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Plattsburgh, NY voted to place an 18-month moratorium on new commercial cryptocurrency mines in the city on Thursday. Here’s why, and what comes next for cities that have had a Bitcoin gold rush. Continue reading The City That Banned Bitcoin Mining
New York City’s L train carries about 400,000 passengers a day, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn and bringing passengers along 14th Street, under the East River, and through the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Bushwick, Ridgewood, Brownsville, and Canarsie. About 225,000 of these passengers pass through the Canarsie Tunnel, a two-tube cast iron rail tunnel built below the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn in 1924. Like many other New York City road and subway tunnels, the Canarsie Tunnel was badly damaged when Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge inundated the tubes with million of gallons of salt water. Six years later, the impending closure …read more
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Plattsburgh is worried about Bitcoin’s energy consumption. Continue reading A Small American Town Wants to Put a Moratorium on Bitcoin Mining
This week, senior executives from more than 3,000 banks, insurers and other financial services companies doing business in New York will have to personally certify that their computer networks are protected by a cybersecurity program appropriate for their organization’s risk profile. The certification, imposed by the state’s banking regulator as part of its state cybersecurity rules, is the first in a slew of new requirements that will come into effect this year in New York — one of the leading centers of the global banking system. The requirement for personal certification is being compared to the post-Enron Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance reforms that upended boardrooms across the country. The so-called SOX regulations require one of the company’s top executives to sign off on the integrity and accuracy of its financial information. In the same way, attorney Craig Newman told CyberScoop, the new regulations from New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) […]
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Douglas Schifter killed himself in front of City Hall this week. Continue reading Before He Died, a New York Taxi Driver Wrote About How the Gig Economy Ruined His Life
This is the first of what is expected to be multiple lawsuits challenging the agency’s vote last year. Continue reading 22 States Are Suing the FCC For Repealing Net Neutrality
Pilot Fiber brings high speed internet to other small businesses. Continue reading This High School Dropout Is Lighting up NYC’s Dark Fiber
The city says it’s arrested more than 4,000 people thanks to facial recognition – but the technology and its implementation remain problematic Continue reading Facial recognition: how many rogue drivers has it stopped in New York?
Elon has entered the chat. Continue reading Transportation Expert on NYC-DC Hyperloop: ‘Verbal Approval Is Meaningless’
There have been reports of higher than normal firefly populations, but it’s probably fine. Continue reading Why Are We Seeing So Many Fireflies in New York This Year?