📄 Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over
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Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over. The Department of Defense announced Tuesday it’s calling off the $10 billion cloud contract that was the subject of a legal battle involving Amazon and Microsoft. But it’s also announcing a new contract and soliciting proposals from both cloud service providers where both will likely clinch a reward. (Lauren Feiner via CNBC)
YouTube's recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study. For years YouTube's video-recommending algorithm has stood accused of fuelling a grab-bag of societal ills by feeding users an AI-amplified diet of hate speech, political extremism and/or conspiracy junk/disinformation for the profiteering motive… (Natasha Lomas via TechCrunch)
Russian state hackers breached Republican National Committee. Russian government hackers breached the computer systems of the Republican National Committee last week, around the time a Russia-linked criminal group unleashed a massive ransomware attack, according to two people familiar with the matter. (William Turton via Bloomberg)
Haiti President Jovenel Moïse Assassinated at Home, Official Says. Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his residence, the country’s interim prime minister said on Wednesday, plunging the unstable Caribbean nation into fresh political turmoil. (Wall Street Journal)
Bitcoin power plant is turning a 12,000-year-old glacial lake into a hot tub. The fossil fuel power plant that a private equity firm revived to mine bitcoin is at it again. Not content to just pollute the atmosphere in pursuit of a volatile crypto asset with little real-world utility, this experiment in free marketeering is also dumping tens of millions of gallons of hot water into glacial Seneca Lake in upstate New York. (Tim De Chant via Ars Technica)
Twitter shares its ideas around new privacy features, including a way to hide your account from searches.T witter today has shared a few more ideas it's thinking about in terms of new features around conversation health and privacy. This includes a one-stop “privacy check-in” feature that would introduce Twitter's newer conversation… (Sarah Perez via TechCrunch)
Fintech darling Wise lists at $11 billion valuation, testing London's ambition as a tech hub and turning its 2 founders into billionaires. UK fintech Wise – formerly TransferWise – floated on the London Stock Exchange Wednesday. The money-transfer business is pursuing a direct listing instead of a traditional IPO. The listing is the latest test of the London market as it… (Callum Burroughs via Business Insider)
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