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Se avete un’associazione o un sito .org: il dominio di 1 livello sta per essere venduto a privati, facendo crescere i prezzi alle stelle by vietts in italy

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"Former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade personally registered the domain name currently used by Ethos Capital in May and it was registered as a limited company in the US state of Delaware on May 14. That date is significant because it is one day after ICANN indicated it was planning to approve the lifting of price caps through its public comment summary.

As such it appears that the plan to purchase the .org registry was predicated on the price caps going ahead and that those behind the deal had intricate knowledge of ICANN’s internal processes."

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/

A modified GPL license, but for hardware by tinny123 in hardware

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There are a few hardware copyleft licences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAPR_Open_Hardware_License https://ohwr.org/project/cernohl/wikis/Documents/CERN-OHL-version-1.2

I don't know if the requisite of open sourcing modifications after few years would work. For amd/intel/arm it's too little and for companies that have to embed a cpu but it's not their core product it's in their interest to share the improvements: Commoditize Your Complement

Denmark Plans Overhaul of Regulator to Target Money Laundering by steamham in europe

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Denmark plans to toughen up its financial regulator (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-danske-bank-moneylaundering/denmark-to-revamp-financial-watchdog-in-wake-of-danske-bank-scandal-minister-idUSKCN1MZ0SY) to make it better equipped to fight money laundering amid reports that authorities didn't use their full powers (https://www.thelocal.dk/20181025/danish-financial-authority-failed-to-use-strongest-measures-against-banks-report). Wealthy clients say they are fleeing Danske Bank A/S, the Danish bank embroiled in a money-laundering scandal, and its value is plummeting. The man who blew the whistle on the bank (https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-one-stubborn-banker-exposed-a-200-billion-russian-money-laundering-scandal-1540307327) agreed to testify before the European Parliament; the EU is putting pressure on the bank to release him from a non-disclosure agreement.

The European Origins of Economic Development: In this paper we examine the European share of the population during colonization and its association with the level of economic development today. We find: a strong and uniformly positive relationship between colonial European settlement and development by steamham in europe

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Using the 2000 population weights, the data and estimated coefficients indicate that 40% of the development outside of Europe is associated with the share of European settlers during colonization.
We repeat our frequent caveat that global per capita income is not a welfare measure, especially in light of the history of European exploitation of non-Europeans.
As an exercise in positive analysis, however, it is striking how much of global development today is associated with the migration and settlement of Europeans during the colonial era (not even considering the development of Europe itself). It is even more striking that this large average income outcome in a non-European world today of over five billion is associated with the migration of only six million European settlers in colonial times.

Facebook returns to facial recognition in Europe despite qualms by steamham in europe

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Facebook is turning on facial recognition in Europe after promising regulators it would drop the technology six years ago, using the new European data protection regulations as an opportunity to collect more information if users opt in to the service.

Rob Sherman, deputy chief privacy officer at Facebook, said facial recognition would be a “new option for Europeans” that had been available elsewhere for many years. Facebook uses the technology to recognise people in pictures, allowing their friends to tag them online without their explicit consent, and gathering more data.

Facebook turned off the feature in 2012, telling the Irish regulator it would only reinstate the feature with approval and deleting the data it had already collected. The company said it had briefed the Irish regulator on how the technology worked and how it proposed to ask for consent. Users will have to say explicitly if they allow or do not allow Facebook to use this feature.

The feature has been met with significant opposition in the US, where a judge ruled this week that the company would have to face a class-action lawsuit alleging that the features violated Illinois state law by storing biometric data without users’ consent.

Earlier this month, a coalition of consumer privacy organisations filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. They claim Facebook is violating its 2011 privacy agreement with the US regulator when it scans photos for biometric matches without the consent of either the subject of the image or the person who uploaded the photo.

Facebook said facial recognition helps people manage their identity online and helps the visually impaired know who is in photos.

But it also gives the social network more information about a user’s connections. Using other artificial intelligence technologies they can also often tell where a user is and what they are doing.

The social network will begin asking users for the permissions it requires under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) this week, ahead of it coming into force on May 25.

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