Even when the difference is (one more) zero, bad things can happen.
Texas ATM
mistakenly dispenses $100 bills instead of $10s
An ATM in the Houston area has been shut down and
was temporarily guarded by law officers after mistakenly dispensing
$100 bills instead of $10s and word of the glitch got out on social
media.
… A bank statement Monday says a vendor
incorrectly loaded $100 bills in place of $10 bills. Bank of America
also says customers will be able to keep the additional dispensed
money.
Russia is taking bits of the GDPR. Not the
Privacy bits, but the “fine based on revenue” bit.
Russia
opens civil case against Google over search results
Russia has launched a civil case against Google,
accusing it of failing to comply with a legal requirement to remove
certain entries from its search results, the country’s
communications watchdog said on Monday.
… It said Google had not joined a state
registry that lists banned websites that Moscow believes contain
illegal information and was therefore in breach of the law.
… Three sources familiar with the matter told
Reuters on Monday that Russia planned to impose stiffer fines on
technology firms that fail to comply with Russian laws.
The plans for harsher fines are contained in a
consultation document prepared by the administration of President
Vladimir Putin and sent to industry players for feedback.
The legislation, if it goes ahead, would hit
global tech giants such as Facebook and Google, which -- if found to
have breached rules - could face fines equal to 1
percent of their annual revenue in Russia, according to
the sources.
A student backgrounder infographic. (Right Click,
Save Image As)
Over on MassPrivateI, Joe Cadillic has
posted a depressing infographic
from SecurityBaron
that we should look at.
Perspective.
Why
American auto companies no longer want to sell actual cars
… The Big Three automakers — which includes
GM, along with Ford and Fiat Chrysler — are all moving toward
larger vehicles in the U.S. because they bring larger profits. And
to help the growing trend of SUV and pickup sales, gas prices are
low.
“You know, carmakers always say they build what
people want. But they never mention the fact that they spend billions
to tell them what they want," Dan Neil, an automotive columnist
for the Wall Street Journal, told
Marketplace earlier this year.
Ford
Ford announced earlier
this year that it plans to stop selling most of the cars it
manufactures, and will
"transition" to only two vehicles in North America: its
Mustang and a new Focus Active crossover set to come out next year.
General Motors
GM said that it will
discontinue U.S. production of the Chevrolet Volt, Cruze and Impala,
along with the Buick LaCrosse, the Cadillac XTS and the Cadillac CT6,
which has only been on sale in the U.S. since 2016. (However,
production
and sales of the CT6 will continue in China.)
Fiat Chrysler
Fiat Chrysler already
announced plans to end its car production in the U.S. back in 2016.
It ceased the
production of its Chrysler 200 and Dodge Dart cars, the only two cars
it made in the U.S., with the goal of focusing on pickups and SUVs
for its
Ram and Jeep brands.
Always something new to learn.
Amazon
makes its machine learning courses available for free
Amazon announced today that it’s making its
range of machine learning courses available to all developers signed
up to its AWS platform for free.
… Aside from this course for folks interested
in ML, Amazon also released a tool last year called Sagemaker
to help developers build and deploy machine learning applications
more easily.
Looking for more? Amazon’s cloud competitor,
Google, partnered with Coursera to launch a
free crash course and a
paid specialization course on machine learning recently.
Microsoft also has a
similar paid program to train developers on the topic.
You can check out all of Amazon’s machine
learning courses here.
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