Is the promise of jobs worth all the water and chemicals it takes to manufacture chips in the Arizona desert?
After being fined $3.5 billion by the EU for ad tech abuse, the search giant is, begrudgingly, proposing changes:
For example, we are giving publishers the option to set different minimum prices for different bidders when using Google Ad Manager [... and] increasing the interoperability of our tools to give publishers and advertisers more choice and flexibility.
New industry-backed research shows how waste from deep-sea mining could have far-reaching effects on fish and their food.
“All these nuke bros who know nothing about operating a reactor, they just want a free pass,” Allison Macfarlane, former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, tells Bloomberg. “They can have their free pass, but then they will have an accident.”
Italian regulators announced an age verification system that will be rolled out on November 12th to prevent minors from accessing around 50 websites that host pornographic content. The UK and France introduced similar rules this year, both resulting in a significant spike in VPN downloads.
