You have to love the logic there – the claim is we must keep requirements in place forever because of problems that will happen at some point in the future, so we have to keep punishing non-compliance now even though it has no other function and mostly annoys everyone.

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In late 2014, a number of technology-oriented companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, eBay, and Yahoo! announced that they were ending their ties to ALEC. Multiple companies cited environmental concerns as a point of contention with the organization

Many ALEC legislators say the organization converts campaign rhetoric and nascent policy ideas into legislative language.[5]

Measures Considered: Endless Frontier Act: Senate began consideration of S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for Tech-nology and Innovation in the National Science Foun-dation, to establish a regional technology hub pro-gram, to require a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, innovation, manufac-turing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, after agreeing to the mo-tion to proceed, withdrawing the committee re-ported amendment, and taking action on the fol-lowing amendment proposed thereto: Pages S2555–69 Pending: Schumer Amendment No. 1502, in the nature of a substitute. Page S2568

The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 1157

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e noted the lack of data on human reliability in life sciences laboratories in contrast to data from other well-researched sources such as the nuclear, chemical, and transportation industries. Those data show that human error is the most common cause of accidents. To use an example from the life sciences, it is more common for a lab worker not to use a powered air purifying respirator (PAPR) properly than for a PAPR to be defective. He also cited the difficulty posed by having no risk benchmark for work with wild type pathogens and the difficulty posed by restriction of the RBA to influenza and coronaviruses.

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Dr. Wolinetz stated that some GOF experiments had raised safety and security concerns about whether they could result in engineered pathogens capable of causing a pandemic if accidentally or deliberately released. T

Jo Handelsman from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy believed this to be a landmark meeting, one that could direct future policy in important ways. She noted that the White House has focused on issues around GOF research for 18 months and recognizes the need to keep life sciences vibrant but also to protect safety and security across the globe. Officials had become engaged because of concerns around the creation of new pathogens, especially those with pandemic potential. The White House has also worked to address safety incidents at laboratories that raised public concerns over work with such pathogens (Holdren and Monaco, 2014). In response to these concerns, in October 2014 the White House announced a deliberative process and, along with it, a pause on federal funding for certain types of GOF research (White House, 2014a). Dr. Handelsman highlighted the importance of key exceptions to the funding pause to enable necessary emergency research to continue.

Dr. AL-Hmoud stressed the public health impact of coronaviruses, in particular MERS-CoV, and she recalled that the antigenic relationships among the different coronaviruses or how these relationships influence the capacity of different strains to emerge in human populations remains uncharacterized.

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imilar to Illinois, that mandates an agency or agencies report on potential government applications of blockchain.

consortium of state and county governments to research and understand blockchain and its potential impact on the function of agencies.

Amending Electronic Records and Signatures Legislation to Include Blockchain and Smart Contract

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The Texas Division of Banking has provided early and meaningful guidance for money transmitters in the virtual currency industry

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Furthermore, through coordination with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), virtual currency mining data centers are able to turn off during peak demand thereby preventing the need to turn on less efficient peak demand power plants. They can also allow ERCOT to stabilize and predict demand when it is low.

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(Placing bets on FTX, both for and against Trump at various points, he netted a “nontrivial” profit.)

Going into the evening, he thought Trump had a 30 percent chance of winning.

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The Bureau has also determined that this Policy Statement does not impose any new or revise any existing recordkeeping, reporting, or disclosure requirements on covered entities or members of the public that would be collections of information requiring approval by the Office of Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act.

Reporting by Dustin Volz, John Walcott, Mohammad Zargham and Eric Walsh in Washington, and Jessica Toonkel in New York; Writing by Susan Heavey and Eric Walsh; Editing by Frances Kerry and Peter Cooney

First on CNN:

The Clinton campaign has claimed the hack as proof that the Russians are trying to aid the election of Donald Trump.

The Times, in its report, disputed CNN's report that the Times was bringing in private cybersecurity investigators to assist. Law enforcement officials briefed on the matter earlier told CNN that the Times had indicated it was bringing in private sector cybersecurity consultants to investigate.

The Times, in its report,

"We are constantly monitoring our systems with the latest available intelligence and tools. We have seen no evidence that any of our internal systems, including our systems in the Moscow bureau, have been breached or compromised," Murphy said.

Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said the company had seen "no evidence" that any breaches had occurred of the Times's internal systems. CNN's report didn't say that the Times internal systems were breached, but that reporters were targeted.

The FBI declined to comment.

The Times said email services for employees are outsourced to Google. CNN requested comment from Google but didn't receive comment. The FBI declined to comment.

targeting news organizations as part of a broader series of hacks that also have focused on Democratic Party organizations,

The intrusions, detected in recent months, are under investigation by the FBI and other US security agencies.

The New York Times and other US news organizations, according to US officials briefed on the matter.

Hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence have carried out a series of cyber breaches targeting reporters at The New York Times and other US news organizations, according to US officials briefed on the matter.

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First on CNN: FBI investigating Russian hack of New York Times reporters, others

As Matt Taibbi observed way back in 2009 in the midst of the previous bailout, “By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future. There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. In the age of CDS [credit-default swap] and CDO [collateralized-debt obligation], most of us are financial illiterates. By making an already too-complex economy even more complex, Wall Street has used the [2008] crisis to effect a historic, revolutionary change in our political system – transforming a democracy into a two-tiered state, one with plugged-in financial bureaucrats above and clueless customers below.” [10]

The last time the financial press indulged in massive coverage of BlackRock was during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, when numerous financial pundits were exchanging gossip about Fink’s desire and potential to be Hillary Clinton’s Treasury Secretary.

The New York Times attempted to assure readers that BlackRock “won’t be making a mint off the Federal Reserve” and “will earn relatively modest fees” for helping the Fed “run a bond-buying program to steady markets unsettled by the pandemic.”

on March 27 – the same day that the U.S. Congress approved the bailout bill making BlackRock a key financial overseer – Canada’s publicly-owned central bank, the Bank of Canada (BoC), suddenly announced that BlackRock will act as its advisor for a new quantitative-easing (QE) program for corporations – basically a money-spigot for a struggling corporate sector.

What do you wish people knew about your startup? Blockchain isn’t the ‘thing.’ It’s the thing that gets us to the thing.

“If you look at tax laws, securities laws, if you look at compliance obligations, there are a lot of examples of regulators and policymakers who have tried to take this new asset class and shoehorn it into existing regulatory requirements… The more that people are informed and have a working knowledge of how this technology works, I think we’ll have a marketplace and regulatory environment that will promote innovation of blockchain technology in the U.S.”

Bitcoin mining is still at risk of centralization through possible state level coercion and vertical and horizontal integration.

A small group of computer illiterate politicians, driven by fear and images of dying people have thrown the United Kingdom into chaos. They did this on the evidence of a thirteen year old computer programme written in the C language that has no comments, and that no one has seen or audited to ensure its basic assumptions are correct. This tragic event, which has cost the United Kingdom billions, is a perfect example of why critical software must be open source and open to peer review before it is accepted for any purpose where human life is at stake.

"The First Amendment and Supreme Court decisions protect the news media in their reporting on matters of public interest, so you really have to show actual malice and disregard for the truth that would be very blatant and very provable," said Gene Policinski, senior vice president of the First Amendment Center.

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I obtained Nakamoto's email through a company he buys model trains from.

Nakamoto refused to say any more, and the police made it clear our conversation was over.

It seemed similarly implausible that Nakamoto's first response to my knocking at his door would be to call the cops.

It seemed ludicrous that the man credited with inventing Bitcoin - the world's most wildly successful digital currency, with transactions of nearly $500 million a day at its peak - would retreat to Los Angeles's San Gabriel foothills, hole up in the family home and leave his estimated $400 million of Bitcoin riches untouched.

"What?" The police officer balks. "This is the guy who created Bitcoin? It looks like he's living a pretty humble life."

which in October shuttered the online black market Silk Road and seized its $3.5 million cache of Bitcoin. "The FBI is now one of the largest holders of Bitcoin in the world," Andresen says.

Of course, there is also the chance "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a pseudonym, but that raises the question why someone who wishes to remain anonymous would choose such a distinctive name.

"You want to know about my amazing physicist brother?" says Arthur Nakamoto, Satoshi Nakamoto's youngest sibling, who works as director of quality assurance at Wavestream Corp., a maker of radio frequency amplifiers in San Dimas, Calif.

