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Amazon sues NY state AG, seeking to prevent her from penalizing Amazon for alleged retaliation against staff and failures in its safety response to the pandemic (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Amazon sues NY state AG, seeking to prevent her from penalizing Amazon for alleged retaliation against staff and failures in its safety response to the pandemic  —  – Covid-19 worker safety claims are federal matters, Amazon says  — Company has been at odds with AG since firing worker activists Amazon sues

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Hackaday Podcast 105: 486 Doom on FPGA, How Thick is Your Filament, Raspberry Pi Speaks Android Auto, and We’re Headed to Mars

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams unpack great hacks of the past week. We loves seeing the TIL311 — a retro display in a DIP package — exquisitely recreated with SMD electronics and resin casting. You might never need to continuously measure the diameter of your 3D printer filament, but just in case there’s

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Jack Dorsey and Jay Z create ₿trust endowment with 500 bitcoin, worth $23M+, to fund teams working on Bitcoin development, initially in Africa and India (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch: Jack Dorsey and Jay Z create ₿trust endowment with 500 bitcoin, worth $23M+, to fund teams working on Bitcoin development, initially in Africa and India  —  Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper Jay Z have created an endowment to fund bitcoin development initially in Africa and India, Dorsey said Friday. Jack Dorsey

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Scientists said claims about China creating the coronavirus were misleading. They went viral anyway.

Yan’s work, which was posted to the scientific research repository Zenodo without any review on Sept. 14, exploded on Twitter, YouTube and far-right websites with the help of such conservative influencers as Republican strategist Stephen K. Bannon. Scientists said claims about China creating the coronavirus were misleading. They went viral anyway. Source: Washington Post Tech

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Dublin’s smart trash cans found a new purpose in the pandemic: Snitching

This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Dublin’s solar-powered Bigbelly bins were already smart, sending

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Sources: Qualcomm has told regulators around the world, including the FTC and UK's CMA, that it is against Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm (Sam Shead/CNBC)

Sam Shead / CNBC: Sources: Qualcomm has told regulators around the world, including the FTC and UK’s CMA, that it is against Nvidia’s $40B acquisition of Arm  —  – Qualcomm has told regulators around the world that it is against Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm, according to sources familiar with the

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Spotify says it is adapting a Work From Anywhere model and will provide co-working space memberships for employees who choose to work remotely (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)

Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Spotify says it is adapting a Work From Anywhere model and will provide co-working space memberships for employees who choose to work remotely  —  – Spotify is adapting a “Work from Anywhere” model, which will allow employees to choose whether they want to be in the office full time, be at

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This Week in Security: Morse Code Malware, Literal and Figurative Watering Holes, and More

Code obfuscation has been around for a long time. The obfuscated C contest first ran way back in 1984, but there are examples of natural language obfuscation from way earlier in history. Namely Cockney rhyming slang, like saying “Lady from Bristol” instead of “pistol” or “lump of lead” instead of “head”. It’s speculated that Cockney

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