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Linkowisko 13# - Newsletter Artura Kurasińskiego

June 13, 2021

Dzień dobry! Oto weekendowa porcja linków do newsów i artykułów, które mnie zaciekawiły i uważam, że mogą się przydać Tobie aby lepiej zrozumieć otaczający nas świat.

Miłej niedzieli!

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The United States, Britain and other large, rich nations reached a landmark deal on Saturday to squeeze more money out of multinational companies such as Amazon and Google and reduce their incentive to shift profits to low-tax offshore havens.

Sztuczna inteligencja była wykorzystywana przez izraelskie wojsko do wyznaczania celów podczas prowadzenia ostrzałów na obiekty Hamasu w czasie ostatniego konfliktu w Strefie Gazy.

Chamath Palihapitiya says that the investment tool lets ordinary people get rich off startups. It may be hype—but hype can be its own economic engine.

A peek inside how YouTube tackled the 2008 to 2014 hypergrowth years with a unique set of rituals for everything from strategic planning to effective meetings.

The cheat-making group known as "Chicken Drumstick" made more than $70 million selling cheats for PUBG Mobile. This is the story of its rise and fall.

With iOS 15, your iPhone is still traceable through the Find My network even when the device is powered off. It seems that with iOS 15, the phone is not really fully ‘powered off’, it stays in a low-power state and acts like an AirTag, allowing any nearby iOS device to pick up the Bluetooth […]

A Fastly bug meant that a single customer changing their configuration caused chunks of the internet to go down.

Facebook is planning its first smartwatch with a detachable display containing a front and rear camera for capturing photos and videos and sharing them on services like Instagram.

Hackers stole source code from FIFA 21 and the engine that runs Battlefield, along with other internal tools.

The history of play-by-mail includes bribes, forgeries, and games that took years to finish.

Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game.

Facebook is going to launch a new interface for creators that shows how different fees affect their earnings on the platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced.

Substack has hired 'The Amazing Spider-Man' writer Nick Spencer to try to lure comic book writers to the platform.

The draft bills come after a more than year-long probe into Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google by a House panel.

Because of technology, the subscription economy is growing, and it's interesting how it affects B2B payments from the buy and sell side.

President Joe Biden is reducing some uncertainty faced by Chinese tech companies in the United States, erasing parts of the Trump-era legacy. The president signed an executive order revoking actions targeting TikTok, WeChat and other Chinese apps put forward by former President Donald Trump, according to a statement released by the White House on Wednesday. […]

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele plans to introduce legislation that will make it the world's first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.

Overlooking the Chinese regulatory concerns, bitcoin prices are surging 15% Wednesday amid historic adoption in El Salvador.

The Internal Revenue Service needs more authority from Congress to regulate the cryptocurrency industry and require more reporting on its users, Commissioner Charles Rettig said Tuesday.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit asking the court to declare Google a public utility, which would subject the Silicon Valley giant to government regulation.

E-commerce companies must offer more personal experiences to customers to compete post-COVID, writes Stitch Fix's incoming CEO.

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

LineStar Integrity Services was hacked around the same time as Colonial Pipeline, but radical transparency activists have brought the attack to light.

The 2021 edition of WWDC began Monday with a keynote address. Apple used the occasion to show off a whole bunch of enhancements to its software and services.

Technology giant Google was fined by France's competition watchdog for abusing its market position.

G7 finance ministers have agreed to work together to create a "level playing field" on global taxation.

The Blue Origin launch is set for July 20, two weeks after Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon CEO.

The U.S. military is expanding a development program that wants to leverage reusable rockets, like those of SpaceX, to deliver cargo anywhere in the world.

Microsoft Corp. blamed “accidental human error” for its Bing search engine briefly not showing image results for the search term “tank man” on the anniversary of the bloody military crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989

Apple claims its App Store is carefully curated so that only the best apps get through. The truth is, the App Store is littered with scams and "fleeceware," which uses fake user ratings to trick customers into paying for something they don't want.

The promise of a crackdown is sending the country's crypterati scrambling for the exit.

Inside the meteoric, chilled-out, totally paradoxical rise of Calm