Google plans to spend $9B in Oklahoma over two years on cloud and AI infrastructure, including on building a data center campus and expanding its Pryor facility
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Crypto exchange Kraken begins rolling out commission-free trading for over 11,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs, initially in nine US states and DC
with zero commissions. Available in select U.S. states Learn more: https://www.kraken.com/stocks [video] @bloombergtv : “A lot of people think of crypto and traditional equities and traditional financ...
After nine months with Starlink, the Marubo, an Indigenous Amazon tribe, faces challenges like addiction and concerns about potential loss of cultural identity
it turns out, many of the same challenges that have racked Americans for years (teens glued to phones, gossip-filled group chats ...).https://www.nytimes.com/ ... Phillip Crenshaw / @pcmugwort1 : @Jon...
How Vermont lawmakers passed a strict online data privacy law despite significant pushback from the tech industry; GOP Gov. Phil Scott is yet to sign the bill
State lawmakers from Maine to Oklahoma say the lessons they learned from battling industry over privacy bills can provide a new playbook to fight back. Forums: r/UpliftingNews Forums: r/UpliftingNews ...
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signs a bill protecting bitcoin rights, ensuring the right to self-custody, transact, and mine bitcoin, effective November 1, 2024
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Integris Health, Oklahoma's largest not-for-profit health network, confirms a November cyberattack resulting in stolen data, after patients get extortion emails
Integris Health patients in Oklahoma are receiving blackmail emails stating that their data was stolen in a cyberattack …
Hochatown, a tiny town in Oklahoma that gets ~50K visitors to its 2,400+ cabins on weekends, highlights the “Airbnb effect” of rentals exploding in rural areas
https://lnkd.in/gPT5ZJPY Julie Satow : I didn't believe it when I was told there was a tiny enclave in Oklahoma that went from zero to half a million dollars a month in sales tax. …
Analysis: 50%+ of the areas covered by the FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund had been fully or partially covered by at least one prior US broadband program
Flaws in government programs have left some residents behind — The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars on several rounds … Tweets: @karlbode , @dannydougherty , @ryanjtracy , @will_flannig...
MFS Africa, a digital payments network in Africa, acquires Oklahoma-based Global Technology Partners, which makes prepaid and mobile payments software, for $34M
David Pilling / Financial Times :
The EU and US reach a preliminary deal to store data about Europeans on US soil, after the EU declared the previous pact illegal in 2020
leaving U.S. companies in the lurch. https://twitter.com/... @dcms : We welcome the announcement of an agreement in principle on adequacy between the EU and the US Global events show that it is more i...