As Congress Dithers, States Step In to Set Rules for the Internet
Virginia, Florida, Arkansas and Maryland are among dozens of states that have introduced bills to curtail the power of Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter.
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May 14, 2021, 3:39 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON News outlets in Florida may soon be able to sue Facebook and Twitter if the social media companies take down their content.
Arkansans shopping on Amazon will be able to see contact information for third-party merchants, which the site won’t be required to show people outside the state.
Residents of Virginia can ask Google and Facebook not to sell their personal data, and the state can sue the companies if they don’t comply.
Spare Parts Logistics Market to Rear Excessive Growth During 2021 || UPS ,CEVA Logistics ,DB Schenker ,Toyota Tsusho ,FedEx
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Colonial Pipeline paid 75 Bitcoin, or roughly $5 million, to hackers.
The shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline triggered a cascading crisis that led to a jump in gas prices and panic buying at gas pumps.Credit.Erik S Lesser/EPA, via Shutterstock
May 13, 2021, 5:30 p.m. ET
Colonial Pipeline paid its extortionists roughly 75 Bitcoin, or nearly $5 million, to recover its stolen data, according to people briefed on the transaction.
The payment came after cybercriminals last week held up Colonial Pipeline’s business networks with ransomware, a form of malware that encrypts data until the victim pays, and threatened to release it online. Colonial Pipeline pre-emptively shut down its pipeline operations to keep the ransomware from spreading and because it had no way to bill customers with its business and accounting networks offline.
The Untold Story of the NFT Boom
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The New Digital Market
The Untold Story of the NFT Boom
Digital creators used the blockchain to create a whole new art scene. Then their work started selling for thousands sometimes millions of dollars.
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It was not quite 4 in the afternoon, and Victor Langlois, an 18-year-old cryptoartist, was at his desktop computer, watching a frenzied bidding war between two art collectors. Langlois known by his art name FEWOCiOUS, or Fewo, to his friends and fans was dressed in a white hoodie that he had designed, its arms covered in his own psychedelic art, including an eyeball and sunflower afloat in a blue sky. The room’s window had been covered with cardboard to keep things dark, and a string o