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CBDC Initiatives Advance in Colombia, Hong Kong; DOJ Charges Defendants in Mt. Gox Hack, BTC-e; CFTC Wins Ooki DAO Case; Crypto Hacks Continue
CBDC Initiatives Advance in Colombia and Hong Kong – According to a recent press release, a major U.S. fintech company and “leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions” has announced a collaboration with Colombia’s Central Bank to explore blockchain technology use cases that leverage the fintech company’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) platform and its…
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Texas Joins the Privacy Party
2023 has brought several states into the privacy limelight. On June 18, Governor Abbott signed the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”) into law, making the Lone Star state the eleventh in the U.S. to pass a comprehensive data privacy and security law. The Act provides Texas consumers the ability to submit requests to…
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Professional Responsibility Considerations in AI for eDiscovery: Competence, Confidentiality, Privacy and Ownership
Use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools in eDiscovery creates new opportunities for attorneys. By extracting, analyzing, and applying information from large data sets, AI tools can provide new insights, systematize processes, speed time to resolution, and reduce costs. A notable example is technology-assisted review (“TAR”), a process that makes use of machine learning to prioritize…
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Russia Presses Attack in East as Ukraine Pushes South to Recapture Territory
Russian forces are trying to seize more land in eastern Ukraine even as they fend off a Kyiv’s counteroffensive, portending a long fight ahead, officials and military experts said.
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Freed Ukrainian P.O.W.s Report Abuses in Russian Captivity
Ukrainian captives released in prisoner exchanges say that beatings were common, and that they suffered from woefully inadequate health care and food.
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Andrew Tate Indicted on Human Trafficking Charges in Romania
Prosecutors in the country announced an indictment against the antagonistic online personality known for his misogynistic remarks. He had been under house arrest outside Bucharest.
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Industry Leaders Had ‘Significant Concerns’ About Titanic Tourist Sub
The chief executive of the submersible’s operator was among the five people now identified as missing in a vast section of the North Atlantic. The others include a French explorer, a businessman and his 19-year-old son.
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Palestinian Gunmen Kill 4 Israeli Civilians in Occupied West Bank
Two Hamas members carried out the attack outside Eli, a settlement in the northern West Bank, before being shot dead themselves.
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The Stroll
Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s “The Stroll” is a riveting documentary about transgender women of color during the 1990s and early 2000s engaging in sex work in an area known as The Stroll in the Meatpacking District of lower Manhattan. It is a story of despair, sisterhood, and triumph. From the start, this film reveals…
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Welcome to Decoy Games
Ready, Set, Go! Imagine you are playing “Super Mario Kart”! Who do you picture playing alongside you, or even better, who do you picture building those games? If you were to tell five-year-old Jewel that she’d be producing a video game at a Black-owned game studio, she’d scream! I grew up an avid gamer and…
