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| Javier E. David / CNBC: |
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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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
EU's privacy watchdog says Facebook notified them about breach on Thursday evening; experts say that seems to comply with GDPR and may limit exposure to fines — Privacy watchdog looks into whether social network violated European's Union new privacy law — A European Union privacy watchdog …
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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.
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| Abigail Geiger / Pew Research Center: |
Survey: the percentage of US adults using the internet (89%), smartphones (77%), and social media (69%) has plateaued and remains nearly unchanged since 2016 — The use of digital technology has had a long stretch of rapid growth in the United States, but the share of Americans who go online … | Eric Nuzum / Audio Insurgent: |
Despite some worries about falling ad prices, podcasting audiences and ad budgets are growing as the medium matures and moves past the gold rush stage — What tulips, cryptocurrency, and bespoke home-delivered dog food can tell us about the resilience of audio and the madness of crowds
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
NYC's 1,600 LinkNYC kiosks, which replaced aging city payphones and provide free Wi-Fi and US phone calls, are now seeing 5M users and 500K phone calls a month — In 2014, in a bid to replace the more than 11,000 aging payphones scattered across New York City's pedestrian walkways …
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| 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 …
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| Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum: |
Amazon VP of Robotics Brad Porter on the company's robotics efforts and how it is using machine learning to deal with misplaced inventory in fulfillment centers — Amazon's chief roboticist discusses the latest advances in the field and how his team is using machine learning to make its robots smarter
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| Alyssa Hertig / CoinDesk: |
A major vulnerability present in Bitcoin codebase for 2 years and patched last week has prompted a heated debate on how to improve Bitcoin's code review process — “Shock” is perhaps the word that best describes the mood ever since one of bitcoin's most severe bugs was discovered and patched last week.
Tweets: @darrenmills and @coindesk
| 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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| Matt Roush / TechCentury: |
Guardhat, a Detroit-based developer of a smart hard hat that monitors worker safety and health in industrial settings, raises $20M Series A — DETROIT — Guardhat, developer of a smart hard hat that monitors worker safety and health in industrial settings, announced it had closed a $20 million Series A funding round.
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