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1. The Fight Is on to Save Access to WHOIS: A Call to Action for Brand Owners
(English/CircleID)

... Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross also weighed in, imploring the European Commission to take action. Now that we know the thoughts of WP29, which, after May 25, 2018 (the date that the GDPR goes into ...

2. Why Getting Awards Wrong Undermines the Integrity of the UDRP
(English/CircleID)

... weighed the difference between "predators and parasites" and "innocent and good faith registrants." These are the bookends the World Intellectual Property Organization wrote into its Final Report (April ...

3. Zuckerberg: Facebook will not stop spying on Americans to comply with EU privacy law
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... the penalties for violating the GDPR are incredibly draconian, the benefits of such surveillance would surely be outweighed by the risk of getting it wrong. (more…) Read all  ...

4. CTS who? AMD brushes off chip flaws with firmware patches
(English/TheRegister)

Just give it a few weeks notice next time, not 24 hours AMD has finally weighed in with its opinion of the security flaws in its Epyc, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile chips, identified in a rather over-the-top ...

5. Shiny Side Up
(English/WTF)

... to create the beast known as CD-ROM. Click-and-point adventure games, encyclopedias, choppy full-motion video ... in some cases, ambition far outweighed capability. Advances in technology made the media ...

6. It's Called Abstraction, and It's a Good Thing
(English/WTF)

... downloader weighed in at about 5,000 lines of Perl code. In the whirlwind tour, Steven asked Bob about the complexity. “It’s not complex. Each class is extremely simple. Well, aside from the config file ...

7. The Internet's Obesity Crisis
(English/CircleID)

... connections, so they were forced to wait 30 seconds and beyond for many of these fancy new web pages to display. For example, in 2001, the home page of Wal-Mart weighed 238 kilobytes, which, for a dial-up ...

8. Vulnerabilities of Weak Marks and Uncurated Websites
(English/CircleID)

... the Complainant's allegations, this is outweighed by the fact that the disputed domain name is [a] common three-letter acronym and there is no evidence whatever to link the Respondent's selection ...

9. Apple Watch Series 3 gets kitesurfer out of shark-infested waters
(English/Neowin)

After wiping out off the coast of California, a kitesurfer weighed down with gear found himself in the middle of the nursing area of a great white shark. A few quick calls later and he was safe. Read ...

10. Google Can, at Least for Now, Disregard Canadian Court Order Requiring Deindexing Worldwide
(English/CircleID)

... harm in the absence of preliminary relief, (3) the balance of equities weighed in its favor, and (4) an injunction was in the public interest. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes ...

11. Lenovo Legion Y920 Review – A Big, Bulky Gaming Laptop Powerhouse
(English/ChipChic)

... weighed […] This story was originally published at Lenovo Legion Y920 Review – A Big, Bulky Gaming Laptop Powerhouse Read all  ...

12. OnePlus vows to stop collecting data from OxygenOS devices
(English/Neowin)

After OnePlus drew widespread ire regarding its collection of data from devices running OxygenOS, co-founder Carl Pei has weighed in, promising to put an end to the practice by the end of this month. ...

13. Icon on Fire
(English/WTF)

... 50 student images displayed, the payload of the HTML and assets was a whopping 452KB. That was the HTML and assets… except for one file. The favicon.ico weighed in at 307kb. Apparently, at some point ...

14. Samsung and Intel file amicus briefs against Qualcomm, supporting FTC's antitrust action (Ian King/Bloomberg)
(English/Techmeme)

... South Korean firm is one of biggest users of Qualcomm chips  —  Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp. weighed in with their own gripes … Read all  ...

15. When Computers Fly
(English/WTF)

... had been that their street wasn’t very busy. He had run the cable across the street, and weighed it down with rocks, thinking that would be safe. Since that put some tension on the cable, he didn’t ...

16. Three signs your product's development is broken
(English/Betanews)

... meeting arbitrary progress points passed down from above. What’s the end result? You’ve developed a product weighed down by unnecessary features that may fit into corporate’s strategic plan but don’t fit ...

17. AI will make and break the job market
(English/Betanews)

There’s a heated debate going on whether artificial intelligence will cause people to lose jobs or create new jobs instead. Well, IT consultancy firm Infosys has weighed in on the debate, releasing the ...

18. Shedding Light on How Much Energy the Internet and ICTs Consume
(English/CircleID)

... argued that all the skyscraper's environmentally friendly add-ons — the waterless urinals, the daylight dimming controls, the rainwater harvesting — were outweighed by the fact that the building ...

19. There Is No Cuban Home Internet Plan - And That's Good News
(English/CircleID)

... is a clip from that speech. In 1997, the Cuban government decided that the political risk posed by the Internet outweighed its potential benefit and decided to suppress it. At the same time, China opted ...

20. Recomendo newsletter: Free books, the Exploratorium, and more
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... One time when I did this, the guy sitting in the seat (he was probably 6’5” and weighed 300 pounds) leaned over and said conspiratorially, “No one will sit here. It’s always the last seat they take.“ — ...

21. George Hotz wants Comma AI to be the Android of autonomous driving
(English/engadget)

... He also weighed in on California's regulat... Read all  ...

22. How the Slow Adoption of the Cloud Has Impacted 3 Industries
(English/CircleID)

... of industries that are feeling a little more weighed down than their cloud-bound compatriots: 1. Finance & Banking At first, you might think the folks at the teller stand are in fact using a ...

23. Sony boss points the finger at No Man's Sky marketing strategy
(English/Neowin)

President of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida has weighed in on the saga involving No Man's Sky while Sony continues to resist issuing refunds to disappointed gamers. Read more... Read all  ...

24. UDRP Complaints: Getting it Right the First Time; Second Chance With New Facts
(English/CircleID)

... begin using them in bad faith. Federal courts have weighed in on this issue in a couple of notable decisions. While trademark registrations represent the kinds of new facts that support refiling, changed ...

25. NASA satellite snaps the first methane leak detected from space
(English/gizmag)

Methane's concentration in the atmosphere might be outweighed and outlasted by the more bountiful CO2, but this greenhouse gas is perfectly capable of doing some damage while it's up there. ...