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A new version of the PACT Act, a bipartisan Section 230 reform bill, remains convoluted and bloated with destructive ideas that will spawn entirely new problems (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:A new version of the PACT Act, a bipartisan Section 230 reform bill, remains convoluted and bloated with destructive ideas that will spawn entirely new problems — Last summer we wrote about the PACT Act from Senators Brian Schatz and John Thune — one of the rare bipartisan attempts to reform Section…
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Joe Biden: A Chance to Save the Day

By Tim Echols Georgia leaders from both parties recognize that the supply chain for electric vehicles needs to go through our state. However, one ruling, by a little-known federal agency, has put the country’s green-energy goals and nearly 6,000 Georgia jobs at risk. The good news is that President Biden, who visits our state on…
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Hey, NTSB, Where’s The Evidence Tesla’s FSD Beta Is Dangerous?

Last week, it was revealed that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was asking the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to crack down on ADAS systems, specifically calling Tesla out for the supposed dangers of the FSD Beta program. The letter (like many other Tesla FSD criticisms) is bogus. I was going to get…
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Germany’s data protection watchdog tells European Parliament that Germany had “sent 50+ complaints about WhatsApp” to the Irish DPC and none had been closed (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:Germany’s data protection watchdog tells European Parliament that Germany had “sent 50+ complaints about WhatsApp” to the Irish DPC and none had been closed — Simmering tensions about alleged lack of enforcement by Dublin burst into public — Long-simmering tensions …

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Republic, which lets non-accredited investors invest as little as $10 in startups, raises $36M Series A led by Galaxy Digital; Republic has over 1M users (Matthew Leising/Bloomberg)

Matthew Leising / Bloomberg:Republic, which lets non-accredited investors invest as little as $10 in startups, raises $36M Series A led by Galaxy Digital; Republic has over 1M users — – Republic private investment has risen four times in last year — Broadhaven, Prosus also take part in latest funding round

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FBI says $4.2B in losses as a result of cybercrime and internet fraud were reported to its Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2020, up about 20% YoY (Jeff Stone/CyberScoop)

Jeff Stone / CyberScoop:FBI says $4.2B in losses as a result of cybercrime and internet fraud were reported to its Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2020, up about 20% YoY — American victims reported $4.2 billion in losses as a result of cybercrime and internet fraud to the FBI in 2020, a roughly 20% uptick…
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Olo, a provider of food-ordering software for restaurants, closed up 39% in its trading debut, after raising $450M in an IPO, valuing the company at $4.93B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:Olo, a provider of food-ordering software for restaurants, closed up 39% in its trading debut, after raising $450M in an IPO, valuing the company at $4.93B — Olo Inc., the food-ordering software company whose board members include Shake Shack Inc. founder Danny Meyer …

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AT&T says it will no longer exempt HBO Max from mobile data caps starting March 25, after a US court upheld CA’s net neutrality law; change will apply beyond CA (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)

Lauren Feiner / CNBC:AT&T says it will no longer exempt HBO Max from mobile data caps starting March 25, after a US court upheld CA’s net neutrality law; change will apply beyond CA — – AT&T will no longer exempt viewing of its HBO Max streaming service from data caps after a federal court upheld…
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Audi Gives Up On Combustion Engine Development — This Is Awesome

Audi is abandoning its development of combustion engines, Electrive reported. The article cited an interview that Audi’s CEO, Markus Duesmann held with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), where he confirmed that Audi is no longer developing internal combustion engines. This is great news! In the interview, Duesmann said, “We will no longer develop a new combustion…
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Samantha Reese: Connecting Science to Industry with Supply Chain Analysis

This story was originally published on JISEA.org. Since Samantha Reese was young, she loved to take things apart — toys, appliances, anything her parents would allow — and put them back together. Captivated by mechanics, she wanted to know where parts came from and how they worked together. This translated into a career as a clean…
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