The US states and the trade authority fail against Facebook in court. The Bitcoin compulsion in El Salvador is not coming. Dedicated Toshiba shareholders achieve historic success in Japan. A brief overview of the most important messages.
Facebook won’t be smashed. Two major competition lawsuits against Facebook have failed for the time being. The US trade authority FTC and almost all US states had sued. You waited too long to file a lawsuit against Facebook. The FTC’s lawsuit has other flaws but could be reintroduced.
In El Salvador it will nobody forced to accept Bitcoin as a means of payment. El Salvador does not have its own currency. A new law makes the crypto currency the official means of payment there. Now it will be changed before it comes into force in order to avoid the Bitcoin compulsion in El Salvador. The president of the country expects blooming landscapes through Bitcoin.
In Japan, a shareholder revolt at Toshiba hit the headlines: Toshiba board chairman Osamu Nagayama is surprisingly dismissed been. This is very unusual in Japan. But the company is in a crisis and had to raise money abroad. This brought in foreign shareholders who do not comply as one is used to in Japan.
Do you have yourself to the German Federal Data Protection Commissioner, between June 9th and 18th? Then your message has probably been destroyed. You should send them again.
Out of concern for the strong government surveillance in the UK the EU Parliament has spoken out against data export to the Kingdom. The EU Commission still allows data to be exported to Great Britain.
Also important:
- AMD’s fastest desktop processor with AM4 socket is now readily available. The street prices of the Ryzen 9 have fallen below the manufacturer’s recommendation.
- When it comes to supercomputers, AMD is also turning it up. Perlmutter, an HPE / Cray system with AMD Epyc 7763 “Milan” (Zen 3) and Nvidia A100, has the 5th place in the with 64.6 PFlops List of supercomputers conquered.
- The tax on mobile data transmission planned in Pakistan is not coming. Instead the government collects from chatterboxes: Telephone calls over five minutes should be penalized with a tax.
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