House subcommittee sends letter requesting Facebook halt Libra's development until Congress and regulators can investigate potential risks to the global economy
It's been two weeks since we introduced Libra … Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk : Twitter Study Finds US Posts Most on Bitcoin and Facebook's Libra ComputerWeekly.com : Why Facebook's Libra digital currency ...
Congress releases Zuckerberg's prepared testimony: “it's clear now that we didn't do enough” to protect data privacy, prevent fake news, election interference
so let's stop acting like he can't handle it. He can. Jeremy Kaplan / Digital Trends : Facing Facebook: Congress should take action to protect our privacy Levi Sumagaysay / Mercury News : Mark Zuckerb...
Intel revises roadmap for Spectre patches, now does not plan to patch some older chips including Yorkfield (2007), Bloomfield (2008), Intel Atom “SoFIA” (2015)
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Senate votes 50-48 to repeal Obama-era regulations requiring that ISPs ask before sharing customer data
and how to stop them Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard : The Motherboard Guide to VPNs Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek : Could Killing of FCC Privacy Rules Lead to End of Net Neutrality? Roger...
OpenAI open sources Universe, a training platform where AIs can learn to play games, use apps, and interact with sites; source code now available on GitHub
We're releasing Universe, a software platform … Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : Super Secretive Google DeepMind Open Sources AI Rocket Science Openai / GitHub : universe — Universe is a software...
Canadian government seeks public comment after explaining need for backdoors, mandatory decryption, longer storage of phone and ISP records, and more
Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware : Tweets: @billsourour , @counternotions , and @realrakhmetov Tweets: Bill Sourour / @billsourour : Fellow Canadians, please make your voices heard. Let us not follow i...
Intel unveils next-gen Xeon Phi chips for deep learning; Nvidia says Intel used old benchmarks in marketing; Xeon Phi chips seem to compete on price regardless
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BQ Aquaris E4.5, First Commercially Available Ubuntu Phone, Lands In Europe For 170 Euro
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