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November 8, 2021, 4:45 AM

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Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
The US infrastructure bill amends tax code section 6050I to require certain recipients of digital assets worth $10K+ to report sender details to the IRS  —  The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill that contains a controversial cryptocurrency tax reporting requirement.
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
House passes $1T+ bipartisan infrastructure bill, with a controversial crypto tax provision and $65B in broadband funding; Biden could sign the bill within days  —  - The House passed a more than $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
The NFT.NYC conference, now in its third year, was a coming-out party for the NFT community, attracting a record 5,000 attendees from artists to corporate suits  —  NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.
Brian Barrett / Wired:
The FBI and DHS say a drone dangling copper wires tried to disrupt a PA power substation in July 2020, the first drone attack targeting US energy infrastructure  —  An attack attempt in 2020 proves the UAS threat is real—and not enough is being done to stop it.
Matt Burgess / Wired:
A look at the fight between city officials and parents over Stockholm's glitchy app for its schools, as annoyed parents built their own open source version  —  Stockholm's official app was a disaster.  So annoyed parents built their own open source version—ignoring warnings that it might be illegal.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage  —  The world is hungry for semiconductors, and not all of them need to be made with cutting-edge technology.  The race is on to find older machines that can still crank out chips.
Sarah Gooding / WP Tavern:
A recently unredacted antitrust complaint alleges that Google gives AMP a “nice comparative boost” by throttling load times of non-AMP ads via one-second delays  —  The Chrome Dev Summit concluded earlier this week.  Announcements and discussions on hot topics impacting …

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