The White House says 10M+ households have enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill, for broadband discounts (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
The White House says 10M+ households have enrolled in the Affordable Connectivity Program, funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill, for broadband discounts— The White House is taking a victory lap…
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A look at OneTrust, BigID, TrustArc, and others that help businesses navigate the increasingly fragmented privacy rules and policies of the global internet (David McCabe / New York Times)
Microsoft cancels in-person plans for CES, joining Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitter and more, amid lingering concerns over COVID-19 – Microsoft joins Intel, GM, Amazon and Google in canceling – Microsoft is…
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The DoD took back the 175 million IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump’s last day; The DoD says its timeline was “agnostic” the change of administrator (Craig Timberg / Washington Post)
The DoD took back the 175 million IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump’s last day; DoD says its timeline was “agnostic” to board change– Control…
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DuckDuckGo appears to have completely removed search results for YouTube-dl and many popular pirate sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x.to and Fmovies (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
DuckDuckGo appears to have completely removed search results for YouTube-dl and many popular pirate sites, including The Pirate Bay, 1337x.to, and Fmovies.– Privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed search…
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Belgium’s data watchdog fines IAB Europe €250K after finding its ad-targeting tool violated GDPR and orders changes within two months (Stephanie Bodoni/Bloomberg)
Belgium’s data watchdog fines IAB Europe €250K after finding its ad-targeting tool violated GDPR and orders changes within two months— IAB Europe, an association for online advertising companies, was fined…
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Mexico-based Flat.mx, an online real estate marketplace for remodeled properties, raises $ 20 million from Series A led by Anthemis and 500 startups (Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch)
Mexico-based Flat.mx, an online real estate marketplace for refurbished properties, raises $ 20 million in Series A led by Anthemis and 500 startups– Flat.mx, which wants to create a real…
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Report: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft laying undersea fiber optic cables helped increase data capacity by 41% in 2020 while reducing costs (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Report: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft Installing Undersea Fiber Optic Cables Helped Increase Data Transmission Capacity by 41% in 2020 While Cutting Costs— The Big Four Tech increasingly dominate the…
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Faros AI, which offers an analytics tool for engineering teams, raises a $16M seed led by SignalFire and releases an open source version of its tool (George Anadiotis/ZDNet)
Faros AI, which offers an analytics tool for engineering teams, raises a $16M seed led by SignalFire and releases an open source version of its tool— What if what you…
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Let’s stigmatize the internet – The New York Times
after thoughts It’s time to put our extreme online year (and myself) behind us. April 29, 2021 It should have come as a surprise to anyone who’s ever been on…
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Sydney-based Immutable, which has developed Ethereum-based tools to monetize NFTs in games, raises $ 60 million (Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat)
Sydney-based Immutable, which developed Ethereum-based tools to monetize NFTs in games, raises $ 60 million– A new GamesBeat event is just around the corner! Learn more about what comes next….
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