The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, to be funded via civil asset forfeitures, goes against bitcoiners' early skepticism of state overreach and market intervention
some in Congress — who don't think that the government has gone far enough. They're pushing for tens of billions of dollars in government money to be spent on acquiring bitcoin (and boosting their ow...
Telegram says it is blocking Kremlin-backed media outlets in the EU, including all RT channels, starting for users who signed in with an EU-based phone number
RT, in English, Spanish, Germany, French & Russia, have a colletive audience of over 1 million people via their official accounts. FWIW, these break EU sanctions https://www.politico.eu/... Derek Powa...
Mykhailo Fedorov cancels Ukraine's crypto airdrop plan, saying the government will instead announce, but not issue, NFTs to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces
🧠 The 4th cohort of Hype-Free Crypto kicks off later this month. Washington Post : Ukraine asked for donations in crypto. Then things got weird. Amelia Isaacs / AltFi : Ukrainian government to sell N...
Let's Encrypt warns phones running Android 7.1 or older won't connect to many secure websites starting in 2021 as they will no longer trust its root certificate
but there's a fix Rob Thubron / TechSpot : A third of Android devices will lose support for many secure websites next year Alan Martin / Tom's Guide : Your Android phone could have a big problem soon ...
Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video say they will reduce their streaming quality in EU to reduce traffic on the network, as millions are confined at home
for Now Mark Sweney / The Guardian : Amazon Prime Video to slow streaming to fight broadband overload Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : YouTube follows Netflix in limiting streaming quality amid coronavirus o...
Twitter shares draft of its new deepfakes policy for public input through Nov. 27, says it won't ban deepfakes but will label them and warn users before sharing
but won't remove them Paul Sawers / VentureBeat : Twitter proposes flagging deepfakes, but would only remove content that threatens harm Kate Cox / Ars Technica : Twitter wants your feedback on its pr...
Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content
Today we're announcing a ban on praise … Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms Reuters : Facebook bans white nationalism, w...
Mozilla's free encrypted file sharing service Firefox Send is now available to all Firefox users and has its own Send Android app in beta
Free Encrypted File Transfer Service Now Available For All Firstpost : Mozilla's self-deleting online link sharing service Firefox Send is now live Thomas Claburn / The Register : This is the Send, en...
FTC announces a new task force to monitor competition in “technology-related sectors” and says that it will look into previous mergers
Trump Turns on China Hawks as Huawei Doubles Down Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Critics Are Wary of the FTC's New Tech Antitrust Task Force Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast : Lina Khan, a Top Antitrust Thi...
Internal memo shows that Huawei demoted two employees and cut their monthly pay for using an iPhone to send New Year greetings from its official Twitter account
Not Its Gadgets Overshadow Tech's Big Trade Show Bloomberg : Huawei Demotes Workers for Tweeting From An iPhone Mark Jansen / Digital Trends : Huawei punishes two employees for an iPhone Twitter mista...