Senator Rand Paul Warns the US Has Similar Statutes to Emergencies Act in Canada
Feb24

Senator Rand Paul Warns the US Has Similar Statutes to Emergencies Act in Canada

U.S. Senator Rand Paul says “statutes that allow presidents or heads of state to invoke emergencies are very, very dangerous.” Commenting on Canada’s Emergencies Act invoked by the Trudeau government, the senator warned, “We have the same sort of statutes here.” Senator Rand Paul Warns of Emergency Act in the US U.S. Senator Rand Paul warned of statutes in the U.S. similar to the Emergencies Act invoked by Canadian Prime Minister...

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EU Members Want to Task New AML Watchdog With Crypto Oversight, Report Unveils
Feb24

EU Members Want to Task New AML Watchdog With Crypto Oversight, Report Unveils

A group of EU nations have reportedly been lobbying to entrust oversight of the crypto space to a new anti-money laundering (AML) agency. Behind the move are concerns that companies dealing with digital assets can be engaged in the processing of illicit funds. Germany Leads Push to Place Crypto Firms Under EU Anti-Money Laundering Supervision Several EU member states, led by Germany, have been urging the European Union to grant a...

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TVAddons’ Adam Lackman Admits TV Show Piracy, Agrees to Pay US$19.5m
Feb24

TVAddons’ Adam Lackman Admits TV Show Piracy, Agrees to Pay US$19.5m

Mid-June 2017 and in the wake of a lawsuit filed in the United States by broadcaster DISH Network, TVAddons – the largest third-party Kodi add-on repository at the time – disappeared from the Internet. All signs pointed to the events being connected but by August 2017, a bigger picture was emerging. On June 2, 2017, a coalition of Canadian telecoms giants including Bell Canada, Bell ExpressVu, Bell Media, Videotron, Groupe TVA, Rogers...

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Reddit Banned 2,625 Subreddits For Excessive Copyright Infringement in 2021
Feb24

Reddit Banned 2,625 Subreddits For Excessive Copyright Infringement in 2021

As one of the more popular user-submitted content sites on the internet today, Reddit and its community moderators have to work hard to keep the platform in order. In 2021, Reddit’s users created nearly 5.8 billion posts, comments, private messages and chats across the platform, with 297,161,752 later being removed by moderators (around 175.8k), removed by site admins (108.6K), and the authors themselves (12.6K). Content can be...

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Scan documents and old photos on Linux with Skanlite
Feb24

Scan documents and old photos on Linux with Skanlite

Although the world has mostly gone digital now, there are still times when you just have to print a form, sign it, and scan it back in. Sometimes, I find that a snapshot on my phone suffices, but some industries require a better copy than a hasty snapshot, and so a flatbed scanner is necessary. The KDE project provides an application called Skanlite that helps you import documents scanned on a flatbed, or even a tethered camera....

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