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Source: The Verge The House Committee on Homeland Security is looking into Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) surveillance network in the wake of a report that nearly one-third of the agency’s cameras along the US-Mexico border don’t work. Privacy advocates say this is just the latest instance of expensive border surveillance infrastructure not working as…
Source: Venture Beat GamesBeat lead writer Dean Takahashi, sat down with Xsolla CMO, Berkley Egenes, to dig into the latest Xsolla news. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge Amazon says that it has gotten rid of plastic air pillows at its warehouses. “As of October 2024, we’ve removed all plastic air pillows from our delivery packaging used at our global fulfillment centers,” the e-commerce giant said in an October 9th blog post. It’s a welcome change following years of pressure…
Source: Venture Beat Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 8 Elite, which it claimed is the world’s fastest mobile centralized processing unit (CPU). Read Full Article
Source: Coin Tegraph The exchange asked regulators to disclose documents relating to an ongoing crackdown on crypto companies among US banks. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat Attention, developers: you can now get your hands on Elon Musk’s Grok 2 multimodal language model through his startup xAI’s new API. Read Full Article
Source: Live Mint HOUSTON -Oil prices rose nearly 2% on Monday, recouping some of last week’s more than 7% decline, with no let-up of fighting in the Middle East and expected Israeli retaliation on Iran worrying markets about supply from the region. Brent crude futures were up $1.44, or 1.97%, at $74.48 a barrel at…
Source: Bitcoinist The crypto market is a highly speculative community. A lot of what-if scenarios are constantly thrown at the wall as investors wonder “what could be” for their favorite cryptocurrencies. This time, the question is, “How high will the Shiba Inu price be if it rises to XRP’s $30.5 billion market cap?” Let us…
Source: Coin Tegraph Chris Larsen suggested that Democratic lawmakers could have a “new approach to tech innovation” under a Kamala Harris presidency starting in 2025. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25691806/Screenshot_2024_10_21_at_1.46.42_PM.png?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Streamer’s apology for racist rant exposes the rot in streaming culture")
Source: The Verge Last week, top Twitch streamer Zach Hoyt, better known as Asmongold, went on a racist rant against Palestinians, expressing apathy for the relentless military campaign against them that has claimed over 40,000 lives, many of them children. “I don’t give a fuck,” he said. “They’re terrible people.” Hoyt is known for his…
