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Elon Musk and SEC settle; Musk admits no guilt, will remain Tesla CEO, has to resign as Chairman for 3 years, appoint 2 new independent directors, pay $20M fine — The Securities and Exchange Commission has settled charges with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to court documents filed on Saturday …
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EU enacts law enabling cross-border recognition of national electronic IDs, like driver licenses and bank cards, in tax filing, medical records, public services — About Trust services and eIdentification — As of 29 September, the EU-wide legislation on the electronic identification … | Brett Solomon / Wired: |
Digital ID systems, as they are being developed today, are ripe for exploitation and abuse; citizens must advocate for principles that shield fundamental rights — THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT, real-world benefits to having an accepted and recognized identity. That's why the concept of a digital identity …
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How the security breach that made 50M Facebook accounts vulnerable to takeover worked and what information may have been accessed — FACEBOOK'S PRIVACY PROBLEMS severely escalated Friday when the social network disclosed that an unprecedented security issue, discovered September 25, impacted almost 50 million user accounts.
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| Matt Roush / TechCentury: |
Guardhat, a Detroit-based developer of a smart hard hat that monitors worker safety and health in industrial settings, raises $20M Series A — DETROIT — Guardhat, developer of a smart hard hat that monitors worker safety and health in industrial settings, announced it had closed a $20 million Series A funding round.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
NYC's 1,600 LinkNYC kiosks, which replaced aging city payphones and provide free Wi-Fi and US phone calls, are now seeing 5M users and 500K phone calls a month — In 2014, in a bid to replace the more than 11,000 aging payphones scattered across New York City's pedestrian walkways … | Wall Street Journal: |
WSJ found ~$90M in criminal proceeds from fraud or hacks like WannaCry, laundered via 46 crypto exchanges; US-based ShapeShift processed $9M in suspect funds — Journal investigation documents suspicious trades through venture capital-backed ShapeShift — A North Korean agent … | Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Satellite communications company Iridium partners with AWS to develop CloudConnect, a satellite-based network for IoT applications, expected to launch in 2019 — - Iridium is partnering with AWS to develop a satellite-based network called CloudConnect for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.| Tarmo Virki / Reuters: |
Estonia sues Gemalto for €152M over security flaw that made the country's citizen ID cards vulnerable to hacking last year — Estonian police are seeking to recover 152 million euros ($178 mln) in a lawsuit filed on Thursday against digital security firm Gemalto, following a recall …
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Inside Bentonville UP, a secretive conference attended by reps from Airbus, Google, Uber, NASA, US Air Force, and more to discuss innovation in flying cars — MOST DAYS, THE Bentonville Municipal Airport in Arkansas is a pretty quiet place, servicing the occasional small private airplanes that pass through …
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| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Gremlin, whose tools help app and online service providers simulate failure scenarios like storage error, database congestion, and outages, raises $18M Series B — “Slack is down.” It's a headline we have had blaring at TechCrunch on numerous occasions (mostly because we actually get work done …
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| Tim Berners-Lee: |
Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data, and Inrupt, a startup to guide the project — I've always believed the web is for everyone. That's why I and others fight fiercely to protect it.
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