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ProtonMail is under fire for disclosing a French activist's IP address to Swiss authorities; ProtonMail had claimed to only log IPs in “extreme criminal cases” — ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple Watch Series 7 will be announced alongside the new iPhone, but production issues may cause the new models to ship late or in limited quantities — The Starters — Apple Inc. and Tesla Inc. have a lot in common, but there's much to be desired — oddly enough — when it comes to how their products work together.
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Analysis: mining bitcoin uses 91 TW/h of electricity annually, ~0.5% of all electricity consumed globally or 7x Google's total usage, and grew 10x in five years — In 2009, you could mine one Bitcoin using a setup like this in your living room. — ↓ — ↓
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| Kathryn Dill / Wall Street Journal: |
Harvard study details how automated hiring systems, now used by 99% of Fortune 500 companies, exclude 10M+ qualified workers in the US from hiring discussions — Automated-hiring systems are excluding many people from job discussions at a time when additional employees are desperately needed
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Researchers uncover BrakTooth, 16 flaws in Bluetooth firmware in SoC boards used in billions of devices from 11 top vendors that can allow remote code execution — A team of security researchers has published details this week about a suite of 16 vulnerabilities that impact the Bluetooth software stack …
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the substrates that connect chips to circuit boards, and how years of underinvestment in substrate manufacturing has worsened the global chip shortage — Sourcing a low-margin part called the substrate has become a priority for Intel, Nvidia and AMD
Tweets: @wsj and @hassankhan
| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
CoinGecko: Solana's SOL token has more than tripled in value over three weeks and has a $45B+ market cap, making it the seventh most valuable cryptocurrency — - Solana's SOL has tripled in price over the past three weeks — Limelight increasingly falling on tokens other than Bitcoin
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Deep dive on AWS, with margin estimates for specific services including S3, EC2, and EBS, as AWS has made up over half of Amazon's operating profit since 2014 — - Amazon's cloud division doesn't break out gross margins by services, but some outsiders estimate that storage and network offerings could be highly lucrative.| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
JD.com says founder and CEO Richard Liu will step back from day-to-day operations to focus on long-term strategy and names its first president — E-commerce company names its first president facing tougher competition, Beijing's regulatory crackdown — Chinese e-commerce group JD.com Inc. named …
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JD.Com, Inc.. More:
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Regulators rush to catch up with DeFi startups and crypto-backed lenders like BlockFi, which now touts $10B+ in assets, 450K+ clients, and licenses in 28 states — The boom in companies offering cryptocurrency loans and high-yield deposit accounts is disrupting the banking industry and leaving regulators scrambling to catch up.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
A look at the evolution of App Store rules from 2009, when FCC investigated Apple's refusal to approve Google Voice, to the recent antitrust-related changes — - In the past few weeks, Apple has made several changes to its App Store rules, allowing a larger number of companies to access … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Apple made an unforced error by trying to tackle CSAM and child safety issues without soliciting expert advice while adhering to its annual iOS release schedule — Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. — Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, AppleInsider, Pocketnow, and Techaeris
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