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FCC Commissioner Says Government Should Ban TikTok
The Council on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) should take action to ban TikTok, Brendan Carr, one of five commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission, told Axios in an interview. “I don’t believe there is a path forward for anything other than a ban,” Carr said, citing recent revelations Read more…
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Elon Musk Says Twitter Blue Subscription, at $8 a Month, Will Feature Blue Checkmark and Cut Ads By Half
Big changes are underway at Twitter. Elon Musk, in a Twitter thread: Twitter’s current lords and peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month. Price adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity. You will also get: – Read more…
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US Banks Spent $1 Billion on Ransomware Payments in 2021, Treasury Says
US financial institutions spent nearly $1.2 billion on likely ransomware-related payments last year, most commonly in response to breaches originating with Russian criminal groups, according to the Treasury Department. The payments more than doubled from 2020, underscoring the pernicious damage that ransomware continues to wreak on the private sector. The Read more…
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Electric Scooter Ban Increased Congestion In Atlanta By 10%, Study Finds
A study published last week in the scientific journal Nature Energy studied the effects of traffic and travel time in a city when micromobility options like electric scooters and e-bikes are banned. The results documented exactly how much traffic increased as a result of people switching back to personal cars Read more…
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Scientists Find Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Hiding In the Sun’s Glare
A team of researchers has detected a trio of near-Earth asteroids in the inner solar system, one of which is the largest found since 2014 that poses a potential risk to the planet. The asteroids remained undetected until now because they occupy a region of the sky hidden by the Read more…