“The U.K. government has issued a Public Interest Intervention Notice (PIIN) on Nvidia's proposed $40 billion takeover of chip designer Arm on national security grounds. The notice was issued by Britain's Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden on Monday…”
“Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming service, previously known as xCloud, will begin rolling out in beta to iPhones, iPads and PCs this week. The service will be invite-only to start, Microsoft said in a blog post on Monday…”
“Under the cover of launching a little-known feature, the social media giant has been funneling money to America’s biggest news organizations—and hanging the rest of the press out to dry. Over the past two decades, as Big Tech has boomed, news organizations have been going bust…”
“Announcements are coming on Monday, but some products won’t show up for a while. Facebook wants you to start talking, and listening, on Facebook…”
“When you’re in an unexplored wilderness, you’d better be quiet, because you never know whether there might be dangerous predators lurking. Unfortunately, Earth has not been following this cautionary principle so far: we’ve been broadcasting radio waves into space for more than a century…”
“An NFT artwork created by Edward Snowden has sold for $5.4 million in Ethereum. While the ACLU won that case, Snowden remains persona non grata in the US for his role in making the NSA's surveillance program public…”
“In some unfortunate medical news, it turns out that eating lots of delicious calorie- or sugar-rich snacks and junk foods can likely lead to neurological and cognitive impairments later in life…”
“For athletes trying to run fast, the proper shoe can be essential to achieving peak performance. For athletes trying to run as fast as humanly possible, a runner’s shoe can also become a work of individually customized engineering…”
“Authorities in Texas say two people were killed when a Tesla with no one in the driver’s seat crashed into a tree and burst into flames, Houston television station KPRC 2 reported…”
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“Federal officials are investigating a security breach at software auditing company Codecov, which apparently went undetected for months, Reuters reported…”
“Officers raided the illegal weapons workshop in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands and arrested the owner, who has been charged with illegal possession of weapons and explosives…”
“Google shifted more than $75.4 billion (€63 billion) in profits out of the Republic using the controversial “double-Irish” tax arrangement in 2019, the last year in which it used the loophole…”
“Climate change, technology, disease and financial crises will pose big challenges for the world, an intelligence report concludes. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values…”
“Can we do it? The tweet follows his February speech this year, when he also used the social network to claim that Bitcoin failed as a store of value. The publication generated revolt in an ‘old friend’ who countered him, the author of the book ‘The Bitcoin Standard’, Saifedean Ammous…”
“Four years ago, MasterClass, a platform that sells celebrity-taught classes, invited chess legend Garry Kasparov to teach a class. He said yes, but soon realized that creating a message that could satisfy a majority of players was a “struggle throughout the process.…”