank cards, in tax filing, medical records, public services — About Trust services and eIdentification — As of 29 September, the EU-wide legislation on the electronic identification … | Brett Solomon / Wired: |
Digital ID systems, as they are being developed today, are ripe for exploitation and abuse; citizens must advocate for principles that shield fundamental rights — THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT, real-world benefits to having an accepted and recognized identity. That's why the concept of a digital identity …
Tweets: @je5perl
| Wired: |
How the security breach that made 50M Facebook accounts vulnerable to takeover worked and what information may have been accessed — FACEBOOK'S PRIVACY PROBLEMS severely escalated Friday when the social network disclosed that an unprecedented security issue, discovered September 25, impacted almost 50 million user accounts.| Guy Rosen / Facebook: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
WSJ found ~$90M in criminal proceeds from fraud or hacks like WannaCry, laundered via 46 crypto exchanges; US-based ShapeShift processed $9M in suspect funds — Journal investigation documents suspicious trades through venture capital-backed ShapeShift — A North Korean agent … | Eric Adams / Wired: |
Inside Bentonville UP, a secretive conference attended by reps from Airbus, Google, Uber, NASA, US Air Force, and more to discuss innovation in flying cars — MOST DAYS, THE Bentonville Municipal Airport in Arkansas is a pretty quiet place, servicing the occasional small private airplanes that pass through …
Tweets: @wired
| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Satellite communications company Iridium partners with AWS to develop CloudConnect, a satellite-based network for IoT applications, expected to launch in 2019 — - Iridium is partnering with AWS to develop a satellite-based network called CloudConnect for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.| The Verge: |
A look at how HSI, the investigative arm of ICE, used a New Deal-era warrant called the customs summons to help shutdown South Korean spycam porn site Soranet — How did US customs officials get involved in taking down a South Korean porn site? — Over the course of this summer …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Gremlin, whose tools help app and online service providers simulate failure scenarios like storage error, database congestion, and outages, raises $18M Series B — “Slack is down.” It's a headline we have had blaring at TechCrunch on numerous occasions (mostly because we actually get work done …
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| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Bytedance, a China-based social news and video startup that may soon surpass Uber in valuation if rumored $1.5B SoftBank investment at $75B closes — - Bytedance's said to be valued at over $75 billion in new round — SoftBank is said to plan an investment of about $1.5 billion| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Profile of Kathryn Haun, a former prosecutor who created US' first federal “digital currency task force” and now an a16z partner investing in crypto startups — “Let's settle this!” an announcer rumbles over loudspeakers. — The “this” in question is one of the more important business disputes …
Tweets: @rhhackett and @katie_haun
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