“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
― Jon Stewart
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez goes over the FTX timeline.
It may come as a surprise, but MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) in emerging markets are one of the biggest contributors to their economy - almost 40% of their GDP and 60% of total employment. This is after the fact that 70% of them lack access to credit and basic financial services.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued new guidance last week aimed at one of the most problematic practices.
CBDCs could be the next big thing for governments and financial institutions.
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Mark Zuckerberg shouldn't have to explain the internet to Congress. It's high time we made tech literacy a requirement for running for office.
In a nutshell, governments cannot take away your Bitcoin
Facebook has agreed to eliminate features in its advertising business that allow advertisers to discriminate against groups of people.
Newly laid-off workers face crashes, long load times, and messages offering phone callbacks as states struggle to adjust
A closer look on how to protect your property from eminent domain.
If you are a current or former Chase customer and familiar with those periodic "a secure message from Chase" email notifications, this one would've better caught your attention, if not your spam filter's. Thankfully for me, it was sent to a Gmail address I had not used with Chase online banking since 2014 or so. This instantly indicated the attackers had prior knowledge of my Gmail address having been used with Chase online banking in the past.
This was my third invitation to attend IT Arena in Lviv, Ukraine. But this was the first time, and indeed a first for me overall that it happened during a war.
Here are the know the reasons behind the US government's positive stance on remote work policies.
Starting on the 15th of June, the Italian Government enabled nationwide downloads of their Contact Tracing app, Immuni. The app allows for effortless tracing of SARS-Cov-2 virus.
In 2019, the value of U.S. venture capital investments was $108 billion. In the same year, the federal government spent $131 billion on research and development.
A group of bipartisan lawmakers hopes to pass antitrust legislation that takes aim at tech giants buying out the competition and hoarding data.
For the purposes of this essay, both neural networks and a nonspecific future artificial intelligence will be called “AI”.
Smith is, after all, one of history’s most misused economists, straw-manned by the left and worshipped by the right for saying things he didn’t say.
Regulators and those in software companies have often struggled to find peace with each other, as unlike previous technologies, the software moves exponentially faster and works under new business models that previous regulations did not account for. That is why Zuckerberg, who tried to avoid regulations in the past by being more transparent than incumbents, has been asking regulators to take a “more active role” and work together towards regulating the internet.
US President Donald Trump has attempted to monopolise a coronavirus vaccine currently being developed by a German pharmaceutical manufacturer, in what the press are now referring to as a “filthy proposal in times of pandemic”. The President, who initially dismissed the novel coronavirus as something outside the realm of his concern, has left the world in shock with his handling of the unprecedented health crisis so far, with the US’s closest ally the UK in “disbelief” at the President’s incredibly slow response and his tweets, which initially sought to downplay the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Learn what the history of the field of thermodynamics can teach us about the technological adoption battles we're facing today - especially in Bitcoin.
Outlines First Whole-of-Government Strategy to Protect Consumers, Financial Stability, National Security, and Address Climate Risks.
The insular nature of the crypto-industry can often discourage potential investors, but digital assets are at an adoptive inflection point. Regulation can help.
In short, many members of Congress beat the market in 2021. They traded more than ever before.
And they made numerous unusually timed trades and huge gains.
Only 41 warrants that could clearly constitute a geofence warrant.
“The blockchain cannot be described just as a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the force of its progression.” In these words, William Mougayar, one of the greatest proponents of blockchain, praises the colossal impact of the decentralized ledger on everything.
I have been in a dilemma For months about whether I should invest in cryptocurrency or not.
The largest role playing game in the world is, and has always been, politics.
Thoughts on the US Federal Reserve's CBDC paper and request for comments from the writer of the Digital Universal Drachma white paper.
The new multi-agency effort will increase government analyses of lending patterns with an eye toward fair lending.
In this thread, our community discusses quantum computers and their impactful uses.
As the global financial crisis accelerates, cryptocurrency has returned to mainstream public discourse. You know bitcoin has reached some level of legitimacy when Bloomberg Radio quotes its price.
'Chancellor on Brink of Second Bailout for Banks'
The world has experienced a giant digital transformation and almost no aspect of life has been untouched by this technological change. Not only do we use all kinds of tech in our daily lives, but technological tools and devices have found a central position in professional spaces as well. In fact, one might argue that the business and administrative industry has endured the greatest degree of change due to this digital transformation.
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Long wait times, passwords sent by mail, and shutdowns thwart applicants
Unprecedented.
Since the invasion of Ukraine on February 2022, Russia has faced an array of sanctions from the international community.
Bitcoin is now worth over $8,500. As such, it is only natural that this community-driven alternative to banks has drawn interest from traders, investors, and even regulators. Governments are concerned about Bitcoin, sprouting blockchain networks, and how it could impact their operations. Here, it is important to note that the control of money supply is vital for a centralized economy to thrive.
In the 1980s, the US military first coined the term ‘OSINT’. Since then, the dynamic reform of intelligence has been beneficial in many different scenarios.
Currently, the UK economy is living through tough times.
Comment comes as part of big tech CEO grilling by antitrust committee
COBOL is in the news again. Millions of people are filing unemployment claims nearly all at once, and the systems to process them are failing. Why? They need to scale to unprecedented levels, they’re written in COBOL, and… we don’t have enough COBOL programmers.
