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In a filing, Amazon discloses that EU privacy regulators levied a record $888M fine for violating GDPR data storage rules in a July 16 decision — - Luxembourg watchdog wields new powers with highest data fine — Fine follows probe based on complaint by French privacy group
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Physicists say they used Google's quantum computer to demo a time crystal, which forever cycles between states without consuming energy, for the first time — Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy.| Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times: |
New book claims Elon Musk demanded to be made Apple CEO during Tesla buyout talks in 2016, before Tim Cook cursed and hung up; Musk says he never spoke to Cook — Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century — If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission …
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SEC has stopped processing IPO and other registrations by Chinese companies as it crafts guidance for companies about the risks they face in China — (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has stopped processing registrations of U.S. initial public offerings (IPOs) …
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| Nathaniel Taplin / Wall Street Journal: |
China's crackdown on its tech giants could backfire, leaving Beijing with a seriously damaged consumer sector and slow-growing chip and robotics companies — When a government comes to believe it can snap its fingers and create—or destroy—whole industries at will, things can easily go awry
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| Tim Perry / HTTP Toolkit: |
Safari's extremely slow pace in adopting popular features and fixing showstopping bugs, and refusal to engage with contentious API proposals, is harming the web — There's been a lot of discussion recently about how “Safari is the new IE” (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). — I don't want to rehash …
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| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
A look at the development of an Amazon warehouse in Windsor, CT, where the discovery of multiple nooses on site raises questions about Amazon's responsibilities — The discovery of multiple nooses has set off heated debates about the responsibility of companies and the ability of workers to speak their mind.
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| Tom Wilson / Reuters: |
Binance says it will wind down futures and derivatives trading in Europe, amid regulatory pressure; users will have 90 days to close from a date specified later — Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Friday it would wind down its futures and derivatives products offerings across Europe …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
In an email to creators, audio app Fireside, funded by Mark Cuban, says it is accepting investments through August from anyone who is interested — It hasn't even launched publicly yet — The Mark Cuban-funded and co-founded audio app Fireside has yet to publicly launch …
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
48 civil rights and advocacy groups ask the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology and continuous corporate surveillance of public space — The open letter uses Amazon as a case study to argue that corporate surveillance technologies cause immense harm and fall under the FTC's authority to ban.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Snap says it resolved an issue that prevented some Snapchat users from logging in and advises users to manually update the app if the issue persists — Snap resolved an issue preventing users from logging in — Snapchat experienced a massive issue Thursday evening, with more than 125,000 users reporting problems on Downdetector.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Twitter offers bug bounty of up to $3,500 to spot bias in its photo cropping algorithm, which was shown to favor white people over Black people — Twitter has a new way to rid itself of artificial intelligence bias: pay outsiders to help it find problems. On Friday, the short-message app … | Stephan Kahl / Bloomberg: |
Germany to allow institutional funds, which currently manage a total of ~$2.1T, to hold up to 20% of their holdings in Bitcoin and other crypto assets — - Law would let billions of euros flow into crypto assets — Spezialfonds effected currently manage 1.8 trillion euros| Eric Seufert / @eric_seufert: |
[Thread] Facebook's future prospects remain strong as the secular rise of digital advertising blunts any headwinds from regulators, Apple, critics, and others — My takeaway from $FB earnings: Facebook will inevitably become the most important company in the lives of most people on Earth for the next 20-30 years. I don't see any credible, extant mechanism that can constrain its growth (1/X)
| Daniel Estrin / NPR: |
Source: NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients globally from using its technology as the company investigates their possible misuse — Israeli spyware company NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its technology …
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