Biden’s major bipartisan infrastructure plan struck a rare chord of cooperation between Republicans and Democrats, but changes it proposes to cryptocurrency regulation are tripping up the bill. The administration intends to pay for $28 billion of its planned infrastructure spending by tightening tax compliance within the historically under-regulated arena of digital currency. That’s why cryptocurrency […]
Drunk-driving provision could fuel demand for driver monitoring technology
Companies developing driver detection technology could get a boost from a provision tucked inside the 2,702-page $1 trillion infrastructure bill that would require automakers to build into new cars technology that can tell if drivers have had a few cold ones. The provision in the bill, which is actually a piece of bipartisan legislation called […]
The State Department and 3 Other US Agencies Earn a D For Cybersecurity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that four of them earned grades of D, three got Cs, and only one received a B in a report issued Tuesday by a US Senate Committee. “It is clear th…
2030年時点の発電コストを再試算、実は太陽光は最も割高だった。経済産業省
経済産業省は7月に電源別発電コストの試算を発表し、太陽光発電は原子力発電よりコストが安価だとする内容を出していたが、再計算したところ全く異なる結果になったそうだ。この再計算の結果は、3日に行われた有識者会議で示されたもので、それによると太陽光は原発や液化天然ガス（LNG）火力に比べて割高になることが分かった。この差が発生した理由として、太陽光や風力は天候により発電量が大きく変動するが、これを補うための火力発電などによる調整コストを、それぞれも電源に上乗せして再計算したところこのような結果になったとし…
Passwordstate customers complain of silence and secrecy after cyberattack
It has been over three months since Click Studios, the Australian software house behind the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, warned its customers to “commence resetting all passwords.” The company was hit by a supply chain attack that sought to steal the passwords from customer servers around the world. But customers tell TechCrunch that they are […]
The Case for Another Antitrust Action Against Microsoft
“Since its own brush with antitrust regulation decades ago, Microsoft has slipped past significant scrutiny,” argues a new article from The Atlantic.
But it also asks if there’s now a case for another antitrust action — or if we’re convinced in…
US Justice Department Says Russians Hacked Its Federal Prosecutors
In January America’s federal Justice Department said there was no evidence that Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds breach had accessed classified systems, remembers the Associated Press. But today?
The department said 80% of Microsoft email …
China roundup: Keep down internet upstarts, cultivate hard tech
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The tech industry in China has had quite a turbulent week. The government is upending its $100 billion private education sector, wiping billions from the […]
Government Denies Blue Origin’s Challenge To NASA’s Lunar Lander Program
The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday denied protests from companies affiliated with Jeff Bezos that NASA wrongly awarded a lucrative astronaut lunar lander contract solely to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. CNBC reports: “NASA did not violate procur…
The RapidSOS EC-1
Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as 911, the emergency number for the United States. Few want to dial it, but when they must, it works.