This is a written recap of a discussion organized by Dominicans on Wall Street, a non-profit organization, between legal experts, venture capitalists, and government officials. The author has no vested interest in any of the projects mentioned and does not offer investment advice.
I Interview Gerard Dache of the Government Blockchain Association, who promote blockchain technologies to solve public sector challenges around the world.
Making the transition to a work from home arrangement has been a heavy lift for a lot of organizations.
In a letter last week, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) detailed his committee’s findings on tenant reports from 10 companies.
Government's around the world are preparing to roll out their respective CBDCs. It's important to understand some of the risks associated with this development
A federal study found that police surveillance oversight is outdated as it doesn't take into account modern technology.
Billionaires matter in America. Ignore them at your own risk.
“Bitcoin ought to be outlawed.”
A practitioners manual with tips and best practices to leverage TikTok for good, for government, and for social impact.
Technologies from the so-called fourth industrial revolution (4IR) could “escape our power to master” said the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Klaus Schwab.
DevOps provides a collaborative approach to development and operations so government IT can adapt to today’s challenges and prepare for new digital threats.
Why the Government Blockchain Association are transitioning toward a two token DAO based system, and will be taking their model to the highest authorities.
Arvind Narayanan discusses whether or not political candidates use psychological tricks in their e-mails to supporters.
With a new political wind blowing through Brazil, we need to ask: What impact might Lula's election have on the buzzing startup ecosystem?
The federal government represents a massive market opportunity for commercial tech companies. But many aren’t sure how to get started and are left asking themselves how to become a government contractor.
Anyone who has seen the movie The Imitation Game, or studied computer science in school, probably has at least a brief understanding of Enigma, Alan Turing, and some of the other fun cryptography that went on during WWII. During this time and until the 1970's, governments from around the world had near total control of all cryptographic systems.
With the ability to read, write, and edit the code of life, the so-called biorevolution can lead to advances in human longevity and overall prosperity.
Punk goes over why the freedom to transact is so important.
Balaji goes over the differences between 51% democracy and 100% democracy.
We want to know the ways one state’s testing procedures may vary from a neighbor’s, and the reasons why.
Amazon lists its own brands and exclusives above competing products with better ratings.
While Israel faces massive cyber attacks, Israel’s Ministry of Communications debates transferring invoices from mail to e-mail.
Cryptocurrency (crypto) has become persona non grata in the capital due to the FTX collapse.
★In this article we will learn about PII should be Identified, collected, analyzed, used, and PII/SPII handled on different projects of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Editor's note: On April 23, Congress allocated an additional $370 billion for nonprofits and small businesses under the CARES Act: $310 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and $60 billion for Emergency Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).
Public Policy is quite an obscure profession. It hides in plain sight. Most people don’t realize that there’s a piece of sophisticated machinery that constantly shapes the world they live in — a system under but also beyond politics. So let’s define it first. Public policy is any state-initiated and state-executed intervention to get a certain outcome. This outcome could be a lot of things — increase in literacy, reduced corruption, increase in exports, people using products made within the country, and so on. All of them, in theory, have the long term good of the citizens as an ever-present overarch.
When a culture of risk aversion creates risk of harm
In Techlore Talks #4, Henry and I discussed freedom of speech, anonymity on the internet, and the content moderation policies of online platforms.
Five scenarios that show the differences in states’ testing algorithms
On Jan. 18, following nail-biting negotiations involving CEOs, a Cabinet secretary and White House aides, an eleventh-hour agreement averted these threats ...
Here you will learn our current relations with the state and how that is going to change with the development of new technologies.
The following black swan events, if they occur, may have far-reaching effects on the state of the global economy in 2023.
The 10 Perfect Reasons for Focusing on Funding from the Federal Government in Times of Crisis (or Not).
Got Big Dreams? Find Your Ecosystem
Hi readers, today, I’m publishing a letter that I penned with Nate D’Anna, co-founder and co-CEO of Dumpling, about Prop 22 and the status of gig workers.
ProPublica researches whether the FCC is protecting cellphone companies.
In this slogging thread, we discuss government policy surrounding Covid-19. We look at the UK governments recent policy to scrap isolation after a positive test
Censorship is on the rise as technology gets more advanced. We’re going to explore some key areas where censorship exists today, how censorship impacts everyone, and the domino effects that occur. We’re also taking a look at technology based solutions enabling powerful - not perfect - anti censorship tools for citizens.
This past week, U.S. regulators issued a new cryptocurrency ruling and denied the last of the bitcoin ETF proposals.
What the United States’ children’s privacy law does and doesn’t do
In this article, we'll investigate the four major areas where Biden's national AI strategy applies and how the new policies will affect us.
How can we access this data correctly? Without simplifying it or opening this door, information is just bits.
The count is going mostly digital for the first time. Oh, and there’s a pandemic
From NASA to the NSA, data science is being employed by the governments of every major country to inform policy, provide public services and, in some cases, surveil ordinary people. In the United States in particular, it underpins many of the public sector’s most important functions, whether we citizens are aware of it or not.
What will it mean to regulators and Wall Street/Main Street investors when crypto assets meet the physical economy?
Bitcoin is NOT the silver bullet for El Salvador’s economic woes — here’s why.
You may think the U.S. presidential election is under dispute. It’s not.
Lawmakers allege abuse of monopoly power and political bias
