Zack Budryk writes via The Hill: The Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act, sponsored by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), would require between 25 to 30 of the U.S. corporations responsible for the most greenhouse gas pollution to pay $300 billion into a fund o…
The IRS Has Seized $1.2 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency This Fiscal Year
The U.S. government regularly holds auctions for its stockpile of bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and other cryptocurrencies it seizes and then holds in crypto wallets. “In fiscal year 2019, we had about $700,000 worth of crypto seizures. In 2020, it was u…
NYT Crossword Puzzle No Longer Works In Third-Party Apps
People will no longer be able to play the digital version of The New York Times daily crossword puzzle in third-party apps, according to an announcement made by the Times on Monday. The Verge reports: Starting August 10th, the crossword will be availab…
Firefox Lost Almost 50 Million Users In 3 Years
An anonymous reader quotes a report from It’s FOSS, written by Ankush Das: Mozilla’s Firefox is the only popular alternative to Chromium-based browsers. It has been the default choice for Linux users and privacy-conscious users across every platform. H…
Google+ Class Action Starts Paying Out $2.15 For G+ Privacy Violations
Ron Amadeo writing via Ars Technica: Who remembers the sudden and dramatic death of Google+? Google’s Facebook competitor and “social backbone” was effectively dead inside the company around 2014, but Google let the failed service hang around for years…
Colleges Across the US and Canada Are Adopting Virtual Student IDs
Apple Wallet is expanding access to its contactless student IDs, a feature it first debuted in 2018. A number of U.S. universities are adopting the new format for the first time. Apple Wallet student IDs will also arrive in Canada later this fall. The …
Miami Launches ‘MiamiCoin’ Cryptocurrency
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: [Miami has] launched its own cryptocurrency, MiamiCoin, which claims to allow city citizens to earn Bitcoin “in their sleep.” On Tuesday, Okcoin was the first crypto exchange to list MiamiCoin. The …
Law School Applicants Surge 13%, Biggest Increase Since Dot-Com Bubble
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The number of people applying for admission to law school this fall surged nearly 13%, making it the largest year-over-year percentage increase since 2002, according to the latest data from the Law Scho…
‘Totally New’ Idea Suggests Longer Days On Early Earth Set Stage For Complex Life
“A research team has proposed a novel link between how fast our planet spun on its axis, which defines the length of a day, and the ancient production of additional oxygen,” reports Science Magazine. “Their modeling of Earth’s early days, which incorpo…
Study: Which Countries Will Best Survive a Collapse?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Will civilization as we know it end in the next 100 years? Will there be any functioning places left? These questions might sound like the stuff of dystopian fiction. But if recent headlines …