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Will Knight Business 08.30.2021 07:00 AM The $150 Million Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive ASML’s next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can keep shrinking for years to come. Save this story for later. Each machine is roughly the size of a bus. Shipping their components requires 40 freight containers, th...

Credit: Sophie Morse for WBUR Following our investigation, Massachusetts lawmakers are calling for changes to the state’s civil asset forfeiture system, which allowed one top prosecutor to keep people’s money for years, even when they weren’t charged with a crime. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights ...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) passed the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) on Friday the 20th of August 2021. The new privacy regime strengthens the protection around the use and collection of personal data and introduces a new requirement for user consent. The PIPL, closely resembling the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, prevents the personal data of PRC n...

By Samah Assad, Chris Hacker, Brad Edwards CHICAGO (CBS) — Two bills that strengthen privacy protections for sexual assault victims in Illinois were signed into law Friday. READ MORE: The legislation was prompted by a months-long CBS 2 investigation that found the personal identifiers of child sexual assault victims – names, addresses, phone numbers and more – were visible in publicly-availa...

Sidney Fussell Security 08.27.2021 06:19 PM An Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Across the US New figures from Google show a tenfold increase in the requests from law enforcement, which target anyone who happened to be in a given location at a specified time. Save this story for later. In California, geofence warrant requests leaped from 209 in 2018 to more than 1,900 two year...

According to data from Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor’s annual Staffing Ratio Survey, diversity and inclusion (D&I) roles within law firms saw the biggest growth in investment in 2020. The growth was seen in many law firms investing in C-level, full-time titles. What is interesting is that the growth only came from 52% of the law firms participating in the survey, and this has remained pret...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. After months of drama and political resistance, the curtain has lowered on Democratic attempts to stave off a far-reaching rewrite of the state’s voting laws coveted by Republicans seeking to retain their hold on power in a changing Texas. One week after finally regaining enough member...

A gun surrendered in Mexico. (AP) Civilian gun ownership is permitted in Brazil. To own a firearm, citizens must be at least 25 years old and register the weapon with the Federal Police. Only handguns and semiautomatics are authorized; assault weapons are illegal for civilians. Gun permits cost $26 and must be renewed every ten years, according to 2019 legislation. Penalties for illegal firea...

SHANGHAI, Aug 27 (Reuters) - China is establishing new regulatory pillars for its giant Internet industry, but a new data security law and other rules are ambiguous in ways that leave companies fearful they may accidentally cross a line, lawyers say. The data security law, which goes into effect on Sept. 1, requires all companies in China to classify the data they handle into several categori...

A new program through the Department of Veterans Affairs aims to connect service dogs in training with veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder. The effort was years in the making and became a reality when President Biden signed the Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers (PAWS) for Veterans Therapy Act into law on Wednesday during a ceremony attended by a bipartisan group of lawmake...