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Two groups of senators say they are nearing a last-minute deal on crypto oversight, but an agreement may come too late to get added to the infrastructure bill — - Senators say they are nearing last-minute crypto compromise — The amendment may not get called up for a vote in Senate
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| Washington Post: |
How the cryptocurrency industry gained influence in Washington and became one of the biggest stumbling blocks holding up the passage of the infrastructure bill — The infrastructure bill is in part stalled as negotiations proceed on how closely to regulate the crypto industry
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
An overview of Apple's three new “child safety” initiatives, what critics are getting wrong, and the completely legitimate slippery slope concerns from experts — Apple yesterday announced three new “Child Safety” initiatives: … (CSAM stands for Child Sexual Abuse Material — a.k.a. child pornography.
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| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
[Thread] Apple's child safety protections announcement hurt the effort to find a policy balance on safety and privacy aspects of e2e encrypted comms products — The chatter around Apple's recent announcement of new child safety protections is rather frustrating, as the amplification/knowledge ratio seems rather high on this one. Apple's docs: https://www.apple.com/... A discussion with friends: https://twitter.com/...
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Light Blue Touchpaper, Louis Rossmann/YouTube, TechRadar, Financial Times, HackRead, iMore, MIT Technology Review, IT PRO, and AppleInsider
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| Apple Privacy Letter: |
More than 5,500 individuals and organizations sign an open letter asking Apple to halt the implementation of its proposed content monitoring technology — Security & Privacy Experts, Cryptographers, Researchers, Professors, Legal Experts and Apple Consumers Decry Apple's Planned Move …
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Call center operator Teleperformance, which counts Apple, Amazon, and Uber as clients, wants to monitor staff working from home in Colombia, via AI-powered cams — Colombia-based call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some of the nation's largest companies …
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Slashdot. Tweets: @oliviasolon, @buttermilk1, @oliviasolon, @jathansadowski, @carnage4life, @techwontsaveus, @nandelabra, @evacide, @oliviasolon, @dangillmor, @hypervisible, @carnage4life, and @foxcahn
| Ankush Das / It's FOSS News: |
Firefox for Desktop lost ~46M MAUs, dropping from ~244M MAUs in Dec. 2018 to ~198M MAUs in July 2021, as users moved to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers — Mozilla's Firefox is losing users big time since 2018, why are users moving away from it? Is this something to be worried about?
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PC Gamer, Tom's Guide, KnowTechie, Gizmodo, TechRadar, Game Rant, and TechSpot
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| Reuters: |
China sues Tencent, claiming WeChat's “youth mode” does not comply with the country's laws protecting minors — Beijing prosecutors initiated a civil public-interest lawsuit against a Tencent (0700.HK) subsidiary on Friday, saying the “youth mode” on the company's popular social …
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Engadget, DealStreetAsia, Neowin, The Verge, Associated Press, Bloomberg, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @brianfagioli and @reutersbiz
| Bloomberg: |
Despite claims of diversity and inclusion, Asian Americans in Silicon Valley still face racism and are least likely to break into leadership positions — Tech companies love to crow about diversity and inclusion. Workers see a racist “bait and switch.” — Silicon Valley executives sometimes seem …
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| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis of e-receipts from 1M+ consumers shows that the average Uber and Lyft fares in the US were 50% higher in July 2021 compared with January 2020 — Data show average fares were at a record in July despite improvement in pandemic-driven shortage of drivers| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba fires manager who is accused of rape by a female employee, after the allegation led to a police investigation; two execs also resigned for mismanagement — - Female staff accused boss of rape after drinking with client — Two executives who mishandled allegation have also resigned
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CNBC, ZDNet, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Benzinga, The Economic Times, and Wall Street Journal
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Kitchen automation has risen during the pandemic, with robots from Miso Robotics, Chowbotics, and other startups now replacing some jobs in fast food chains — Fast-food chains are working with a host of startups to bring automation to their kitchens — In a White Castle just southeast of Chicago …
Tweets: @wsj, @mileskimball, @mims, @mims, and @mims
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