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Ireland’s privacy watchdog says it is engaging with Twitter about giving data access to outsiders, amid concerns that Twitter could be in violation of GDPR (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Ireland’s privacy watchdog says it is engaging with Twitter about giving data access to outsiders, amid concerns that Twitter could be in violation of GDPR  —  Elon Musk’s desire to stir conspiratorial shit up by giving select outsiders aligned with his conservative agenda access to Twitter systems …

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Sources: LLC’s tied to crypto news site The Block’s CEO secretly received $43M in Alameda loans, used in part to acquire and run the site; CEO has now resigned (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Sources: LLC’s tied to crypto news site The Block’s CEO secretly received $43M in Alameda loans, used in part to acquire and run the site; CEO has now resigned  —  The Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with

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Apple agrees to remove concealment clauses from staff and contractor agreements, which limited the ability to speak about harassment and other unlawful conduct (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Apple agrees to remove concealment clauses from staff and contractor agreements, which limited the ability to speak about harassment and other unlawful conduct  —  Company responds to pressure over claims staff were restricted from discussing workplace harassment

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Turning a Toy Gamepad Into a Real One, With Bluetooth

It’s important to instill healthy habits in your children when they’re still young. Preferences for sports, snacks and dinosaurs are typically formed in early childhood, as is loyalty to a specific gaming platform. [RetrogradeScene] apparently wished to steer his young daughter towards the Nintendo camp, but wasn’t looking forward to having her grubby hands touch

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Auditing firm Mazars says Crypto.com users’ crypto assets are fully backed one-to-one, after vouching for a similar proof-of-reserves report from Binance (Nick Baker/CoinDesk)

Nick Baker / CoinDesk: Auditing firm Mazars says Crypto.com users’ crypto assets are fully backed one-to-one, after vouching for a similar proof-of-reserves report from Binance  —  The examination was done by auditing firm Mazars.  —  Crypto.com released proof-of-reserves data from auditing firm Mazars Group …

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Hackaday Podcast 196: Flexing Hard PCBs, Dangers of White Filament, and the Jetsons’ Kitchen Computer

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi start the Hackaday Podcast by talking about another podcast that’s talking about…Hackaday. Or more accurately, the recent Hackaday Supercon. After confirming the public’s adoration, conversation moves on to designing flexible PCBs with code, adding a rotary dial to your mechanical keyboard, and a simulator that

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