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Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla unite to ban Kazakhstan's citizen-tracking certificate

TechSpot

The certificate reportedly allowed the Kazakhstan government to intercept and decrypt HTTPS traffic – essentially monitoring citizens' Internet usage. The government claimed that the certificates were being used as part of a cybersecurity training exercise.

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Why savvy investors should focus on Kazakhstan (and other frontier markets)

The Next Web

You’d need to know that the government was primarily one ethnic group, but immigrants with different languages, customs, and religions were arriving in that country, at unprecedented levels, crowding the cities and looking for jobs.

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Apple’s privacy-focused Private Relay feature isn’t coming to China

The Verge

Other countries where Private Relay won’t be available include: Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines. The previous year, Apple removed several major VPN apps from its App Store in China in response to local regulations requiring VPN providers to have a government license.

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What we know about China’s cryptocurrency crackdown

The Verge

While we haven’t seen any reports of China flat-out outlawing cryptocurrencies, the government started issuing warnings about trading and mining cryptocurrencies in May, and told the country’s financial giants they would have to stop dealing in crypto. Graph: University of Cambridge.

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Some things Jeff Bezos can do with his $193 billion

The Verge

But you’ll notice that even though Bezos has nation-state wealth — his personal fortune ranks between the 2019 GDP of New Zealand at $206 billion and Kazakhstan at $181 billion, according to World Bank data — it pales beside what the US is willing to budget for war. Think of the stunts. 8th’s close). Okay — prove it.

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Ellen MacArthur Foundation CEO: “Eliminating waste on our streets and in our oceans is a nonpartisan issue.”

Fast Company Tech

These moves and many others come as President Donald Trump and his appointees seek to eliminate federal government programs that tackle global warming. If you are looking at governments that are perhaps more protectionist, who are asking, How do I help and protect our own economy? of materials in 2018.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

As you may know, the government has been tightening regulations associated with deep synthesis technologies (DST) and generative AI services, including ChatGPT. May 25, 2023 ChatGPT app is now available in 11 more countries OpenAI announced in a tweet that the ChatGPT mobile app is now available on iOS in the U.S.,

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