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State of the Network has predominantly focused on the network and market data happenings of the crypto industry. In this issue, we zoom out a bit to discuss the business trends and strategies of the exchanges building atop these decentralized protocols.From a standing start in October 2008, the cryptocurrency exchange industry has matured at an astonishing pace. But there is no guarantee that this maturation is sufficient for cryptocurrency exchanges to remain independent indefinitely. 

“We’re limiting ourselves in thinking about bitcoin as just money, or as just transactional exchanges. It is so much more. We have to start thinking, not just money, but a full digital rights network, a full transaction network for FILES that link to redeemable contracts. Then we’ll start actually understanding what this is all about.” — Satoshi Nakamoto to Nick Szabo, 2015

The Trust considers the following entities, their directors, and employees to be related parties of the Trust: DCG, Genesis, and Grayscale. As of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, 12,606,247 and 12,617,869 Shares of the Trust were held by related parties of the Trust, respectively.

Ethereum and other smart contracting blockchains have failed to scale or provide any tangible benefits over the bitcoin blockchain itself. We are building a smart contract platform the way it should have been built the first time. On top of bitcoin.

The main job of TXO is to take a raw Bitcoin transaction and transform it into a structured format on top of which we can run all kinds of powerful query, processing, and filter.

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It stated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement rated China’s aggressive and wide-ranging espionage as “the leading threat to U.S. technology.”

never implicated in any wrongdoing by congressional or Justice Department investigators.

EXCLUSIVE: Commerce pick tied to China cash

Meanwhile, President Obama on Tuesday issued a waiver of a 1999 defense export-control law that will allow the transfer of U.S. high-technology goods to China.

The babushkas on the bridge were pointing at the soldiers, sitting on top of their tanks and armored personnel carriers, asking them, "Who sent you? Why are you here?" Or even worse, "Does your mother know you're here?"

Gorbachev insisted he had the support necessary to go ahead with the signing of a new union treaty that would reshape the Soviet Union as a more loosely bound connection of sovereign states.

Eileen O'Connor, a CNN national correspondent based in Washington, spent seven years in CNN's Moscow bureau, the last three as bureau chief. Her coverage of the August 1991 Soviet coup earned CNN a Peabody Award.

"I've expanded the definition of words themselves, using 'vulcanized' when I meant 'polarized,' 'Grecians' when I meant 'Greeks,' 'inebriating' when I meant 'exhilarating,'" Bush told the Radio-Television Correspondents Association annual dinner last month. "And you know what? Life goes on."

Rice dismisses reparations for slavery National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, one of the most prominent and influential blacks in the Bush administration, dismissed the idea Sunday of reparations to compensate the descendants of slaves.

In the past ten years, only eight companies have been caught misusing drivers’ information

Bitcoin purists would no doubt bristle at the encroachment of this centralized Bitcoin LBMA; not your keys, not your bitcoin. But the Bitcoin LBMA would attract most bitcoin liquidity. Institutional investors, say Grayscale or Paul Tudor Jones, will always prefer to buy bitcoins that are part of an approved chain of custody, just like they’ll always prefer to buy the LBMA’s good delivery gold. 

The net effect is that any bars held outside of London aren’t worth as much as the ones inside – they lack the LBMA’s imprimatur. If it can’t be traded in London, it isn’t as liquid. And so it’s not as valuable.

Bitcoin’s version of the LBMA would be made up of 10 or so approved exchanges and a few large non-exchange custodians.

The Clean Network Initiative: Another Nail in the Coffin of An Open Internet

The Woke: Unwitting Acolytes of the Western Tradition.

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it’s about writing the first draft of history. “I’m writing a lot when other people aren’t necessarily putting things out there,” he says. “You can be a great academic, but if you’re not writing all the time you’re not necessarily in people’s minds as someone they would want to ask a question to.

After the Fed began announcing a series of extraordinary measures to rescue the U.S. economy, Tankus wrote 21 long pieces in 31 days. “Sometimes that meant staying up until 5 or 6 a.m.,” he says. “It was unbelievable breakneck speed.”

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Chen and Gawker did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The FBI has declined to comment. Monsegur was unavailable for comment.

While agreeing to donate to an hacker’s benefit fund isn’t as alarming as, say, News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal, Chen’s efforts reveal the difficulty of working with and reporting on Anonymous, as well as the gray and often contradictory area in tabloid-driven journalism, where ethical boundaries are blurred for the sake of scoops and scandals. 

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